I was wandering through Walmart the other day waiting for my grand daughter get her hair cut. So I took a look in the cake decorating isle and found this little cookie stamp by Nordic Ware.  I try to buy something every year from Nordic Ware because all their products are American made.  Only now after 20 + years of doing this I have quite a collection of bake ware and have run out of space to store it.

This is a little different from the traditional Pumpkin Pie but it does have good flavor.  Butternut squash does make a better pie but I was surprised how good the acorn squash turned out.  I had 2 halves left over from a meal that no one wanted.  I had baked more then one squash.  I add a maple sausage patty to each piece when baking and that makes the acorn squash a main dish.  I didn't want to waste the pudding squash so I chose to make it into a custard pie. 

As my Thursday is wrapping up and most of y'all's Thursdays are starting, it's time for another open thread Thursday.

I missed it last Thursday due to having a very sick cat - we ended up taking her to a cardiologist and getting a brain MRI, but they couldn't really figure out what was wrong with her. The good news is that she's mostly recovered now.

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

(Ding-Dong!)  Trick or Treat!!
"Who are YOU supposed to be?!"
(Candy dropped in bags.)

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I'm pretty sure I'll stop numbering these soon, and maybe choose more creative titles like MrSmith1 does, but then again, I'm not as creative as he.

I don't have much in the way of deep thoughts today, but here are two:

I see frozen blueberries all the time at the grocery store.  It just never crossed my mind to use them in pie.  Even though I used to pick blueberries when I lived in Ohio and froze them to use for pies years ago.  I usually buy the pie filling already made in cans because I live to far south to grow them.  Because it takes two cans to make a 9 inch pie, blueberry pie is reserved for special occasions.

It's been a long while since my last open-thread Thursday, but here's another.

Some thoughts I've had while reading the news this morning:

1400 Pennsylvania Avenue,
It's a place for you me,

1400 Pennsylvania Avenue,
This is an address we should know.

1400 Pennsylvania Avenue,
I found the link so you could see!

1400 Pennsylvania Avenue,
That is where President John McCain will be.

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

Shy birds on the line,
trying not to heed the call
of Mother Nature.

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

A beach umbrella
keeps a lonely vigil as
the tide starts to turn.

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

Labor Day double haiku:

Forty hour work weeks,
Safety and child labor laws ...
a minimum wage.