Hey! Is That Skull A Pansy? When Pumpkins Go Bad ....

It was a gorgeous October Sunday, a perfect day
for going to a country auction.  But we did not.

Instead, we decided to be grownups, and stay home.

Yes, it hurt.

But we don't need anything, and we know that even with

the best of "we'll just look" intentions, we'd come home

with a minivan full of someone else's old stuff.

Like this,

 or this,

 or this,

 or, this.

Instead, we puttered around the house, and took our first-ever trip to
Whole Foods.
(No pictures.  Too many wild-eyed well-heeled suburbanites wielding run-a-muck shopping carts.
Too dangerous to stop and snap; I'd have been mowed down.)

Whole Foods was interesting.  We spent about $50 on ... cheese.
Oh, and some olives.  And 2 jars of Rao's Marinara sauce.
Which were an amazingly good buy!

Daughter Anne shops at the Whole Foods near her apartment in Washington,
and says that there are always good buys to be found.  Well, she's wrong about the
pumpkin (see below), but she seems to be right about Whole Foods.

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Meanwhile, back at That Old House . . . 
a pumpkin that we brought home from the North Fork
of Long Island two weeks ago is looking a tad odd. 

It sits on the granite step outside the Sunroom doors, and as we were
leaving yesterday, I noticed that it had started to go bad.
Like ... really bad.

Like, Oh my gosh, is that the image of a skull? bad.

I sent a phone picture to my daughters; Anne thinks it looks like a
pansy blossom, but she went to a Renaissance Faire this weekend,
so that may explain the happy, la-la-la interpretation.

What do you think it looks like?
(If you answer "skull," you are right.  But you don't win anything.)

So, do you think I can sell this guy on eBay for a bajillion dollars
before he totally collapses in a pile of pumpkiny goo?

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From 2010.


And from 2012.


And from 2009, inside the house.

A lovely, crisp Fall day to you all.
Even if it is just in pictures.

Boo!

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-- Cass