Paul was kind enough to save the pumpkin seeds and goo for me when he and Dante carved our Jack O'Lantern. I had every intention of cleaning and roasting the seeds, but our work and travel schedule has been prohibitive. Consequently, I have a bag full of rotting pumpkin goo in my fridge. Tonight, the pumpkin goo gets tossed in the garbage.
Luckily, I have a back up pumpkin. Actually, I have about 10 back up pumpkins.
As I have written before, Paul teaches Western Martial Arts (Historical European Sword Fighting) at our martial arts school, Fearless Fitness. Every year, he manages to acquire about 10 pumpkins after Halloween. He then lets his students practice cutting the pumpkins with swords. It is the one time of year they get to actually "cut" something with a weapon as typically, they use wooden swords called wasters to practice. As you can imagine, this day is looked forward to by all of our Western Martial Arts students.
I am looking forward to a second chance of being able to harvest pumpkin seeds, sans the goo.
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