The "Everlasting" Pumpkin

So on Halloween my daughter bought an adorable little pumpkin for decoration and she brought it to my house later and said, “Hey, it has a recipe on the bottom of it for pumpkin pie.  Maybe you can make one for Thanksgiving!”

Helloooo………

Do you know me AT ALL?

That is just never gonna happen.

Anyway, a lovely and thoughtful gift nevertheless and I patted her little head and said, “Yes dear, maybe I could do that!” 

(wink, wink)

So Thanksgiving came and went and there the pumpkin sat.

On my shelf….

In all its Autumny glory….

As you knew was inevitable, the pie idea never came to “fruition” (get it?) and the pumpkin remained.

Steadfast.

Unchanged.

Unspoiled.

Incredible!

Was this some sort of vegetable oracle?

How is this possible?

So I decided to make the best of the magical fruit and fashion a snowman from it for Christmas.

I decided I would paint it white and make it a tiny black stove pipe hat and give it a carrot for a nose.

What an adorable Martha Stewarty idea!

I went to the store and bought the paint.………

And that’s as far as it got.

Because I have the attention span of a gnat.

Whatever…….

So time rolled on and Christmas came and went as well as New Years Day and still the “Pamper’d” pumpkin lives on. 

(Yes, that spelling is correct, direct from the label!)

I expect one morning to come out and find a pile of orange innards with a stem sticking out of the top of it like a science experiment gone bad. But so far, it remains unscathed and healthy.

Maybe I could call up one of those black and white tabloids and explain this phenomenon and they would send out a camera crew and I could pick up a few bucks.

I could be on the front page with the lady that married Bigfoot and was raising her babies in the back woods of Oregon. 

She home schooled them for obvious reasons.

As luck would have it, that would be the morning that my new puppy would decide to drag the oracle pumpkin off the shelf and use it for a chew toy.

Just to spite me.

All that would survive would be a gnarly piece of stem and a few pumpkin seeds which would show up later in the day…….

On my front lawn……

I won’t elaborate any further………

So as of right now, the pumpkin lives on.

I’m just trying to think if I could make it into a heart for Valentine's Day.

Then I would need red paint……

Nah......, too much trouble.

If I am patient and wait until Saint Patrick’s Day, I can probably fashion it into a shamrock…..

If the weather warms up, I probably won’t even have to paint it green.

………..I’m just sayin’