In honor of the season...this week's word is Pumpkin. Also too...23 years ago, on a warm October Morning, and the hour hand climbed towards twelve, my husband and I, before friends and family promised to love, honor and cheirsh one another for richer or poorer, in sickness and health...till death do us part. And the beat goes on! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzW_7ANnHZI

Congratulations K2, and wishing you and hubby many more happy years to come..... As for the prompt.... it's a toughie, will have to give it a lot of thought.

Congrats, K2! I love October weddings. :3 For the prompt I'm picturing one of Galactor's MOST ill-conceived mechas yet... O_o

Congratulations, K2! Lunulet, can't wait to read your story

Congratulations, K2! Lunulet, can't wait to read your story

Sorry for the double post, computer glitch!

Congratulations, K2P2! 23 years is something to be proud of! Okay, I'm really busy this week and don't have time, so I'm going to cop out of this prompt by submitting a picture. Yesterday I hosted a Halloween 'appetizers' party for my DD's youth group. She and I spent the morning making Halloween dishes. This one worked out really well. So there's my pumpkin!

OOOh, yummy, that pumpkin looks good enough to eat.... hope they all enjoyed it.

Very clever pumpkin cheeseball! Love it!

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Ugh EW. Btw, when we had female dogs in heat, if you took them out of sight of our male, he made the weirdest demented duck sounds until he could see them again.

Ugh, squirrels. As long as they aren't eating my fruit! Fortunately, we picked all of the apples and the rest of the fruit is gone for the season.

E.W. - I love your Katse and demand more of him. Also, can we get capybaras in on this rodent business? Maybe a capybara mech? Just sayin'.

Wow, I never dreamed I'd become Gatchamania's resident zookeeper!

Originally posted by ElectricWhite Wow, I never dreamed I'd become Gatchamania's resident zookeeper!

You know, I'm actually not at all surprised....

Originally posted by Transmute Jun

Originally posted by ElectricWhite Wow, I never dreamed I'd become Gatchamania's resident zookeeper!

You know, I'm actually not at all surprised....

....Because I've done some shoveling from time to time?

Originally posted by ElectricWhite ....Because I've done some shoveling from time to time?

That too.

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LOL, we tried to do a Katse pumpkin a few years ago, but clearly Jinpei's turned out better! At least Jinpei did something scary!

Jinpei's one multi-talented kid!

KT: I could totally see that happening in canon.

k2p2 ... congrats for your anniversary, even if I might be a bit late! Mine was also an October wedding, as was that of my parents! TJ ... that looks so yummy! I guess it didn't take long to wipe the platter clean! EW ... first rats, then squirrels! As we don't have squirrels around here, can I ask whether I should be thankful or not, since I'm sensing that they might do a bit of substantial damage by the feedback I'm reading regarding them! To be honest, I always thought they were cute, when glimpsing one scuttling around on my visits abroad! But, maybe, I might be wrong! KT ... WTG for Jinpei for being such a good carver ... good enough to tease Joe's nerves! May I ask if Jun baked what I assume was the pumpkin pie she served?!

Originally posted by gatchamarie KT ... May I ask if Jun baked what I assume was the pumpkin pie she served?!

Hee hee hee, Marie, I really wouldn't like to commit myself to an answer to that right now.....

Marie, a lot of people call squirrels "fuzzy-tailed rats" -- they're really cute, but incredibly destructive (especially the North American Gray squirrel!) Each year I have to deal with one or two that gnaw through the aluminum siding on the garage and try to build a nest inside.

Squirrels are cute. However, I have a friend who is in a constant war against squirrels. They've gotten to her house's wiring and could easily have started numerous fires. After trying every non-lethal method she could find to deal with the problem she's resigned herself to the lethal ones.

I used to find squirrels reaaaaallllly cute, and was shocked when told that they are rodents - duh! We had them in a park next to my office when I was in London and I was cooing over them, when a colleague told me the truth. Nope, I didn't know it before, but I was never very good in natural sciences But I still find them cute!

