DIY: Watermelon Baskets

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Watermelons baskets are a simple but gorgeous addition to any summer festivity!

I found this brief tutorial on Living My New Simple Life.com.

Are you going to a cookout, picnic, or family get together this Memorial Day weekend?

I thought I would share something fun and easy to do that always wows everyone!

A watermelon basket filled with beautiful, colorful, fruit.

Here are the 4 steps that are easy to follow.

Step 1 – Place watermelon width-wise on a flat surface.  Roll melon until it settles into a position where it remains stable or cut a thin slice from the bottom to provide stability.  As shown, use strips of masking tape to mark lines of handle and rim of basket.

Step 2 – With a sharp knife, cut outline of handle, using outside edges of masking tape as a guide.  To make a scallop template, cut out a paper circle with scissors.  (The size of the melon determines the size of the circle.  The watermelon shown is small so the circle used is relatively small.)  Fold circle in half and cut along fold.  Starting on either side of handle, place the straight edge of one paper semicircle on top edge of masking tape that forms rim.  With a sharp pencil, trace a row of scallops along rim, stopping just before reaching ends of melon.  At each end, draw remaining scallop freehand, connecting the gap.

Step 3 – Using a sharp knife, cut into the watermelon along the scalloped pencil lines.  Next, cut a large wedge from the area on both sides of the handle, leaving about an inch above the scalloped rim.  Remove wedge, inserting knife behind the scallops, cut straight down into the melon close to the rind, cutting deep enough to release top part of rim.  Lift and discard.

Step 4 – Remove masking tape.  Scoop out watermelon from rind.  For a fruit basket, add a mixture of fresh fruit combined with watermelon cut into one-inch cubes or melon balls. I have never been able to make the watermelon balls so I always cut into cubes.

The finished look is really awesome.

SOURCE: LOVINGMYNEWSIMPLELIFE.COM

Once you master the basics, you can try further embellishing your basket.

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  1. i don’t think these people researched whether or not there were jobs in their field in their locations before jumping on the college band wagon. $150,000 for a masters in social work? after getting a full scholarship ride for his initial degree. now, he’s decided not to pay…it’s not worth it. smh
    FTA
    Federal student loan bills return in October. But a growing chorus of borrowers say they simply can’t, or won’t pay.
    That includes Amanda Acevedo, 37, who is raising three kids on a radiographer’s salary and has $40,000 in student debt. For the past three years, she and millions of other Americans didn’t need to worry about student loans after payments were paused at the start of the pandemic. The forbearance allowed her to pay off credit card debt and save for a down payment on a house in Orlando.
    Now, with inflation driving up the cost of everything, from utilities and food to gas and car payments, Acevedo says she can’t pay the extra $412-a-month bill she’ll owe on her student loans. She doesn’t think she should have to either.
    “Millennials like me have gone through so many economic crises and watched these corporations and banks get bailed out — meanwhile, we can’t pay the student loans we were told we needed for success,” Acevedo said. “We’re telling our elected representatives we’re struggling, but they’re not doing anything to help.”
    To prepare for the restart of payments on Oct. 1, the Biden administration has instituted a one-year leniency program to protect borrowers’ credit. Those with loans have been encouraged to apply for various repayment plans based on income. Still, frustrations expressed on social media have been growing louder after the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Joe Biden’s one-time loan forgiveness plan.
    In a TikTok with over 230,000 views, Shahem Mclaurin, a 29-year-old social worker in New York City, said he was disappointed in the country’s political leaders and argued borrowers should ignore their payments as a form of protest.
    Mclaurin, who attended undergrad on a full-ride scholarship and took out $150,000 in federal student loans for his master’s in social work at New York University, said he was taught that education was one of the only ways to get out of poverty. Now, he’s saddled with debt and says he doesn’t qualify for federal public service loan forgiveness, adding to his frustration and financial woes.
    “This is the American dream — I did everything right,” said Mclaurin, whose standard monthly payment would be about $1,700. “Now, I’m going to stay in the same income bracket, because I’ll have a looming debt hanging over me for the rest of my life.”

    https://archive.is/80Xux

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  2. so a jury of 12 people came to the conclusion that this person’s crimes were horrendous enough to merit the death penalty, but last month ultra maggot’s ag declared a moratorium on the federal death penalty. i call BS.
    FTA
    As NBC reported:

    For months before the attack, the gunman, Robert Bowers, posted incessantly on social media about his hatred of Jewish people and immigrants. Armed with an AR-15 and other weapons, he then barged into the Tree of Life Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018 and surrendered only when he ran out of ammunition.

