{"id":1263,"date":"2012-10-15T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2012-10-15T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:26:17","slug":"pumpkin-carving-the-right-tools-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/pumpkin-carving-the-right-tools-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin carving &#8211; the right tools for the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My folks came up for \u00a0visit this past Saturday. \u00a0We met up with one of my friends and took his dogs for a nice long walk in a nearby state park, then headed back to my place to carve pumpkins.<\/p>\n<p>I had already bought the pumpkins and a carving kit that included some tools and some patterns. \u00a0Since I was the host, I did a simple design on mine so that I could help out if anyone needed anything.<\/p>\n<p>The other three used the patterns provided &#8211; with varying degrees of success. \u00a0My friend did well with his pumpkin and the little carving saws. \u00a0Dad requested another small knife and I found a pocket knife for him to finish up his.<\/p>\n<p>Mom ran into trouble with hers and we later discovered she had picked one of the &#8220;advanced&#8221; patterns. \u00a0So, we all pitched in to help out &#8211; with Dad doing much of the work, me getting additional tools and supplies, and my friend sharing some ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Our list of tools used:<\/p>\n<p>1. Steak knives<br \/>\n2. A pocket knife<br \/>\n3. Two mini-saws<br \/>\n4. plastic pinwheel for marking the patterns.<br \/>\n5. plastic punch for knocking out sections.<br \/>\n6. a mallet and chisel<br \/>\n7. Toothpicks to repair loose sections of the design.<br \/>\n8. Sharpie markers.<br \/>\n9. plastic pumpkin guts scraper<\/p>\n<p>The design mom did had mini jack-o-lanterns with tiny features. \u00a0And the mini saws just weren&#8217;t up to the task. \u00a0After struggling with this for a while, Dad turned to me and asked, &#8220;Do you have a drill?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>10. Drill<\/p>\n<p>So, back to the basement I went and returned with a drill. \u00a0We found a three prong outlet, plugged in the extension cord, and Dad drilled out the eyes of the mini jack-o-lanterns &#8211; enough that light would show through once we cleaned up the edges.<\/p>\n<p>We got everything cleaned up, went out to dinner, and had pumpkin pie when we got back. \u00a0 Dad took his jack-o-lantern with him when they went home &#8211; the rest are sitting on my front porch waiting for a good night to light them up and get some photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkinDrill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1264\" title=\"pumpkinDrill\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkinDrill-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Drilling out the eyes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkinDrill-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pumpkinDrill.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My folks came up for \u00a0visit this past Saturday. \u00a0We met up with one of my friends and took his dogs for a nice long walk in a nearby state park, then headed back to my place to carve pumpkins. I had already bought the pumpkins and a carving kit that included some tools and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}