pumpkin stem time!

so i finally finished my pumpkin stem project. apparently they needed to go through a "mold" stage and then dry out. gross! i didn't know what to do when my beloved stems started getting moldy, all my efforts for nothing! so i decided to soak some of them in bleach and then let them completely dry out in the sun. however, the ones that i did not bleach were fine too. so lesson #1 in drying things out... give it time and just let them dry. easy enough. it's probably a good thing that i don't do any canning (or even cooking for that matter) for my family. we would probably all be sick!