It's getting to look a lot like Halloween

 We went to the annual halloween pumpkin carving at Kieran's school.  There's usually a movie later on too, but Kieran wasn't interested in watching the flicks, but really wanted to carve up pumpkins.
The school does it as a fund raiser, and it's great for the kids to be with their friends and carve up pumpkins.  We brought in rice crispies that went in minutes and made a small donation.
I helped Kieran a bit with the middle one.  I asked him what he wanted to do and he described it to me and we got a pen and kinda drew it out.  But it was entirely his own design.  Yahvi and Samat had arrived by the time we were done, so we helped them with theirs.  Good thing I was prepared and brought our own carving tools, cuz it was a zoo. So Kieran asked if we could do another. Since Yahvi was just starting. I wasn't sure, but he got another pumpkin to carve from the bin.
That's the one in front, which he did pretty much entirely on his own.  I just cut the lid and cleaned the guts out.   They had stencils, but the kids in school are encouraged to come up with their own ideas.  They can use stencils but they must come up with their own interpretation of the instructions. I think the stencils were more to help the parents that were doing most of the carving.  But doing your own design is way faster.  And can be pretty creative and totally original.

The third one that's at the end, today he asked if we could get another pumpkin to carve. So after supper today, we headed to No-Frills, and found no pumpkins left.  But we did get more halloween treats.  We had filled some loot bags to bring to his Slovenska Sola.  So I had to get a refill.  Then off we scooted to Loblaws and managed to pick up some olive oil.  It was sold out too!
We then headed to Fresh Co.  They had some, thank God!  I was running out of grocery stores in our area.  Kieran was doing his best to look over the big cardboard box on the skid to pick out the pumpkin he wanted.

I picked out two and was retrieving a 3rd one that he asked for and then Kieran, just trying to help me, did a bombs away with the one he didn't want to put it back in the pile and it sorta mushed a pumpkin in the box.  Ah...it was rotting anyways.
In any case, I hurried up to the cash to pay for the one he wanted before anyone noticed. And it was $1.50.   What a deal!  I was thinking we could pick up another, but then our green bin would be overflowing.  And I wasn't interested in giving the racoons a buffet that would end up on our sidewalk like a few weeks ago.  Dang critters.  If they're not digging up our lawn for grubs, they're busting open our green bin for a midnight snack.

We lined them up by the hall and put in these battery operated tea lights to see how they looked.
The lights from behind are these slits that are supposed to be scars that Kieran cut into his pumpkins.  The effect turned out pretty cool.