Smoking Out the Baby Pumpkin Murderers
At 6:15 p.m. Sunday, I should have been having drinks at my neighbors’. They’d called around 6 p.m., but I was on a mission to save the baby pumpkins from a senseless crime. See … a few of them were wounded with holes about the size of pencil erasers. Usually they can be used as decorations through Thanksgiving and I was afraid the ones with the holes would decay quickly.
I armed myself with this great stuff from Stampin’ Up! called Crystal Effects … it creates a water-like look on craft projects, but is also an amazing glue that dries crystal clear. I decided it be perfect to plug up the pumpkin holes and perhaps stop the decay.
Well, the holes were caused by nasty-ass worms … that were still in the pumpkins. They didn’t like the glue so much … probably because they couldn’t breathe and started poking their heads out. I was determined to “smoke out” the murderers and quickly ran for a reinforcement … a old pair of tweezers.
By 6:30 p.m. or so on Sunday I thought I had them all, but the glue wasn’t reacting well to the fresh pumpkin and I decided to let them dry out a bit.
Three of the pumpkins didn’t make it … victims of the terrible crime. But a few seemed to be fairing well. Then tonight when I went to glue them again … two of the little pumpkin murderers had survived. One went down easy, but the other wouldn’t budge. Layer and after layer of glue and it seemed to be able to stay just below the surface and still breathe. Finally, I got it.
Two of the pumpkins are still in critical condition. I’m hoping they will pull through. In the meantime, I am keeping a vigilant eye to make sure more murderers don’t prey on my bigger pumpkins.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I really hope those tweezers don’t go back into the vanity!
September 17th, 2009 at 7:50 am
That’s funny. I think seeing the little worms poke their heads out through the holes would have given me the heebie jeebies.