Pumpkins and Zombies, oh my!

Being the busy (read: procrastinating) people that we are, we did not get anything ready for Halloween ahead of time. It was not until I got home from work at 6:30pm on Friday that we decided that we just HAD to carve pumpkins. So out we went to Safeway.

Not a pumpkin in sight. Onward to Fry's.

Zilch. Surely Walmart would have them in stock?

No way. Nathan suggested the hardware store, so on we drove to Lowe's.

Nothing but artificial pine trees and inflatable snowmen as far as the eye could see.

In one last, forlorn attempt we wandered into Home Depot. And there, languishing in the darkened garden center, sat our prize:



We hurriedly chose our victims, as the store was closing in five minutes, and we rushed gleefully away with our (half price!) treasures.

The carnage was terrible. Pumpkins were brutally eviscerated, their guts strewn across the landscape and carried off by wild dogs.


What wasn't desecrated was picked over, roasted, and eaten. The husks were grotesquely carved into idols:

The pumpkins had their revenge, as the humans who murdered them were they themselves transformed into the walking dead the very next day: