Glad I don't own a "Kia" ... or I might have my "worry-wart" genes getting all het up, Rusty! (Don't own any car, actually - which is somewhat inconvenient when one lives several kilometres away from the city). ole joyful

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.

What do you get when you cross a donkey with an onion? A piece of a$$ that will bring a tear to your eye!!

Best wishes, Annie, for an uneventful surgery and a quick recovery. And thank you so much for the threads that you start here, especially this daily humor funfest!