(Almost) everyone loves pumpkin

I don't grow pumpkins but we always purchase one to decorate our front yard in the fall.  When Thanksgiving rolls around, my grandchildren help me smash the pumpkin on the driveway so we can use it for our holiday feast.

This year's pumpkin was huge.  I roasted two cups of pumpkin seeds and froze 15 cups of pumpkin puree to make pies for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I've read that pumpkin is a good food source for our sulcata tortoise so I set some aside for Mordecai.  He "said" it tastes fabulous.

I've also read that horses enjoy raw pumpkin as a treat so my granddaughter, Olivia, and I took some chunks of pumpkin to the barn for Lily.  Lily took one bite and spit it out on the ground.  The other horses more than happy to eat her pumpkin.

I made two big pumpkin pies for our Thanksgiving feast today.  The humans in our family will heap on the whipped cream and make short work of devouring them.

There is nothing more fun than a good pumpkin!