pumpkins

Pickin' ain't easy...or maybe it is

OH MY GOURD! (you're welcome)

Get more details on the farm, and its fall opening festival through the farm's website, and social media event.

I just can't resist stopping at these trailers set up on the side of the road, and this time of year they're everywhere.

Even with temperatures dropping and Halloween right around the corner, there's still time to get out for some fall family fun in central Minnesota this weekend.

I have fond memories from my childhood of being gathered around the dining room table with my dad, mom and two younger sisters Abigail and Annabeth. It's October, Halloween is just a couple weeks away, and we're decorating Halloween cookies together as The Monster Mash spins on my dad's vinyl record player.

Mix 94.9 wants to see your Halloween pumpkin creations! Send us pictures of your carvings and you'll automatically be entered into our drawing for a pair of tickets to Molitor's Haunted Acres.

I've been eating pumpkin seeds ever since I was old enough to have solid foods. It's one of the best things about carving pumpkins--knowing that you'll get to eat the roasted seeds when it's all said and done.

It's not Halloween until I've carved a pumpkin and this year I cut it pretty close.

In our family, you can't plan on doing anything on Sundays during a Vikings game. That usually means we have to take care of all of our business on Saturdays.

My neighbor lady has already started to display Halloween decorations AND pumpkins on her front porch--which begs the question, how soon is too soon to display or carve your pumpkins?

Here are six things that you can do with your pumpkin to give it a little more use.