Beware the Night Life

November 7, 2009 @ 1:10 pm | Filed under: ,

Just one week ago, Jack was in his prime. Ruddy, round-cheeked, he had a cheerful grin for all the world.

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Then he went out one night and got lit up.

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Now, sad to say, that once sprightly youth has aged before his time. He spends his days on the porch, cantankerously frowning at passersby.

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Let this be a lesson to you, children.


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  1. Kez says:

    lol!

  2. Charlotte (Matilda) says:

    You play with fire and you’re gonna get burned (and moldy)!

  3. April says:

    I thought the same thing about our poor Jack this afternoon. He was also growing a lovely mold inside, so he got tossed. I wish I’d have taken a picture. Our had a flat face that caved in on itself. Very sad.

  4. Tari says:

    Awesome carving job! We scraped our 2 poor Jacks off the front porch this morning – 10 days outside in Houston really does a Jack in!

  5. Laurie M says:

    at least yours doesn’t have the puddle of slime coming out of it… blech. and the mold inside. that was only wednesday.

  6. Penny in VT says:

    Ours became squirrel food almost instantly – they looked like jack o’lanterns that had been in battle.

    Love the bottom photo, very “granny clampett” . 🙂

  7. Ecki says:

    One year it was unseasonably warm and by Halloween the entire pumpkin was crawling with maggots! Now THAT was the scariest Halloween pumpkin ever!

  8. Melissa Wiley says:

    Maggots! How ghoulishly appropriate! :::shudder:::