A Great Pumpkin thought from the missuz

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My son, yesterday. We were never happy with the commercially-available shirts - the stripes are wrong, or only in the front, or don't go full across, etc. I used paint to put this stripe on, happy with how it allowed me to capture the look of Schulz's lively imperfection. My wife made a ghost sheet with too many holes in it, but we didn't make much use of it.

 

My wife notes that there is a lot of work involved in achieving the second most sincere pumpkin patch, but a sad lack of reward for doing so.

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