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tiny pumpkin

So after the Texans game downtown i headed over to the Forth’s for pumpkin carving madness and all around good times. I had planned to stop by the K-roger near their place to pick up a pumpkin. As i was on my way Crystal called and informed me that there were no pumpkins to be had in her neighborhood and if i could pick one up for her. Thinking this wouldn’t be an issue i gladly agreed. But who knew that there is a pumpkin shortage in Nashville. I’m sure it’s a supply chain issue as i could easily drive by a farm that grows pumpkins on my route to work. They really should figure out what brown could do for them and their supply chain issues as it’s ridiculous to lose out on pumpkin sales at the height of pumpkin selling season.

All they had was some tiny pumpkins and some very small pumpkins that someone drew on. After Crystal’s tiny baking experiments i figured the tiny pumpkin would be funny as well as the small pumpkin for her to actually carve. ( i decided to pass on the pumpkin carving as i do not have the carving skills to carve a tiny or small pumpkin) . So i texted her with the information that i got her the last pumpkin on earth. This is what she did with it… Quite lovely (without the proper tools to do this type of carving too )

to see the rest of the pumpkins that were carved tonight. . click here.
And no i’m not disappointed that i didn’t get to carve a pumpkin myself, I’m just glad i was part of the process of pumpkins being carved, games being played, pumpkin seeds being toasted. All in all it was a great weekend.

the other day botso asked what was new with me and i said not much.

then after further review realized this weekend was rather full

friday night - good margaritas and bad mexican food with friends

saturday - Jack Daniel’s BBQ cookoff and distillery tour. the cookoff and bbq wasn’t as spectacular as i had hoped but the distillery tour was more impressive than i had imagined.

saturday night - Corn Maze It was cold and dark but lots of fun. in hindsight needed to be fueled by more JD or JW.

Sunday Morning- Fall Back! though i still woke up at my usual time.. i’ll appreciate it more as the days progress.

Sunday - Texans vs. Titans. though it’s hard to get excited about football for me these days. i’ve always gotten free tickets to the titans vs. texans game since i’ve moved to Tennessee and thanks to kindness of friends, unexpectedly, i have nice tickets today.

Sunday evening - Pumpkin Carving at the Forth’s - I only carved my first pumpkin ever last halloween so this is a treat for my somewhat stunted childhood.

turns out my not much is much more than nothing.

now that The Hon is back.. I can also add that for the .22 people out there that might even want to view my blog via pda can a lot easier.  Check out his post here: Now with More PDA

switched to a new server hosting company. The fancy blog theme is back and running. hopefully the site will be more stable and available.

having issues with my site.. seems as though i can get to other non wordpress related pages but not the blog at times. I apologize to my 4.5 readers a day that have been affected.

Friday I came into NYC in the afternoon from New Jersey. My friend got me from Penn Station in Newark to Penn Station in NYC. We then took the shuttle to the subway station at Times Square. He gave me directions on which route to take down to Union Square.

I found out one of my friends i was going to visit was nearby so i just went up to the street level and met up with them, but time was short as i had places to be so i soon was back in the subway. Got my transit card found the right train. At this point i was rather proud of myself but then found out that the trains i needed were shut down for an investigation. So back up to street level i went. I made a call to my dear friend TLC
We met up about 10 blocks away (btw Stine several hugs were exchanged).

After that we took the bus down to Union Sq where I met up with a new friend…

So i found out what happened on the subway on Friday.. check it out 

Crazy!

Behold the power of carbon.. Brita or DeBeers feel free to contact me about payment as a spokesperson for your products.

this weekend while in NYC i noticed all my friends were had this item or a variation of in their homes

nashville water is somewhat funky after having superior water growing up in Pearland, TX . As part of my diet i’ve increased my water intake and figured it’s worht it to have better tasting water so i picked this one up and i gotta say it’s fantastic.

This weekend i had a great discussion with my friend on the many uses of the amazing carbon for filtering, pumping stomachs, bling (i was at a friends engagement and saw the huge rock he bought for his finance), and in fine/not so fine beverages everywhere.

Please leave your comments on how carbon has impacted your lives.

so i missed my flight to NYC this morning, which set off a whole series of events that could have been averted had i made it into the airport 10 minutes earlier. So i’ll have to wait about 5 hours for the next flight out, cancel my ride from the airport, cancel/reschedule lunch, cancel/reschedule meeting up with TLC (my favorite Tennessean in NYC), cancel coffee with a priest friend of mine, arrange to take the train into manhattan. And now come into the city on Friday to meet with everyone i had planned to meet with today. I’m running on about 3.5 hours of sleep.

oh well. at least the yankees are playing, i’ll have gray’s papaya tonight and i’m not at work.