So, tonight, I decided to cut it open and cook its flesh (See left). That was much tougher than I thought. It wouldn't have been so bad if I had some kind of steamer, but I had to boil it, and to do that I needed to remove the outer shell.Well, I slipped a couple of times while I was cutting the pumpkin open. One time I sliced off a huge chunk of skin. It started bleeding profusely. I put on a bandage, but soon realized that one just wasn't going to cut it (ha ha, really bad pun) when I noticed that blood was leaking through the pores.
I didn't know band-aids could bleed... (see below). Well, the pain didn't stop there. I also cut a couple of times into the tip of my thumb. I'm lucky I didn't cut my finger off, and if I ever decide to have a fresh pumpkin again, I'm going to get a steamer so I can just steam it in its shell.That was only one of my adventures for the day. Besides that, Sara and I went grocery shopping. A new store just opened up here in Provo called Buy Low Market. Sara got a part-time job there, so she brought home their ad. I was happy to see that they were having a sale on chicken for $.99/lb! And that was for boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Unfortunately, we had to buy a 40 lb box to get that price. I didn't really know how much 40lbs of chicken was until I saw the box. When we got it home, we started separating it to put in our freezer. We got half-way through when I decided that we could not handle 40lbs of chicken. I had already planned to offer some to my cousin's family (Adam and Betsy) but now I really hoped that they would want some, so I called them up. To my great delight, not only did they want some, but they were willing to take half! They even went and bought a 40lb box for other family members (Josh and Catie, my other cousins, are sharing a box with Jim and Carla, my aunt and uncle). Between us all, a lot of chickens had to die.
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