National Pumpkin Day 2023

Part and parcel of my favorite time of the year are the cooler weather of fall and the accompanying holiday season.

Today is National Pumpkin Day which is observed October 26 annually.

It is a food. It is a decoration. It is a construction material. It is an ingredient in lattes, pies, and other tasty contrivances.

The nutritional value of pumpkin is renoun. Even the seeds of pumpkin make delicious and nutritious snacks.

These gourds are native to Central America and Mexico but have been grown on six continents.

They have played a part in the activities of mankind for some 5,000 years.

This time of year the carved pumpkin or Jack-o-Lantern plays large in the lives of children everywhere who celebrate Halloween.

I hope you'll get out there and obtain a pumpkin — seeing how they are all over the place right now — and then use it in accordance to your own devices.