    The jury received the case late Monday, then shortly before noon on Wednesday, announced they had reached a verdict on the death penalty.

    The judge will impose the death sentence on Thursday morning.

    The American Jewish Committee said that “what should always be top of mind is the memory” of the victims murdered by “a cold-blooded hater of Jews.”

    “Ultimately what is of most significance is not how the shooter will spend the end of his life, but the fact that the U.S. government pursued this case with vigor and demonstrated that such crimes will not be countenanced, excused, or minimized,” it said.

    The 11 Jewish worshippers who were murdered were Joyce Fienberg, 75; Richard Gottfried, 65; Rose Mallinger, 97; Jerry Rabinowitz, 66; Cecil Rosenthal, 59; David Rosenthal, 54; Bernice Simon, 84; Sylvan Simon, 86; Daniel Stein, 71; Irving Younger, 69; and Melvin Wax, 87.

    Bowers’ case marked the first time federal prosecutors sought and won a death sentence under Biden’s administration. However, Bowers will not be executed while Biden remains in office.

    In July 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland imposed an execution moratorium, in line with Biden’s campaign promise to end the federal death penalty.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Fbiden-moratorium-on-death-penalty-protects-worst-mass-murderer-of-jews-in-u-s-history%2F

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  3. “New York Post – That’s a ballsy move! A Lufthansa pilot allegedly upset over being forced to divert his flight from Catania flew the commercial plane in a penis-shaped pattern before landing in Malta. Flight 306 took off from Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday and was bound for the Sicilian city until the plane was warned mid-flight that it could not land at the Fontanarossa airport, which was seeing reduced operations following a terminal fire in July.

    The Lufthansa pilot, who has not been identified, allegedly grew irritated about having to stall the plane before being told the flight would need to fly south and land on the island of Malta. Before leaving Catania’s airspace, the plane was spotted heading eastward toward the Sicilian coast and flying in such a way that the flight path created the shape of male genitalia, according to images recorded by air traffic website Flight Radar.”

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  7. Birds are strange…2-3 days with hardly any birds at all and now, the finches are all over the suet, jelly and the seed feeder! Last evening, I was watching the barn swallows in my front yard, flying willy-nilly chasing bugs – they occasionally misjudge and smack into the front window/door. There were some near misses but no hits this time. I catch flashes of their copper-colored underside as they dip and sway back and forth.

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    1. i love to bird watch!!!
      our hummers are draining the 4 feeders every other day!
      not a single oriole though. the swallows are everywhere though

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  8. Mike Robinson
    August 3, 2023 1:21 pm
    Reply to Citizen 817

    It is “the Article-2 mission” of The President to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed.” As a one-person BRANCH of Government, he can’t be accused of committing any crime by carrying out his Oath of Office as he sees fit. He is “immune,” just like a member of Congress who is speaking from the floor (and lying through his teeth).

    “Election fraud” is a Felony. If you think you see it happening, and you’re The President, you can’t keep silent. You’re not allowed to.

    You can find many settled SCOTUS decisions which say exactly the same. “The President” is not merely an individual: he IS(!!) “Article 2.”

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  9. goodness…the hummers are sniffing each out. when one guards the feeders, the others will find places to st close by and try to sneak to a feeder. they sit on the wooden swing chains; they sit in the small tree on the deck near the bottom; they even sit on the grill frame hidden in the back of the grill. but this male is flying to those hiding places and sniffing them out and challenging them. BUT they are decoys…LOL…while he chases one on the right side of the deck…several swarm the feeders on the front and vice versa…comical to watch!