I went to a rather large university out east. In the long open park-like area leading up to the library lived the most massive squirrels I had ever seen. Students constantly fed them to the point they were beyond unafraid of people. The suckers would come after you if they thought you had something. Lots of urban legends about them were born, too. It was always hard to tell if a particular "crazy squirrel" story was true or not! But I still find them cute. The squirrels here are really little, which makes them even cuter. I miss chipmunks though. Those were totally adorable, even if the one I caught as a kid bit me.

Thanks for the info about squirrels, guys! I never thought they could do such damage! Guess I just have to keep on seeing them as cute whilst they're far, far away, then! Sorry for your mishaps associated to them, EW and CW!

//"Princess, have you seen Jason?" asked Mark, scratching his head and looking around the common room at disbelief at what he was seeing: candy bars and pumpkins strewn across the floor, Princess and Keyop up to their ears in coloured paper and glue, making decorations. "Never mind Jason, what are you doing?" continued Mark in the same breath. "This? Oh, we decided to hold a little Halloween celebration for the kids of the staff. I expect all of them to turn up as Zoltar. Keyop and I got the candy, and I was going to tell the others once everyting was ready. Anyway, you were looking for Jason?" "Ah, yes, I was looking for him, we have to go over some reports. Where is he? Is he helping out with the preparations?" asked Mark, a bit put off by the idea that Jason would be helping Princess and Keyop when he, the commander, had no idea of what was going on. But Princess just snorted. "Jason? Helping out? You gotta be joking! No, he's shut himself in the chief's study, preparing, as he said, for something called...what was it...nanosomething or other...I'm not sure. It's something people used to do a long time ago, they wrote a novel in one month. It happened every November. Jason read about it somewhere and wanted to give it a go. He's preparing his storyline as he said." "Jason? Write a novel? Is he serious?" gasped Mark. "Well, he seemed quite serious to me. He suggested I try it too, to get, as he said, my creativity flowing." "Ok, I have to find him. He HAS to promise that he's not going to make me read it." With a determined look on his face, headed off to make sure that he would not be asked to comment on Jason's creativity. One enemy, Spectra, was enough. He didn't want to make any others.//

Good one Daniella, although I'm surprised it would be Jason taking the challenge. It seems our Gatchamaniacs are in good company though.

Ha ha - I wanted to show that there's one more hidden side to Jason! To be honest, I always thought of Jason as the most creative one - I think also jublke has some great stories about Jason writing. Right, Julie?

I wonder what Jason's storyline will be?

DT: I love that Mark's gone from "I need Jason to help with these reports" to "oh god don't let him insist I give him a crit." I have to admit that it's not hard to see that going badly. Mark would take it ultra-seriously and might accidentally be a bit harsh, and Jason's response might be, uh, harsher.

Originally posted by Daniella T Ha ha - I wanted to show that there's one more hidden side to Jason! To be honest, I always thought of Jason as the most creative one - I think also jublke has some great stories about Jason writing. Right, Julie?

Yep, that's me, Daniella. I've got one with him writing poetry. My theory is that he's got a lot of pent up creativity in there if he could just let himself explore it. I wonder what topic would interest Jason enough to plot a novel about it?!?

Before the pokey-sticks come out, I'm ready to say that a fic about Jason having written a NaNo is a good idea!

Nice one, Daniella! I love reading about different aspects of a character! May I be the first one to regarding the possibility of a fic having Jason to write a novel?!! That would surely be interesting!

Originally posted by Transmute Jun I wonder what Jason's storyline will be?

Maybe he'd be writing about how he managed to make up an opportune excuse, such an event falling right in November, to escape the whole thing of the Halloween decorations, even though now he has to stick with it! Nah ... he'd most probably be putting down on paper all his frustrations about how one is always being misjudged by a guardian and how to deal with such a situation!