Pumpkin Carving Weekend

October 21st through 23rd, 2011

Lake Lucerne
Rain! It rained last week! The lake is 1.25 inches deeper than the weekend before.
Lake Lucerne
The weather on Saturday was fantastic. Blue skies and a light breeze made for some good (mostly good) golf during the afternoon, but that was just a sunny distraction, for we were primarily up here to put knife to vegetable.
Lake Lucerne
Most were finished by 8:00 PM
Lake Lucerne
After the carving, they were put outside and candled.
Lake Lucerne
The bigger ones required two candles to light properly. We need more tea lights next year.
Lake Lucerne
After the carving flowed into the bar night, an early sighting of the Bailey's Comet was noted. The night/early morning almost ended in woe as non-carving ne'er-do-wells demanded strange drinks be culled from the bar's blue book. The "Pink Panther" wasn't as ghastly as I remembered.
Lake Lucerne
The frost was off the pumpkins by the time we got going on Sunday.
Lake Lucerne
After shutting down the water, packing up and visiting the dump with gifts of pumpkin guts and old copies of the Beacon, the last thing to be done was to batten down the pumpkin for winter. As an after thought, we surgically added a solar powered pathmarker light to the battened. The patient survived the procedure in that he was no more dead afterwards. Three eagles were soaring over the north end of the lake as we headed home early Sunday afternoon. A short time after the Packers won (about 4 hours after they Badgered up the first half), the webcam was checked to see if the light worked. It was pretty funny.


-Nemo kissed a girl, liked it.