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        1. Oh, a lot, from casual poking at each other to mid-air fights. I see Orioles chase others off the jelly feeder, even if it’s only one other bird, all the way on the other side. Females generally are less territorial. But then there are times when there is peace, birds feeding each other, like the WPs. I’m assuming they are siblings or partners.

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            1. It’s the suet that brings them here – tons of them! No suet = no WPS, altho the RH ones did hit the open seed feeder I had hanging over the garden beds – they love the sunflower seeds.

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  10. “You need to be a bit more terrified? No problem…The media has merged Aliens and viruses! That should do it…”

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  12. Old Train Thursday, Cog Trains

    Achenseebahn Cog Railways, Austria

    Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway, 1890

    Mt Washington Cog Railways.

    Pikes Peak Cog Railway

    First Cog Railways, Middleton Railway, West Yorkshire UK, 1812. Used to haul coal trains.

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  13. Sylvester Marsh built first Cog Railway in America on Mount Washington, NH in 1869


    Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn Railways on Mount Rigi, Switzerland started 1871.

    Mt Pilatus, Pilatus Cog Railways. 7000ft and a 48% grade

    Another view of the Pilatus Cog

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          1. Oh, HELL NO!!!! Never in a million years would you get me on something like that! Nuh-uh!!!! I did the ski-lift thing at the Henry Doorly Zoo and that was high enough, thank you!!!

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              1. I guess – IDK what you call those things – a ski-lift thingy. OK – it’s called the Skyfari – the ground was probably 30-40 feet below us:

                “Enjoy a new view of your Zoo! Visitors can enjoy the thrill of being lifted in an open-air chairlift to spectacular treetop views while traveling from the Berniece Grewcock Butterfly and Insect Pavilion to the African Grasslands.”

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  14. Locomotive from the cog railway in Puchberg/Schneeberg in Austria.



    Invented by Emil Strub, 1896. Riggenbach Cog System.

    Snowdon locomotive making its way up the mountain.

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  17. “TRUMP INDICTMENT: Timing! President Trump and the Looking Glass”
    POLITICAL MOONSHINE
    AUG 3, 2023

    EXCERPT: “Timing is perhaps the most revealing aspect of evidence that shines a light on the truth, which is why the old adage remains a sturdy and reliable one: timing is everything. The timing of President Donald J. Trump’s most recent indictment handed-down by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is critical relative to the broader timeline. Smith’s indictment of Trump came the day after Biden family business associate Devon Archer testified in Congress about the nature of Hunter Biden’s crimes in Ukraine and the direct involvement of President Joe Biden; something he previously denied ad nauseam.

    Smith, however, has opened a portal of lawfare that he and Obama-appointed Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has an embattled history with Trump and a track record as a judicial thug imprisoning Americans for exercising their First Amendment rights on 06 Jan 21, will have to carefully manage.

    The portal opened by Smith that requires extremely careful management is the discovery process; also known as the ‘looking glass.’ In 2020, I wrote several articles in a small series examining the fraudulent prosecution of Lt. General Michael Flynn at the hands of compromised and corrupt Judge Emmett Sullivan as a functionary in traitorous AG William Barr’s Department of Justice. In that examination, I defined the ‘looking glass’: “Looking Glass” is rooted in its use as a colloquial term for the process of discovery whereby both sides of a lawsuit are entitled to examine all of the evidence in the case.

    The caveat here is the judge as the gatekeeper of evidence and whereby rulings of admissibility bear down with great might. The jury can’t contemplate something a judge never permits it to see. Ergo, Chutkan bears down with the same force and that stands to be problematic.

    The term ‘looking glass’ was placed into the dialogue by attorney Sidney Powell, who was litigating the case against Lt. General Michael Flynn and I reported on this back in September 2020 when she made the statement. In the Flynn case, Powell said, ‘In closing I would just say that Mr. Gleeson continues to be lost in the rabbit hole on the other side of the looking glass. Where nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t and contrary to what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be it would. It’s all backwards. It’s upside down. In a different scenario he himself notes the prosecutor can do justice by the simple act of going back to court and agreeing that justice should be done.

