This morning, we kept up our Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins. Our garden was very kind this year, giving us three pumpkins, one of which was large enough to fit some carving. Cubs provided the other carving pumpkin. It's a nice way to create some art, and since the darkness is very forgiving of mistakes, it usually turns out well no matter what.

We've found that using stencil templates is the way to go. Someone else takes care of most of the complicated decisions about how to make the outlines join, what to draw, etc. Laura chose to make a mini-aquarium, with a few free-swimming fish and seaweed, while I carved out a koi, many of which live in Laura's pond in Texas. They seemed to get along well together, so we took some pictures. We're already planning out next year's designs.