Happy Halloween!

 

                                 Trick or Treat!

 

 

Don't Eat Too Much Candy.

           What do you do with leftover pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns after Halloween?  Put them in your yard.  The color is a nice fall accent in your garden.  And soon, you'll notice a squirrel nosing about, looking for a snack. Chipmunks will also find it.  Birds, too, will enjoy the seeds.  In fact, the seeds and pumpkin guts in the picture above completely disappeared within two days, my porch was cleaned up by hungry birds.  I have also witnessed deer eating leftover jack-o-lanterns.  Once I lived in a city where the local zoo accepted leftover pumpkins -- as a treat for elephants.  If it isn't eaten,  a pumpkin will eventually decompose, providing food for insects. It would be such a waste to simply throw away a leftover pumpkin.