Note: this is a re-post from 2009 on my old blog.  It was such a memorable moment, it was worth posting again.

Have you ever seen a White Pumpkin before?  Or a BLUE Pumpkin?  Or a CREAMSICLE Pumpkin??? I never realized there were so many varieties.  I am so naive in pumpkin culture apparently. 

Maybe white pumpkins are actually gray because I’ve seen light gray and darker gray pumpkins.  But I think it’s more fun to pretend it is white...  

Here’s a pumpkin sketch I created in a journaling class I was taking:

Here’s the lot from our trip to the pumpkin patch:


And the Creamsicle pumpkin, I absolutely fell in love with it and bought specifically to paint a memorable watercolor painting of it..... 


but before it could be painted, it met a tragic end late on Halloween night.....

Pranksters???  Evil doers??? 

Nope - my own husband and grade school son!  They were out for BB target practice with a Daisy Red Ryder “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out” gun and mistakenly grabbed the WRONG pumpkin.  It seems the nuances of the shades of orange were not apparent to their untrained artistic eyes. 

Imagine my horror.

And their shame. 

And then the giggles afterward.

Is there a pumpkin abuse hotline?!?!?
 


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Kathy link
11/17/2011 9:22am

Oh, your poor pumpkin! I can easily imagine this happening in my household, too, though. At least you got a good story out of it!

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Timaree link
11/17/2011 10:43am

Oh my, that would have been upsetting and comical for sure. At least you have a photo for painting it with.

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Teresa link
11/17/2011 6:17pm

Oh no! Your luscious pumpkin! Love the color of it.

Enjoyed your post.. sketch is lovely!

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Sue Pownall link
11/22/2011 2:56am

sorry I had to laugh at its demise. Love your old journal page.

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