It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!
By Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (118365)
Gainesville, Florida
October 31, 2016 8:02pm CST
As if a dozen pumpkins around my front yard weren't enough, I found this beauty on the way home from work today, and I just had to have it! The only problem is, I didn't have time to carve it before I got dressed up to go out trick-or-treating, so I now have a big, giant un-carved pumpkin sitting at my front door! lol
How about you? Did you carve a pumpkin for Halloween?
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
1 Nov 16
No pumpkin carving for me this year 
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
1 Nov 16
@moffittjc Lol
I carved a pumpkin a few years ago with my parents lol!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@infatuatedbby One can never be too old to carve a pumpkin!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
What is wrong with everybody this year??? Nobody wanted to carve a pumpkin! That's half the fun of Halloween! I am so disappointed in you! I'm going to have to march right out there and give you a piece of my mind! lol
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
1 Nov 16
I bought one pumpkin this year. Trust me, it was hard for me not to buy more. I usually buy at least 3! I didn't bother carving the pumpkin. I will eventually take out the seeds to roast them.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
1 Nov 16
@moffittjc I hope you are roasting the seeds. They are very high in fiber.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
I usually only buy one, but I went a little crazy this year and bought a dozen. Well, with today's big-boy purchase, that makes it a baker's dozen! Perfect number for Halloween!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@ElusiveButterfly I haven't yet, but I probably will soon. I usually roast seeds every year.
@LadyDuck (457298)
• Switzerland
1 Nov 16
@moffittjc Nobody decorates here, so I avoided to put decorations outside that would have made people skeptical.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@LadyDuck I would have put out decorations just to be different from everyone else! Because I'm a rebel like that! haha
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
That was nice that you celebrated in your own little special way! I know several people who decorate the inside of their home with Halloween decorations, while others decorate the outside of their home.
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@jaboUK (64362)
• United Kingdom
1 Nov 16
@moffittjc Yes, I believe that it is getting more popular, but it hasn't really reached my corner of the UK yet.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@jaboUK Let me know what corner of the UK you live in, and I'll make sure to bring trick-or-treaters to see you next Halloween! haha
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
From what I hear from some of your fellow countrymen, Halloween is slowly gaining in popularity. I have a friend in another European country who said this year was the first time in her life she went trick-or-treating, as Halloween is starting to get more popular.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
I love pumpkin pie, but I have no idea how to make it from a real pumpkin! But I have roasted the seeds before!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@just4him Maybe I can talk the kids into helping me and we can make a fun afternoon out of it!
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@just4him (305417)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
1 Nov 16
@moffittjc Time to find a cookbook or go online for recipes on how to make it. Sounds like you have enough pumpkin for it.
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@JESSY3236 (18886)
• United States
1 Nov 16
I used to, but I don't do it anymore because of the mess.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
The mess is half the fun of carving a pumpkin and/or decorating your house!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Nov 16
@JESSY3236 I put a hay bale out on my front porch, and then set a skeleton on top of the hay bale, so when you walk up it looks like the skeleton is sitting on the hay.
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@JESSY3236 (18886)
• United States
2 Nov 16
@moffittjc I did have a little witch outside, but she kept falling down so I brought her in early. Also I had a glowing ghost (he don't glow anymore though), but either wind or something made him fall and he broke into two pieces. I do have a scarecrow wreath that is still on the door.
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@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
2 Nov 16
Didn't carve a pumpkin this past Halloween, perhaps next year.
That is an awesome find! What are you planning to do with it?
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@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
2 Nov 16
@moffittjc between the two, I'd prefer to do the first one! Messier, louder, and definitely more fun!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Nov 16
I'm thinking about stuffing it with fireworks and setting them off and blowing up the pumpkin! Or maybe throw it off the top of a tall building and watch it splatter on the ground below!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Nov 16
@allen0187 I like the way you think! Now, If I can just find my stash of fireworks leftover from the 4th of July....
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
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1 Nov 16
WOW that massive, No I didn't but my housemate did before she went off to work.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
Well, you'll have to ask your housemate to judge whose is bigger!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@kevin1877uk so you're admitting you took a peek at hers?
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
There are smaller pumpkins that are the size of squash, but pumpkins can come in all different shapes and sizes.
@pahak627 (4558)
• Philippines
1 Nov 16
@moffittjc So you also have squash over there. Do pumpkin and squash have the same taste?
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@pahak627 I've never eaten pumpkin except in pumpkin pie, so not sure if it is the same taste as squash.
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@rebelann (111073)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 19
Hmmm, well maybe one day I'll want to try it @moffittjc
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Dec 19
All you need is a knife and an imagination. How hard or how easy ti is would depend on how much imagination you have and how much creativity you want to put into your work.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Nov 16
Nope but I have a ceramic pumpkin in my window lol
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
Well, that still counts, ceramic or not!
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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1 Nov 16
Nope. That's a mahoosive specimen. Will you be eating lots of pumpkin soup and pie over the next few weeks?!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
I never really planned on making any pumpkin pies with the pumpkins afterward, I'll usually leave them sitting out through our Thanksgiving holiday (at the end of November), but I have a lot of pumpkins this year, so maybe I'll try making a pie or two!
@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
4 Nov 16
No we're in an apartment- but I did buy a little one for a decoration!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Nov 16
Well, then, we can just say your little one balanced out my big one! haha
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
4 Nov 16
@moffittjc I guess you won't be carving it now- just keep it hanging around until you have to get rid of it?
@thislittlepennyearns (58103)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
1 Nov 16
Nah we didn't go out this year. And we didn't do pumpkins either. What did you dress up as?
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
I can't believe you didn't go trick-or-treating!!! Why not?
I dressed up as a zombie, wearing a YOLO shirt. See if you can appreciate the irony in that!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Nov 16
@thislittlepennyearns I hate them too, but it was perfectly fitting for the occasion.
@thislittlepennyearns (58103)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
1 Nov 16
@moffittjc Kiddo is with her grandparents tonight so we really didn't have a reason to go.
I hate the yolo shirts but at least yours is funny.
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@GardenGerty (157481)
• United States
2 Nov 16
I did not even buy any this year. I think a giant uncarved pumpkin would look great.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Nov 16
It does look pretty cool sitting on my front porch, surrounded by all the baby pumpkins I have all around it!
@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Nov 16
It was a very heavy pumpkin! I hurt my shoulder holding it like I did in the picture!
@xstitcher (30246)
• Petaluma, California
2 Nov 16
I like to get the seeds out of a pumpkin and roast them.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Nov 16
I have no idea how much it weighs, but it was pretty heavy! I have no plans to cook it, but if someone else wants it to make pumpkin pie or bread, I will gladly give it to them.
@JamesHxstatic (29233)
• Eugene, Oregon
4 Nov 16
We did not carve one this year and had a quiet, rainy evening.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Nov 16
A rainy evening is a perfect evening for Halloween...if you want to keep the trick-or-treaters away! lol
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