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 First off decide on a design that you would like to carve into your pumpkin. Doing this first will give you an idea of what you need as well as an idea of the size of pumpkin needed. You need to pick a pumpkin that will suit the design in mind..
When you go to pick out your pumpkin pick the nicest and healthiest looking pumpkin you can find. You’ll want to pick the one without bruises, nicks, and cuts. Make sure your pumpkin is ripe as well. Another thing to make sure of is that your pumpkin has a long stem. This will become the handle to your lid. If you want to, you can also wash the pumpkin off so that it is clean and stays healthy longer.
We put down newspaper down on a flat surface so as not to get your workspace messy and it also makes for an easier clean-up. Measure 2-5 inches down from the stem, this will be where you will cut around, making your lid. After you have cut your lid, remove it. On the underside, scrape off excess gunk, making the surface smooth then start scooping the pumpkin guts out “the best part” make sure you get out as much as possible, also make sure the bottom is flat so that if you are putting a candle inside it will stand up..
Once all the scooping is done start to trace your design on [...]
 I went to a honey farm recently and they had a small book on the history of the apron that i should have bought but didn’t and now here i am wondering what that history is.. From what i discovered from various sources was that the principal use for an apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven. My grandmother still wear’s one today and i have worn one on occasion but not often.
We all remember old movies were the mother collected eggs from the chicken coop and popped them in a scooped up Apron, i remember my grandmother putting her pegs in the front pocket when she went to hang clothes outside on a spring day, or using it to wipe food off one of her grandchildrens face.
Now that i think of it Aprons bring a feeling of comfort, memories of a mother or grandmother tending to her family in various way’s and her Apron being an extension of her, a place to put utensils whilst cooking and tending to homework and chores.
It will be a long time before someone finds something that will replace that old-time apron that served so many purposes and for some reason seemed to hold a family together.
Morrigan
 1. Honor no other Gods but the Gods of your own Folk as alien gods destroy you.
2. Nature’s Laws evidence the Divine Plan, as the natural world is the work of All-Father.
3. Act nobly and courageously, always carefully considering the consequences, as the effects of your deeds live on after you pass from Midgard.
4. Live within the reality of this life; fear not your fate, as fear is for fools and cowards. A valorous man boldly faces what the Norns decree.
5. Love, protect, reproduce, and advance your Folk; as natural instinct prohibits miscegenation and self destruction.
6. Be honest, be disciplined, be productive and loyal to friends, as the Aryan spirit strives for excellence in all things.
7. Treasure your history, your heritage, and racial identity as your ancestors have entrusted. It falls with you, it will rise with you.
8. Honor the memory of your kith and kin, especially those who have given their lives or freedom for the Folk, as your race lives on through your blood and your will.
9. Respect the wisdom of your elders, as every moment of your lives links the infinite past with the infinite future.
10. Honor your mate, provide for your children, and carry no quarrel with family to sleeptime, as family is your purpose and fulfillment.
11. May your word to a kinsmen be a Bond of Steel, as your troth is your dignity and strength of character.
12. Be cunning as the fox with enemies [...]
 Elizabeth Fry grew up in a wealthy family, the daughter of a wealthy banker, Mr. Gurney. She enjoyed a very comfortable life at Earlham Hall, England. However, at the age of 17 she decided to become an out and out Quaker. She adopted a plain style of dress, gave up music, dancing, and ornaments, and looked about for charitable work. She started a school for village children, instructing 70 urchins twice a week and holding a service for them on Sundays. Even at this young age, Elizabeth showed the firmness of character for which she became celebrated.
Elizabeth’s father, although a devout member of a Quaker family, highly disapproved of her rigid code of life, he felt that an attractive young girl like herself ought not waste her youth in this manner. So he welcomed Joseph Fry, who had fallen in love with Elizabeth’s flaxen haired, unassuming beauty and devout nature, and invited him to Earlham to encourage their match. After much persuasion and Joseph’s promise never to hinder her in her charity work, she accepted him.
In 1800,when Elizabeth was just 20, they married, and went to live in St. Mildred’s Court London. Joseph was wealthy, but Elizabeth would have no useless ornaments about her, but they kept an open house in the manner of Quakers, and entertaining the advent of children in rapid succession kept her very busy. Soon she began to visit the London poor and she was appointed the visitor of the Islington workhouse. She was [...]
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