Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 27, 2019

PLEASE don’t do the same thing at Christmas, Janis. You don’t have the room.

I think Janis got suckered by an ad from the Pumpkin Growers Council.

The law of averages thrown for a loop…

So true Arlo. there are more important things to agonize over.

Nice grouping of three threes. Typical decorator magazine fare. :o)

Vaguely Jack-O-Lantern size orange pumpkins on special this week…. about 4 to 6 dollars in various places.

That size white pumpkins at Trader Joe’s $6.

All those different colors and larger sizes usually only found at a farm stand or pumpkin patch… at least $10 to $25 apiece around here.

Magazines can be expensive.

When I was a kid, only one of those — the round, orange one — would have been considered a “pumpkin”. Most of them would have been rejected as “squash” or “gourds”, and I suspect that genetically, that’s what they are.

What? They didn’t get their pumpkin(s) from Gene and family?

Well, they seem to have virtually forgotten the kids’ existence. We don’t even see them exchanging cards or phone calls on holidays.

hmmm… not a bad idea

Funny, Buckles did the same thing… Must be the trend this year.

Obviously reading the pumpkin sellers magazine

Too many potted plants for this to work.

What with all those pumpkins, they had better hire a Peter so they don’t all go to waste.

the farm we went to had all odd ugly pumpkins so we went to Walmart and got nice fat round ones for $3.28 each. Good for a Jack O Lantern

We’re making minions out of ours with acrylic paints and googly eyes with my great granddaughter today.

An equal opportunity pumpkin buyer.

We need to relate gourds to more traditional holidays. 4th of July. St. Patrick’s Day. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Etc.

who could afford to buy so many ugly pumpkins and what was the magazine idea?

What you can do with pillows, shoes, candles, soaps, and bath towels, you can do with pumpkins I guess. I imagine Arlo won’t be allowed to carve any of them into a jack-o-lantern.

I think Janice is out of her gourd.

They are all perfect!!! Enjoy the holidays.

The warts are a nice touch.