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This year’s pumpkin crop.

I’ve been trying for years to grow a good crop of pumpkins, and this year’s the best yet. We picked 18 pumpkins, most of which are small and medium-sized. There are still three green pumpkins growing, and those look to be the biggest of the bunch. Each year, I do a bit better. This year, […]

Halloween Decorations 2021

It’s Halloween time again, and we have our Jack Skellington on the garage, added some animated lights above the garage, black light strips around the garage and front porch along with tape that lights up in black lights. We have a few motion detected decorations as well to scare the kids, but nothing too scary. […]

Say hello to Monster, Oscar, Imposter, and Carl

This year, I’m determined to get a good crop of pumpkins. Meet Monster, Oscar, Imposter, and Carl my pumpkin boxes protecting the seedlings from rabbits and other critters. I haven’t had great luck growing pumpkins in my yard due to all the great trees, so this year I asked my neighbor if I could utilize […]

2018 Halloween Pumpkins

This years Halloween pumpkins include a cat, OMG face, Spiderman, Harry Potter and a cat-a-corn (cat unicorn). This year we tried a few different techniques on a few of the pumpkins like scraping the outside of the pumpkin and not carving it all the way through. That’s how Spiderman’s web is done and Harry’s glasses. […]

Halloween Pumpkins – 2016 Edition

Here are our 2016 Halloween pumpkin carvings. On the top row we have two scary pumpkins. The first one is not carved all the way through, but rather scraped. On the bottom row we have a penguin, a cat, and the moon and stars. All pumpkins are lit with either rechargeable lights or battery operated […]

Picking our own pumpkins at Dimler’s Pumpkins in Waconia

For the past few years our family has gone out to Dimler’s pumpkins just outside of Waconia and picked our own pumpkins. It’s great because we get to walk through the pumpkin patch and pick out whatever pumpkins we want. Even better, they are only 3 for $12 $5 each and we usually pick the biggest […]