Pumpkin Soup with Sage Pesto and Spicy Pumpkin Seeds... Recipe

For years the mister has refused to buy a generator, he's a Marine and he don't need no stinkin' generator!  Nevermind his long-suffering wife who DOES!  Well, well, well...guess what the mister sorely wants now but can't find?!  That's right, the OLD Marine has decided it's time to get plugged in (at least the TV as he simply cannot live without it because it's football season and Tennessee has a team this year!) and he is in a sour-state because he can't find one anywhere!!  He is desperate I tell you!  Desperate enough to make a late night trip to Home Depot to offer up our bank account and/or one of our children for a generator!  I'm sure they are still laughing, along with the generator guys at Lowes and Costco because they were all…