Pumpkins

Little help here? What kind of animal can gut a porch pumpkin in city limits in broad daylight?

Everybody 'reads the seasons' differently. Wednesday morning the seasons were changing at my local HyVee in Sioux Falls.

The obesity issue in this country is so bad even our food is too heavy.

Pumpkin carving became a sort of art form in our house when we were kids, thanks to my dad's mad skills.

It was a brazen pumpkin heist in South Dakota. Father miffed at thieves for stealing his 100-lb gourd he was growing with his daughter.

I made a quick stop to HyVee over the lunch hour. Pumpkins are everywhere! Not only pumpkins but flowers and straw bales and everything that has to do with fall.

A giant pumpkin that was brazenly stolen from the yard of a residence in South Dakota has been found and returned.

The Heidinger family in Tea, South Dakota has taken their own pumpkin "hobby harvest" and turned it into something that everyone can enjoy.

Pumpkin farmers say they expect their crop to be one of a few bright spots in a year when most farms have been hit hard by a severe drought that stretches across much of the U.S.