Right. So, last night, I had insomnia and was bored...

So I decided to do a Google Image Search for "Hans my Hedgehog," to see which scenes were most often illustrated (If I'd gotten around to it earlier for naarmamo, I might have challenged myself to draw the scene where Hans drops his hedgehog hide, as he climbs into the marriage bed).

Anyway, one hit was this photoshopped image from Worth1000.com, for the contest of "Fairy Tales can come true":

Hans my Hedgehog

Putting in the German name for the story: "Hans mein Igel" got more hits, including this art-doll version (Website in German, with English translation):

Hans mein Igel

(When I saw the thumbnail, at first, I thought it was a picture of someone dressed in a costume as Hans... Now, that would be scary, coming down the street on Halloween night -- especially if the costumed person could really play a real set of bagpipes as he went--no pedophiles would dare aproach the kiddies who had that as an escort).

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Also, on Wednesday, I watched a documentary on people who grow giant pumpkins. Even as I was getting emotionally involved with the different growers (the documentaries in this series are predictably manipulative), I couldn't help thinking: "What a waste! All that land, all that water, time and effort for a single fruit." And it was, as far as I could tell, just for show and bragging rights. I mean, no one even mentioned making pies from them.

Then, the next day, I thought of the rhyme:

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her,
he put her in a pumpkin shell --

Dried guords make great bird houses... if the same could be done with the shell of one of these pumpkins, you'd have a two-adult sleeper, easy...

Still, too much of a waste of energy and resourses, if you ask me...