Here are a couple of fun pumpkin things for you to ponder. Pumpkins mean no in Ukraine. As in no, I won’t marry you. Who knew? People race pumpkins. In Maine, people turn giant pumpkins into boats and then race those huge pumpkins. There’s a pumpkin race in Nova Scotia, too. Way cooler than a [...]
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The cabbage in your fridge is a little too old, and the apple you forgot to eat is looking pretty sad. So you grab some tools – knives and a drill ought to do just fine – and carve creepy skulls into that produce. For inspiration, see the macabre art of Dimitri Tsykalov. If you’re [...]
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Seems I missed the excitement on the Gabriola ferry the other day. From the Daily News: Police swarm Gabriola ferry and seize fake handgun from teen. Nanaimo RCMP seized a replica handgun from a costumed 15-year-old boy as he got off the Gabriola Island ferry on Halloween. Police swarmed the MV Quinsam as it docked [...]
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Each Hallowe’en, Gabriola pumpkin-carvers leave lit jack-o’-lanterns along the roadside in The Tunnel. I love this tradition. I’ve just come back from viewing some of the pumpkins, and here’s one of my favourites. I think I’d call it The Scream, wouldn’t you? Or stick with the Norwegian and call it Skrik. I don’t know which [...]
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You carving pumpkins this year, Gabriola? If you’re hoping to leave an impressive jack-o’-lantern in The Tunnel tomorrow night, you might take inspiration from an article that features the most amazing pumpkin-carvings I’ve ever seen. Wow. The artist, Ray-Villafane, has put a photo gallery of pumpkins he carved on the web for you. Well worth [...]
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While wandering through the Gabriola woods this afternoon we misplaced a trail, and wound up here. Just look at that tree — what a face! If you’ve been thinking of going to the Hallowe’en thing at Twin Beaches (or some other Gabriola Hallowe’en festivity) and need costume inspiration, here it is: go as the ghoulish [...]
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These pumpkins are outside Gabriola’s Village Food Market. Think they’ll all sell by Hallowe’en? If they don’t, what will Village Foods do with the leftover pumpkins? If we were in Florida, leftover pumpkins could be donated to the big cats. Go see this short video, Big Cat Hallowe’en, and be delighted. If you like watching [...]
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If you’re looking for a Gabriola-themed Hallowe’en costume, you’ve got several options. In the horror and ick department, here’s today’s inspirational photo for the do-it-yourself costume makers. This is a dead deer in the Gabriola woods. All the fur is gone, the nose has been ripped off and eaten by some other animal, and… well, [...]
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