Knuckleheads

With a title like that you might expect this post will be about a certain Presidential candidate with a single-digit IQ and serious dementia issues, California drivers, or the Three Stooges, but NO! It’s about pumpkins, in keeping with the rapidly approaching holiday. (If I had titled the post “Orange Knuckle Heads” then that would narrow it down to just the politician and the pumpkins.)

I spotted these in the local Ralph’s last Sunday and while I’ve probably seen this particular kind of gourd in the past, I didn’t know that they were named “Knuckle Head Pumpkins” ($7.99 each, but I’ll bet you can get them for half of that at an actual pumpkin patch).

There’s total overcast here tonight so no new comet pictures, after the May Gray and June Gloom has finally turned into a full blown case of October Something-That-Rhymes-With-October grayout.

The Ralph’s also had the more conventional type of pumpkins, at least a couple, which probably indicates that they were selling well while these were…lingering. That’s not fair, these have a ton of character! I’ll have to see if they’re still there next Sunday morning.

This one seems to have some of those “warts” that have popped – are the warts hard like the pumpkin rind or soft like a huge blister such as you might get on your foot after a long hike? I didn’t poke them to find out – I didn’t want to get a reputation at the local Ralph’s for being a pumpkin poker.