Pumpkin Carving

This past weekend my daughter and I carved a pumpkin for Halloween. It was pretty cool, but of course we had to pick a pretty hard pattern to use for the pumpkin. There were several close calls, but the end result was pretty cool. I thought for sure we would have "the great pumpkin tragedy" of 2005, but two hours later we had a perfectly carved pumpkin. This has been a tradition for my daughter and I over the past three years. I think she really enjoys the carving and hopefully this will be another memory to add to her "old man" memories.

The part my daughter likes the most is pulling out the seeds and we usually bake them as a special treat. This year the pumpkin we picked was really freaky. It was sorta dried out and we discovered the seeds were sprouting inside the pumpkin. The picture above shows how long some of the sprouts grew. It appears around four of five inches on one of the sprouts. We decided that this year we should hold off on the seed baking. Freaky stuff indeed.

On a side note totally unrelated to pumpkin carving...

Do you think stupid people realize they are stupid? Why is it that everyone thinks they are intelligent when they are obviously not intelligent at all? I met some people lately that thought they were extremely smart (not somewhat smart, but genius intelligence). In reality, they were dumb as dirt. Not that I am Mensa material, but I am somewhat intelligent. I truly believe these people thought they were smarter than me.

Hold on... maybe I am one of these people that think they are smart when they really are not. Wouldn't that be ironic if I am creating this post about these type of people and I am actually one of these people? Oh man, my head is starting to hurt.