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Exhausted, but had a good day. I went up to look at the pumpkins with littleredhead and groundctrl, as I had mentioned was our plan, but Eor stayed home because he was too sick. (When I got home he was asleep, but had done almost all the dishes, and put away all the laundry he did yesterday - poor dear never seems to really take a day off.) So, since their car was full of building materials or something (they're building their house) I got to show off my mad sick lack of driving skills. Nobody was hurt. ;) (I don't know if I've ever run into anything, aside from the retaining wall when I was learning to drive, but I do scare people on a regular basis. And I was extra spacey today. Glad I didn't take any cold medicine.) Anyway, we did a lot of park and walk in, because the crowd around the pumpkin canon and trebuchet* was crazy, as was the crowd downtown. Supposedly there were 2,000 extra people in downtown Damariscotta today.

I thought there were not quite as many crazily impressive pumpkins this year as there have been in years past, though certainly there were many good ones. However, the one done by groundctrl's brother-in-law was pretty great (I hope he posts pics soon!) and the pumpkin canon ripped up a small pickup truck rather impressively. :)

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*My dictionary does not know the word trebuchet and tried to offer me Bucharest instead. Seriously? That's the closest thing? I'm teaching my dictionary, now. Also teaching it Damariscotta.

Oh!

I received, just before we left for Ohio (I think I saw it after I had turned off my computer) a postcard from kryptyd, from Bilbao! :D That's going up in my cube at work, tomorrow. ;)

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But, because I keep looking back at them and wanting to post about them, here's a gallery of pics of the Pumpkinfest which I went to with littleredhead and groundctrl. All pumpkins all the time! I love the first one, of which there are about five pictures - it was done by groundctrl's brother-in-law, and I do think it's one of the best.

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/1406502/1/Pumpkinfest%202011?h=395ecc#/

The green one with the marbles nestled in it is pretty cool - the person who made it does pea-pod themed jewelry. The one which is all hollowed out with the loons and turtles on it was amazing in real life, though it's possibly hard to see just how amazing in a pic. Pumpkin Buddha was a little on the creepy side. :)