Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 28, 2018

Jacks my name. Jack ’O. Lantern in full. Being carved is my game.

Oh My Gourd!

They are thicker and stronger for the punkin chunkin afterwards.

Wrong colour?

It’s The Grayt Pumpkin.

Those kind are hard to carve.

Purple’s the new orange.

but it’s purple

Everyone knows real pumpkins are orange. Why does she have to buy a purplish gray gourd and throw off the balance of the universe.

And the standard answer is……….to be different from the rest of the crowd. Lol

A lesser strip would have had Arlo say something.

Janis says Arlo needs to get out of his comfort zone as she sits with her face stuck in her phone as usual

It’s right up there with that ugly turquoise and orange Christmas wrapping paper at Target….

or completely-blue-decorated trees.

About 25 years ago when I was working retail, somebody decided purple was a Halloween color….

our orange and black store decorations suddenly included purple bats and bows.

Now Trader Joe’s sells a rainbow of pumpkins….

I just saw stark white ones some place, so flat, about 3 feet wide and 6 inches tall, there was just about no room for a face on the side.

Is tradition that horrid?

But as I recall,Janis is always the abstract modernist of the family.

Not me!

She must be out of her gourd!

I think it’s supposed to be teal colored……for homes that give out non food treats for allergic children.

Arlo is speechless!

She’s so wrong… It does hurt… I’ve tried already… :D

That’s what Arlo said to her last night

Well, I’ll say this about a grey pumpkin – it’s going to make some awful looking pies.

Sacrilege!

I agree with Arlo this time.

Well then Janis, YOU carve it!

I’ve had fun carving different color pumpkins.

I’m quite fond of the original orange but do like all of the different colored gourds being offered now.

I’ll get out of my comfort zone once in a blue moon.

Whats with the blue pumpkin?

I’ve got a very purple pumpkin, custom made. I was with a group preaching the virtues of safe boating at the Illinois State Fair a few years back and discovered a group from SIU demonstrating glass blowing. After picking up a couple of pieces (they were only taking donations for supplies), I saw them using a mold to make pumpkins, upon which discovery I asked if they could make a purple glass pumpkin. They said the had not tried it, but would later in the day, and said to come back the next day as it would need to sit in the annealing oven overnight. They had actually made three, one cracked, one had a slightly rough base, and I made a handsome donation for the other one. Still have it. They did ‘sell’ the other one, too and decided to put purple pumpkins in their repertoire. 8^)

A pumpkin for Luddie.

It’s a pumpkin from one of those 1940’s films.

It’s blue, actually. Blue pumpkins do exist, but I don’t think gray ones do.

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