So now, this is National Pumpkin Day. Honestly! There’s a day for everything, isn’t there, even the lowly pumpkin. But, wait. Is the pumpkin really so lowly? As it turns out, pumpkins have a lot of food value. They’re good for you! (And for me.)
Read about the benefits of eating pumpkins. Unless, for some reason,you are allergic to them, they can be of great food value. They’re even good for your dogs.
Added to the all these good things, they’re bright, colorful, cheerful-looking and fun. They’re ripe and ready to go about this time of year and that’s really serendipitous, ’cause they look great on front porches. My neighbors have pumpkins decorating their houses and I used to have too, but one year the curious and irritating squirrels who inhabit my yard discovered the great taste of those bright, orange, round things set out so handily. They chewed and gnawed their way into my decorative pumpkins.
That year I probably had the healthiest yard rodents of anybody. My pumpkins looked the worse for wear. Did the squirrels know that those pretty, bright, hard things on my porch were good for them? I doubt it, they are not health-minded but they are mischief minded.
The squirrels, however, may have been onto something and perhaps we should take a look at being pumpkin-minded too, especially on this day set aside just for them!
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