Rho Dodenron, yes, I do. Sometimes with just salt, pepper & butter, sometimes with various seasonings (I like it with various curry blends). I bake the raw pumpkin (cut in half, cut side down on a rimmed (because it will bleed juice) baking sheet until it is soft enough to easily push a knife through the rind and slightly caramelized around the cut edge. Then the rind will peel off easily and the seed practically fall out - so much easier that trying to deseed, peel and cut up raw.

Dog-gone good story! After getting off bus in nearby village, was hitchhiking home, lady concerned, called cops, the one replying said she said she'd offered to drive me, I said if I'd heard it, I'd have replied, "Thank you, ma'am- that's very kind of you". He, a city cop, asked permission to leave the city to drive me home, and did. Standard time isn't friendly to hitchhikers: two weeks and a bit ago it got dark at 6; now it gets dark at 5. ole joyful (forgot to hit "space" - again! So - had to come back). o j

So many good ones today!!

It started to snow, a few flakes at a time, this morning, and by early afternoon a thin accumulation was on the ground. It got dark shortly after five and now, after three a.m. I don't know how much there may be - but if Rusty's dog were here, I'm pretty sure that s/he'd be chilly. ole joyful