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Pumpkin, Anyone? floral leaves in the hole and call it pretty little home-grown pumpkin
in the Thurmont Community Show.
dessert.
My mother loves pumpkin butter I swear that thing wasn’t more than
on her toast. We’ve tasted pumpkin five inches in diameter, and I razzed
by Valerie Nusbaum ice cream, and I even made pumpkin him something awful for having the
soup one year for Thanksgiving nerve to enter it in the Show. I ate
dinner. I won’t do that again. It was my words when the darned thing
I always know when autumn is reading this because I haven’t seen a whole lot of effort for very little won “Best Pumpkin.”
just around the corner because I any muffins yet this year, and I’ve taste, or else I did something wrong. Pumpkins come in all colors,
start seeing television and online lost a few pounds. My mother-in- My friend, Teresa, buys a large shapes, and sizes, and they really
ads for products featuring the law loved pumpkin pie, but she pumpkin for Halloween, and after do look pretty on our porches and
delicious flavor of pumpkin spice. wouldn’t eat any pie that wasn’t she and her kids make a jack-o- tables. Whatever your pumpkin
There are coffees and teas and Mrs. Smith’s. She liked what she lantern, Teresa roasts the seeds. preference is, I hope you find
pancakes galore. The pancakes are liked, and we always served her She’s very talented. something you enjoy and celebrate
good, but I don’t drink coffee and I a Mrs. Smith’s pumpkin pie on Well, here’s the thing: I heard a this beautiful season.
don’t like flavored teas. Starbucks, Thanksgiving, unless some other news report on TV recently stating We always associate the month of
McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, and brand was on sale and then we hid that a lot of products advertising November with Thanksgiving, but
many other chains have jumped on the box. Pumpkin bread with raisins “pumpkin spice” flavoring actually let’s not forget Veterans Day. Randy
the pumpkin wagon. So has IHOP. and nuts is one of my brother’s contain no pumpkin at all. They and I sincerely thank all of you
I’ve tried pumpkin yogurt, favorite fall treats. And how could contain cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, Veterans and your families for your
pumpkin-flavored cereal, and I forget pumpkin whoopie pies? and a few other things, but there’s service and sacrifice. We couldn’t
pumpkin seed granola. I didn’t Dunkin’ Donuts has a whole not a lick of pumpkin in there. do what we do, if you hadn’t done
love any of those products, and I assortment of pumpkin donuts and Now, that’s not true of everything. what you did and continue to do.
didn’t care for the pumpkin-flavored treats, and they’re delicious. There are always exceptions, I’m We’re also sending our best
instant oatmeal either. There are Just this morning, I received an sure. I did some research at the wishes to you all for a very happy
a plethora of breakfast choices email from Harry & David. For grocery store, and I admit that I Thanksgiving. This year has been
out there if you happen to be a only $89.99, I can buy a gorgeous had a hard time finding the word a difficult one for our country, with
pumpkin lover. I just bought a box and delicious two-layer pumpkin- “pumpkin” listed in the ingredients all the hurricanes, floods, fires,
of pumpkin spice Cheerios, and I’ll shaped devil’s food cake. It’s frosted in some of the products. disasters, shootings, and tragedies,
let you know how those taste. Like with orange icing and has a jaunty Luckily, pumpkins aren’t just for not to mention the political climate.
cardboard, I’m guessing. green stem sticking out the top. Or eating. Like Teresa, you can carve It’s hard to remember to be grateful
Then, there are all the cakes, for $5.99, I can bake two chocolate them up for Halloween, or keep for the good things in our lives when
cookies, pies, muffins, and breads. bundt cakes, slap them together, and them whole and decorate with them there’s so much to worry over.
My mom always bakes a batch of throw a few drops of red and yellow all through the fall. Pumpkins may As we sit down to dinner on
yummy pumpkin muffins for me food coloring into some vanilla be painted and decorated. They can November 23, I’ll be thankful for
when fall rolls around. I hope she’s frosting. I can stick a couple of silk be used as containers for flower my wonderful husband and mother
arrangements or they can hold beef and the rest of my extended family;
stew or soup, as is the tradition at for my friends, without whom I
Patsy Davies’s house. couldn’t get through the bad days;
Pumpkins can also be chunked, for a roof over our heads and food
as in “shot out of a cannon.” We on the table; and for the ability to
can go to pumpkin patches and pick get out of bed in the mornings. I will
our own beauties. We can also grow remind myself that I am grateful for
our own, as Randy has done in the many other things as well, and then
past. One of the funniest things I will dig into something delicious
he ever did was enter a teeny, tiny that tastes like pumpkin.
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