Monday - Turkey Trimmings and a New Tradition

Dear Perusers:
Apologies for the lateness of this post, but I was on Holiday yesterday and so was the blog.
We were celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving which happens to fall (pun) on the 2nd Monday in October and is in fact a Harvest Festival which makes perfect agricultural sense.
Every year Mr Bear does the Turkey Trot which goes something like this: take bird from fridge, de-gut bird in sink, then place bird in bag, set bird on counter and stuff bird with stuffing, then put bird in to the preheated oven and leave it alone.
The Look Bag is one heck of an invention when it comes to doing turkeys. It forms its own oven and helps keep all the juices in and no messy oven afterwards to clean!
While Turkey was  happily basting away in its own juices, we and our guests went for a walk next door to the farm. 
It was a 'O aren't you glad to be here kind of day': you know the kind, where the birds are singing and the maples are flaming and the compost pile hides a multitude of pumpkins within their twining leaves. One of our guests, Mr B rooted around in the farm's giant compost pile and found a ginormous 15 lb pumpkin.
It was a good thing our house is a short walk as the pumpkin apparently grew heavier with each step! 

Here is the Mighty Pumpkin Hunter with his Trophy.
Mr B then went around back and began to commit surgery upon Harvey the Harvest Pumpkin and scooped out his innards, saving the seeds which were then roasted along with the Turkey (they were delicious with a sprinkling of salt!)
Ms P came out to lend a helping hand to give Harvey a face to be proud of (Ms P sniffs at those who use stencils) and with a few whacks and cuts, Ta Da! One Carved Pumpkin!
So it looks like a New Tradition has begun at Quail Hill: find a pumpkin in next door's compost pile, and carve it in readiness for All Hallow's at the end of the month.

Of course we had to give it a test lighting to see if it would be really scarey when it glowed.
It will have pride of place on top of our Kitchen Balcony railing and will 'glow' down on all those lil tricky treaters at the end of the month.
Blessings of Bountiful Harvests - agriculturally, spiritually and culturally!