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1,725-Pound Pumpkin Breaks World Record

With Halloween around the corner, a couple from Ohio has just been awarded top honors in a pumpkin-growing contest with a giant pumpkin weighing in at 1,725 pounds. Christy Harp, and his husband Nick, of Jackson...

Pumpkins in April

As oddly placed it was, it was there. As you walked by, you where compiled to stop and stare.  How absurd, one would think.  But in mere moments you would be on your away, forgetting the bizarreness of the...

A study in pumpkin pie

We start off in this examination of pumpkin pie with a hard truth.  Most U.S.  pumpkin pie is a lie."An interesting fact is that most canned 'pumpkin' is actually hubbard squash. Hubbard squash has the...

How to have a 'Green' Halloween

Halloween, October 31, is only weeks away, and as you look for your perfect costume and figure out your plans, take a second to think about how what you are doing is having an impact on the Environment around you....

Halloween Pumpkin Designs Taken To Whole New Levels

There used to a time when a half-hearted pumpkin carving, featuring two eyes and a toothless grin, was enough to get the job done. Nowadays it takes a lot more creativity to impress the neighbors. It seems that...

Kids legally play with Uzi's at Machine Gun Shoot event, 1 shoots himself

Kids are allowed to legally participate in machine gun shoots in the USA.  In October, pumpkins and other targets are set up for kids, and Uzi's are one firearm they can play with. One 8-year old boy died...

PAMPERED PUMPKIN PICKED as PLUMPEST of them all

"HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Thad Starr's giant pumpkin really began putting on weight in August , a lot of weight.The pumpkin gained about 30 pounds a day on its way to victory Monday at the Safeway World...

Gentleman, start your pumpkins!

October 12th, 2008 marked the 10th Annual Pumpkin Regatta in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. It all started with Howard Dill (R.I.P) whose giant pumpkins have made it into the Guinness World Record Books four times!...

Good grief! Gigantic gourd goes missing in Mich.

"Good grief! Gigantic gourd goes missing in Mich. The Associated Press GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A...

Farmer carves out Calif. record with huge pumpkin

"Farmer carves out Calif. record with huge pumpkin""ELK GROVE, Calif. - That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds.Jake van...

Procreation Vacations - Good for couples or Babies?

"When Lucinda Hughes heard she would have to down sea moss elixirs while vacationing in the Bahamas, she was sure it would make her sick. Three months later, Hughes is very sick - every morning - and expecting her first baby in April. As Hughes and her husband Kemry lounged...

Pumpkin Pie: It Rocks

Every year around this time I get super excited about pumpkin pie, I love pumpkin pie, but then I eat too much pumpkin pie which results in my love dying a little.  Like a one night stand gone terribly wrong...

The First Thanksgiving

"In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is now known as the first Thanksgiving. While cooking methods and table etiquette have changed as the holiday has evolved, the meal is still consumed today with the same spirit of...

A Holiday Recipe for Making Memories

by:  John E. Carey"Life is composed of accidental moments. They are glimpses of who we are and where we live. I guess this story has to start with the fact that I am married into a very beautiful and loving...

Off-Beat: Experts try to help deer with head stuck in plastic pumpkin

"CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A plastic jack-o'-lantern meant for collecting Halloween candy is threatening the life of a small, immature deer that calls a gated community home.  The fake pumpkin has been stuck on the animal's snout for at least several days. It...

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