{"id":2431,"date":"2015-10-25T21:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T04:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2015-11-05T23:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:39:21","slug":"pumpkin-carving-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/pumpkin-carving-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Carving 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Leslie and I take Emma and Sarah to get pumpkins and we carve them together. Janie often goes with us, but not this year. She was OK being alone for a short while when we did our pumpkin hunting at the local Yakima Fruit Market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6340-Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2433\" src=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6340-Small-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6340 (Small)\" width=\"410\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>The girls are old enough to do most of the carving themselves. Emma\u2019s was a simple design, so she did it all herself. I consulted with her a little, but not much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6342-Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2434\" src=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6342-Small-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6342 (Small)\" width=\"389\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>Leslie worked a little more with Sarah, but Sarah still did most of it on her own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the final results!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6347-Small-e1445834182983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2435\" src=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_6347-Small-e1445834182983-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6347 (Small)\" width=\"328\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the pumpkin carving, we had a good dinner of slow cooker ham, homemade pea soup, honey-glazed carrots and potatoes au gratin.<\/p>\n<p>We missed having granddaughter Kathryn with us this year, since she is away at college. I hope she carves a pumpkin and sends us a picture, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn did carve a pumpkin and sent me a picture. Thanks Kathryn!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kathryns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2453\" src=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kathryns-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kathryns\" width=\"382\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kathryns-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kathryns.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-2431 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='2431' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-2431 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-2431 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='2431' data-nonce='ed2a85f0c2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-2431 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-2431 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, Leslie and I take Emma and Sarah to get pumpkins and we carve them together. Janie often goes with us, but not this year. She was OK being alone for a short while when we did our pumpkin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/pumpkin-carving-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}