A pumpkin story for fall

                                     My one pumpkin I grew this year




Mishaps at cooking or My Oh My Pumpkin Pie!

This week I read about Kim a fellow bloggers mishap of cooking her first turkey.  Well I remember yes way back when we lived in Wyoming in the 70’s and the first time I made a pumpkin pie from scratch. One of the nice things I can say about the home we lived in was the great soil and wonderful lilac bushes. The first year we lived there the grocery stores ran out of pumpkins so I was determined to grow a pumpkin so I would not be upset in the fall. Fall isn’t Fall without a pumpkin or two. I ended up with thirteen pumpkins and that was with a little plot of a garden! I was so happy so come October before the frost got my beautiful  pumpkins

 It can't even sit up!

 I picked them all . Now the exciting part making a pumpkin pie from scratch  I was going to use no can for my pie!   So I cut open my pumpkin and started scooping the bottom of the pumpkin thinking to myself  it doesn’t look like this when I buy a can of pumpkin at the store.So another pumpkin was opened up scooped and still another. I think I went thru most of my pumpkins.(I did make the pie crust from scratch) I looked at the pie pan and just thought well it’s going to rise when I put it in the oven. Oh yes I was that naive. I had been working all my young married life and didn’t have a clue how to bake anything unless it was out of a box.


So as I baked my pumpkin pie I was little disappointed when it was done and it had not risen. I told my husband and one of my new friends in Wyoming and they both couldn’t believe how I had made this pumpkin pie using pumpkin guts essentially. Everybody had a laugh and I was a little embarrassed so today I am harvesting my one pumpkin and thinking back at a young new mother who once had a garden with thirteen beautiful pumpkins and this year this is as good as I got for a pumpkin. Happy Sunday

 So sad!





                                My pumpkin is a Charlie Brown Pumpkin



 Wow that's some story Nana!