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Enchanted Pumpkin Garden in Carefree Arizona 2017

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The third annual Enchanted Pumpkin Garden is taking place in beautiful Carefree AZ October 20th – 29th. This is a FREE no cost family friendly and even dog friendly event. Pumpkin Artist Ray Villafane is the genius behind the whimsical creations. If his name rings a bell that might be because you caught him on Food Network’s Halloween Wars where competitors compete in teams that transform food and pumpkins into amazing Halloween Themed Creations. Here is some of what I saw this year.

 

 

That was some of the pumpkins from the 3rd annual Enchanted Pumpkin Garden.

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#PumpkinSpiceEVERYTHING and Halloween has gone to the Dogs! 2017

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This time of year food manufactures go berserk with Halloween, fall, pumpkin and  pumpkin spice  flavored foods. Not even Dog Foods are free of the #PumpkinSpiceEVERYTHING going on. We must inflict Halloween Flavors and Pumpkin Spice to our furry best friends.

Here are Creepy Crunchers. They look like some sort of nutty treat for dogs.

Dogs will get in the “Howl-lo-wean” spirit with doggy Apple Cider Donuts.

Boo Bars Mummy Morsels….WTFork are these suppose to be……crumbled bits of corpse that are mummified? …..might be tasty to dogs?

Turkey & Pumpkin Ghost doggy treats. Booooooo ……..Gobble gobble……Boo!

Doggy Ghost Grub Treats….

Pumpkin Chilling Chews…….

Here’s Happy Halloween Dog Treats.

Up on top in the middle are Skinny Mint Halloween Treats for Dogs.

Scary Berry Greenies for Dogs…I’d be scared to give my dog something called scary berry…?

Greenies also makes Pumpkin Spice Flavor for Dogs!

Trader Joe’s Pumpkin flavored Dog Treats!

Trick or Treat Well Bites with Pumpkin!

Pumpkin Spice Creepy Dog Bone Cookies…..?

Pumpkin Spice Chilly Chews..?

BONES filled with PUMPKIN SPICE FILLING!

Somehow they managed to flavor Rawhide FORKING Pumpkin Spice Flavored!

That was #PumpkinSpiceEverything and Halloween…or is it Howlerween has gone to the Dogs!

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2016 Halloween Candy Usage

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I love Halloween. I love the colors, the fun decorations and candy. It’s fun to see what people come up with for their costumes. I really like the home made creations like when a kid wears a box that they make look like a tv. This year I saw some very good pirates, a few cheerleaders, some goblins and one really odd looking smily face….I just love it!   I don’t know if Halloween Candy melts..here when kids go Trick or Treating…….maybe the candy does melt…..?…….wow that would suck! This year they predicted the weather to be around 92 degrees F for Halloween. I don’t think it got that hot because it felt more like the mid 80s……but we did have a recording breaking  HOT  October and had most of the days at 90 degrees or above.

Halloween 2014 I gave out 92 Full Size Candies

Halloween 2015 I gave out 121 Full Size Candies

Would I give out less candy for Halloween 2016 since it runs on a Monday school night this year instead of a weekend????????

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I am very stocked up on candy and I threw in a few packs of seaweed to see if anyone would take seaweed over the candy just for fun.

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Well The Monday Night didn’t seem to affect the number of children out on Halloween. 2016 I gave out 124 pieces of full size candy. I do note a few little monsters did grab two pieces.

This year I gave out 50 Pixy Stix (children were screaming when I ran out)

25 Hershey Bars

9 Candy Necklaces

7 Snickers

7 Plain M&M’s

5 Peanut M&M’s

4 Skittles

4 Twix

4 Milky Way

3 Three Musketeers

3 Starburst

3 Packs of Seaweed (The few children that took seaweed screamed with joy)

It seems that Pixy Stix (large sticks that hold flavored sugar) is a favorite candy by far for the majority of American Children.

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P.S. Since moving to Arizona I no longer dress Dogs for Halloween. It’s too hot in Phoenix AZ to dress a dog up for Halloween.

 

 

 

Enchanted Pumpkin Garden Carefree Arizona It’s a Free Event….GO!

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October 17th – 31th 2016 is the 2nd annual Enchanted Pumpkin Garden in Carefree Arizona. This is a free no cost event.

Pumpkin Artist Ray Villafane is the genius behind these whimsical pumpkins that take over the beautiful Carefree Desert Gardens. If the name Ray Villafane sounds familiar it’s probably because you’ve watched him on Food Network’s TV Show called Halloween Wars where he transformed Pumpkins into amazing lifelike creations.

Besides strolling threw the gardens-

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the Enchanted Pumpkin Garden’s Events have grown to include a craft beer garden, a few food trucks ( I saw four and one was ice-cream) –

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Hayrides, a pumpkin pie eating contest and face painting.

For more information please visit www.CarefreePumpkinGarden.com or just Forking Visit the Gardens…BECAUSE it’s FREE

! There are a few shops and a few cafes in walking distance that you can do afterwards. beautiful Cave Creek is only a couple streets away and you can easily spend some time there too. Lot’s of tourist shops and bars with cowboys and want-to-be cowboys Cave Creek is a very southwest kind of town and is lots of fun for visitors and for people that truly enjoy the south west.

Here are a few pictures of what I saw this year.

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This week should even be better because the artist will be carving all the pumpkins can. The pumpkins only last for up to FOUR days in our Arizona Weather. They actually mist the pumpkins with water to get them to last a mere four days.

Here are a few photos from 2015 Enchanted Pumpkin Garden

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Carefree’s Enchanted Pumpkin Garden…Just Forking Go…It’s Free!

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2015 Halloween Candy Usage

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Halloween 2014 I used 92 pieces of full size candy. Over the past few years I forking found that most children don’t like the candy I like. I forking like candy like Reese’s peanut butter cups, M&M’s and Jr. Mints. A couple years back I used to offer those candies but the little monsters didn’t take them and took mostly Pixi Sticks that I mixed in.

So just like last year I offered Large Size Pixi Sticks, Hershey Bars, A box of Mixed Chocolate Bars and some candy necklaces.

I had my busiest Halloween Ever and used 121 full size pieces of candy.

2015 Halloween Candy Usage was…….

45 Large Pixi Sticks

36 Hershey Bars

7 Snickers

6 Twix

4 Peanut M&M’s

5 Plain M&M’s

4 Milky Way Bars

14 Candy Necklaces

Next Year just for fun!  I might offer packages of Seaweed and cans of Sardines along with forking Pixi Sticks and Hershey Bars for Halloween.

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The Forking Truth