    The importance of the Department of Justice being able to self correct to maintain its own reputation and to restore faith with the public in the Department of Justice itself, is hugely important. As Mr. Gleeson wrote then, ‘Doing justice can be harder, it takes time, it involves work, including careful consideration for the circumstances for particular crimes. The victims and often relevant events occurred in the distant past. It requires a willingness to make hard decisions including some that will be criticized.’ — Attorney Sidney Powell

    Powell’s remarks apply to Chutkan as the gatekeeper of evidence and now you can see the problematic aspects I cite. Here we must pause to properly understand the big picture, which again draws down on timing, to provide meaning to our sequence of events. Relative to the timing, in early January 2020, Lt. Gen. Flynn was positioned to enter the Trump Administration as National Security Advisor. As Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor, Flynn participated in the compulsory presidential transition meetings occurring on 13 Jan 17………..

    https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/trump-indictment-timing-president

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      1. then there’s this…so many differing viewpoints

        Alex1689
        August 3, 2023 3:48 pm
        Reply to dutchman

        This is exactly correct.

        The alleged “crime” rests on proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the election was not stolen and that President Trump knew it was not stolen but falsely claimed it was stolen in order to attack the election through making people believe an untruth.

        Every other court case brought concerning the rigging of the election was dismissed on procedural grounds such as lack of standing. No court has actually heard evidence on the question.

        Here, we have a criminal matter, not a civil matter.

        Not only does the government now have to prove a negative (it will probably try to rely on the certification by Congress as dispositive under the Constitution), but President Trump has key constitutional rights not available in a civil case.

        He has a 6th Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers, he has the right to subpoena witnesses in his defense, and he has the right to present expert witnesses in his defense.

        In other words, unless Judge Chutkan denies him his basic rights (a possibility but one that would come at a VERY considerable cost to the judicial system’s credibility), President Trump can:

        – Call Ruby Freeman to explain her actions that we all saw on videotape

        – Call any number of experts to demonstrate how easily hacked the Dominion machines really are

        – subpoena and examine the SLOGS in all five states that ceased operations at 10:30 p.m.

        – Call and examine the Georgia election officials who lied about the water leak

        – Call the Congresscritters who were prepared to present objections to the certification of the election as witnesses in his defense

        – present the geocaching data for the mules

        – call the Konnech executives

        – put Chris Krebs on the stand

        And on and on and on.

        How do you introduce all the evidence legally, by the book?

        Trial of the century. An American public with eyes glued on the proceedings.

        I predict a huge fight over whether it will be televised.

        Considering all of this, I just have one question:

        What do the white hats have on Jack Smith? Or “whatever his name really is?”

        Why would a key apparatchik of the DS open the magnetic lock on the judicial system to allow President Trump to give the American public a guided tour of the system that has stolen their elections for decades?

        That’s not just shooting yourself in the foot, that’s blowing off both legs.

        It’s so beautiful. So beautiful. It almost brings a tear to my eye.

        Moar popcorn.

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  18. Hmmm…Brett Baier actually brought up a good point – we don’t know who else is named but he said Jenna Ellis and Mark Meadows are not mentioned in the indictment – I have no idea how he would know. The whole premise of this charge is that Trump knew he was lying about there being a constitutional option of returning the vote for re-certification by the States. Might one of them decide to CYA and admit, “well, he told me he didn’t really believe that but decided to go forward anyway….?”

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  19. From a Laura Loomer Tweet: “Stuck at the airport so I grabbed some food. I sat down to eat and the waiter was from Hong Kong. He asked me where I’m going and I said back to the US. He said “oh you live in America? I saw today they arrest Trump.”

    I asked him what he thought about it. He said it’s obvious they are trying to stop him from being President. Folks, it’s so obvious that a waiter from Hong Kong at the airport in Europe can tell what is really happening. He then said he loves Trump because Trump “gets things done and is tough on China.”

    The rest of the world is watching. And they can see through this charade for what it is. ELECTION INTERFERENCE.”

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  20. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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