Love for The Man in the Moon

I just wanted to show off the finished product!  For being as artistic as an aardvark, I’d have to say that I did pretty damn well this year! (At least I think aardvarks aren’t very artistic). 

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Pumpkin Love!

Jen and I took our annual trip out to the Sauvie Island Pumpkin Patch today!  As always, we had so much fun it was ridiculous.  As is tradition we stopped and downed at least four shots of espresso before heading over the bridge and the day began!

We always get there too early for the hayride so we ran around the petting zoo and the pyramid as soon as we got there and went a little picture happy.

With all the little kids about we decided not to wait for the hayride after all and started making our way out to the nicest looking part of the pumpkin patch we could find.  Now, if you have ever been around Jen and I in October, you know that we are very serious about the pumpkin selection process.  So it wasn’t a little amount of time that we spent walking up and down the rows and rows of pumpkins.  We had to drag out the good ones and set them up side-by-side and turn them every which way, and…

… we totally got distracted by this rad teenie frog we found…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and we had to compare the shape of each pumpkin to the design we wanted to carve on it, etc.  After all that we were finally able to pick out the perfect pumpkins!

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I Love Ten Ninjas

Monica easily won me over today.  She usually does.  

Immediately after I answered the phone she launched into a speech about how Sam Brown and rstevens (the creative geniuses of exploding dog and diesel sweeties) had decided to hold a Red Robot Pumpkin Carving Contest for Halloween this year.  

“I’m off this weekend, so I can swing by anytime and we can let the nerdiness ensue.”  

And oh did the nerdiness ensue.  We started at the grocery store to secure some dark ale and two huge round pumpkins.  Then after about an hour or so of searching the webcomics for just the right Red Robot to hack into our orange vegetables, we each grabbed a giant bowl and a giant knife and slashed away like mad.  Red Robot would be proud.  

Monica finished her Sam Brown rendition of the forlorn robot first:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And not too long after I finished creating the pixelated angry rstevens version:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then commenced with the pumpkin seed baking and took crazy fun pictures of the lit up robots to submit to Sam the next day.  All in all it was a pretty awesome night of apropo Red Robot gore.  

Cheers to webcomic nerds everywhere!

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