My Pumpkins are Weeping?

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I don't raise a really wide variety of veggies, never have. But, I will try to take care of anything that is forced on me or falls into my hands. This time around, it's volunteer pumpkins. I found two growing from the same vine over in a weed patch that was a pumpkin machine back in 2014. I watched them develop and finally picked them today when I saw they had achieved good color and the stems and vine had turn black.

I brought them in and washed the dirt and debris off and set them on a towell to dry. An hour later, my DW moved them to another location on our kitchen island. After about another 30 minutes, I happened to look at them and noticed that there was a collection of water around the stem area. I had broken them off the vine and there was no "three inches of stem" left on them.

Here's the pictures below and my question is whether or not this is normal (we've had more than our share of rain over the last two weeks) and what are the consequences if this is not a good thing. I had thought about saving some of the seeds. I may just try to get a couple of small jack O' lanterns out of them. I'm mostly interested in whether or not the seeds should be good.