Blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and 40 degrees. Time to take the outside Christmas decorations down and put away. There wasn't much to do - the 5' wreath hanging on the side of the house, a few strands of lights scattered in the boxwoods, and chopping up the Great Christmas Pumpkin.
Armed with my big kitchen knife, a shovel, trash bags, and a small garbage can, I set out to carve the giant pumpkin into pieces for trash pick up on Friday. The top of the pumpkin was rotting and mushy. I dug that out with a shovel and then chunked the rest of the pumpkin into large pieces. My hope that the pumpkin would last until Valentines Day so that it would twinkle in red lights wasn't meant to be.
I left a couple pumpkin pieces by the side of the house as some winter food for the deer and other little critters in the neighborhood. The rest are in the Rumpke trash bin (the bin is really heavy!) waiting for the truck with its hydraulic arm to toss it into the waste container.
The space where the pumpkin sat is empty. Time to look through the garden catalogs for flowers to fill that patch of dirt.
Wow, that pumpkin was huge! You had quite a job taking it apart.
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