Even though pumpkin season may be once again behind us for another year, don’t forget that now is the time to stock up on supplies to carry us through the summer as the stores try to clear their shelves of seasonal merchandise!

I found these two Jello items deeply discounted over at my local Sweetbay – 75% off, in fact – bringing the no-bake dessert down to $0.80/box (originally $3.19) and the pudding down to a staggering $0.28/box (originally $1.15).

I’m not gonna lie – I felt a little like I was on Supermarket Sweep, checking out with a basket filled mostly with discounted pumpkin supplies and only a couple of the other items that I had actually come to the store for, and I did get a bit of eye-rolling from the wife when I got home, too, but we’ll see who has the last laugh later on this spring and summer when I’m baking up all sorts of creative concoctions with these simple pumpkin treats while the new stuff won’t be hitting the store shelves again for months…

A little Christmas gift from my sister and her husband – will have to make sure that Cleo doesn’t get a hold of this one!

As seen in The Art of Disney at Downtown Disney – if only my wallet was big enough to afford pretty much anything found in this store!

I was waiting for Bill Nye the Science Guy to come popping out from behind the desk at any moment…

How’s about a few of my favorite geek-inspired jack o’ lanterns from around the Internet to get your Halloween Monday started off right???

“That’s no gourd, that’s a space station!”  (source unknown)

“One pumpkin to rule them all, one pumpkin to find them…”  (source unknown)

“1-Up-kin!”  (via @MarioMarathon)

“Quick – turn the other way so he’ll stop…”  (via @jessotron)

*squawk* *squawk*  (via Kotaku)

And although some of them definitely look a little suspect, here’s a huge link to even more of ‘em if you find work this morning going a little, well, slow…

Even as much as I may love pumpkin as an adult, I’ve got to agree with The Onion on this one – very glad that there aren’t any photos of me like this floating around out there…

And that’s a wrap for Team Pumpkin North’s review of Tim Hortons’ 2011 pumpkin spice line-up!

Like what you saw?

Then maybe next time if you have a pumpkin review that you need written, and if no one else can help, and if you promise to share with Brandi, maybe you can hire … Team Pumpkin North!

You met her earlier this morning as the enforcer of Team Pumpkin North!, but I just had to share one more picture of my sister’s baby that she just sent me a few minutes ago…

She was born a little over a month ago and as you can see that she’s already showing superior judgement, at least as far as her orange vegetables of choice are concerned!  If you haven’t read it already, you might enjoy this humor column I wrote three days after Madelyn was born in which I committed to spoiling rotten this adorable, little girl!

• An Obligation of Awesome to My New Baby Niece…

Christmas may be just around the corner, but the time to buy her all sorts of stuff covered in pumpkins is NOW!!!

I don’t know about you, but I sure am looking forward to the latest Muppet movie with Jason Segel that’s due out at Thanksgiving!  In the meantime, though, here’s a classic clip from a few years ago in which we see the Swedish Chef conflicted about the most effective way to make pumpkin pie…

Holy cow – look who finally decided to start putting their pumpkin stuff out!

And here I thought that the great take of seven new items from Target a couple of weeks ago was pretty impressive, but this?!  It may have resulted in some curious glances from the cashier as I was checking out, but this is almost certainly the best collection that I’ve ever brought home from Walmart – definitely looking forward to some of the new baking that is now slated for the first part of November!

The List:

• Pillsbury Pumpkin Caramel Delight Cake Mix
• Air Wick Pumpkin Spice Scented Candle
• Krusteaz Pumpkin Pie Bar Supreme Mix
• Walmart Bakery Sugar-Free Sliced Pumpkin Creme Cake
• Entenmann’s Pumpkin Loaf Cake
• Country Crock Pumpkin Spice Spread
• Borden Pumpkin Pie Spice Egg Nog
• Betty Crocker Pumpkin Spice Cookie Mix
• JELL-O No Bake Pumpkin Style Pie Dessert Mix