Pumpkin Slice

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When I was a kid, if you wanted to carve a pumpkin, you got Mom’s sharpest knife (and then she took it from you cuz you might cut yourself) and then you got the knife Mom thought was safe and you cut out your pumpkin face. If you were lucky, you didn’t cut yourself and the jack-o-lantern was passable.

But these days?  There are stencils and cutters to make carving pumpkins easy!

Then there are the pumpkin works of art!

Happy carving!

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        1. Pat hugs. I was finally able to find your site and log in! Been missing you.

          Doing well.
          Mom has more energy after the TAVR and pacemaker. Her hearing is better. Knee in 5 months.

          I’m doing well and so is the puppy.

          How are you doing?

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  11. Good morning, all. It’s 6 am, edt, and I’m up. Got good sleep after my sister and brother in law helped me all afternoon getting ready for cold season, inside and out. How nice to have such helpful family!

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      1. Yes. Good morning, Filly. That Carol and Slade are here for me is a blessing. I fell asleep at midnight and slept heavily for four hours. Up and rarin’ to go this AM. Sun is shining through the early clouds. Birds all around are chirping. How are you?

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        1. I’m fine, as usual – nothing new under the sun except my package delivery that will arrive soon. It’s cloudy here, temp has dropped to a chilly 38! Not many birds still here – we’re fully into fall now.

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    1. I am amazed at the PDJT one–the eyes–they look almost real!

      lol

      did you carve pumpkins as a kid?

      I bought several pumpkins one fall when i was 17–i remember it well. i was going to mash them and make fresh pumpkin pie. LOL then Mom told me these were not “pie pumpkins” but I could remove the innards, cut them up, bake them and then mash them into pumpkin puree for pies and we’d see. I carved them instead and bought a can of puree for a pie.

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      1. YummyI Sounds great. I don’ have the utensils, but might try freezing cut-up shredded pumpkin after Haloween is over. I’ve enjoyed making stuff with pumpkins before, like soup.

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  13. Good morning! Only 41 this morning; furnace still doing the start-stop-start-stop routine now and then but it’s heating at least. My 2 electric heaters will be delivered today so at least I’ll have back-up. And my mug warmer, thankfully!!! I’m still off on my wake/sleep times – woke up @ 4 AM….better than 3 AM, I guess.

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  23. Leavemygunsalone

    October 25, 2024 12:30 am

    Can we just please dissolve the Department of Homeland Security?

    DHS approved Teen-de-Aragua gang members as refugees.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/23/dhs-approved-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-refugees/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=standard&utm_campaign=morning&bt_ee=fGDASqu5Wc8PUhIf5kgxSFgL9%2BVb4ihbnjdiumXcZ78z7xI89vOfF3JRE85AerRC&bt_ts=172977842403

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  25. Just The News: “Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday announced that at least a dozen mail ballots have been stolen, filled out, and sent in so far in the 2024 general election.

    The blue-leaning state has been sending mail-in ballots to every registered voter for years, and has served as an example for other liberal states during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to NBC News. 

    Election officials said the errors were caught during the signature verification process, which compares a voter’s signature on the ballot with the one the state has in its records. Nearly all of the mistakes were caught, but three slipped through the system and were counted before they could be removed. Those ballots cannot be changed, and will count.

    The office did not indicate what political party or candidate the votes were cast for, but the Mesa County District Attorney is investigating the incident. 

    “Colorado’s elections are safe and secure,” Griswold wrote in a statement. “This attempt at fraud was found and investigated quickly because of all the trailblazing processes and tools Colorado has in place like signature verification, ballot tracking, and the curing process.”

    The ballots were all mailed into the Mesa County election office through the United States Postal Service, according to election officials, and were not left in drop boxes. No suspect has been identified so far. Voters in Colorado who are concerned about the status of their ballots can track their votes at govotecolorado.gov.”

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  26. Just The News: “The city of Surprise, Arizona, won’t get another chance to surprise Rebekah Massie with criminal prosecution for speaking at city council meetings after a Maricopa County judge dismissed the case with prejudice, rejecting the government’s request to give itself wiggle room to charge her again.

    Justice of the peace Gerald Williams called her arrest for criticizing the city attorney’s pay raise “objectively outrageous” and blasted the policy under which Massie was arrested for regulating “not just speech; but political speech” and “not just the time, place, and manner of the speech” but its content. 

    “No branch of any federal, state, or local government in this country should ever attempt to control the content of political speech,” Williams wrote in his decision Wednesday, shared with Just the News on Thursday by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which is representing Massie in a federal First Amendment lawsuit. The city ditched the policy after FIRE sued. Local attorney Bret Royle represented Massie in the criminal case. 

    “The Defendant should not have faced criminal prosecution once for expressing her political views,” the judge wrote. “The Court agrees that she should never face criminal prosecution, for expressing her political views on that date at that time, again. Nor should she be forced to encounter additional attorney fees should this matter be re-filed, as she would not likely be entitled to a court-appointed attorney.”

    Massie said in FIRE’s press release: “For more than two months I’ve been living with the threat of punishment and jail time – being taken away from my kids, even – for doing nothing more than criticizing the government. Free speech still matters in America, and I can’t tell you what a relief it is to have people on my side standing up for our rights with me.”

    The state of Arizona, which prosecuted the case, sought to dismiss it without prejudice and tried to stop Williams from determining whether Surprise had probable cause for Massie’s arrest, telling the judge he should not “view the video record of the city council meeting” because it was “irrelevant” to his pending ruling on its motion.

    The alternative to him watching the video, which Massie “referenced in the record,” is Williams ordering “an evidentiary hearing, which would be inconsistent with judicial economy given that both parties agree the charge should be dismissed” and his only question was the relevance of the video to whether Massie’s future prosecution should be banned, the judge wrote.

    FIRE’s federal lawsuit continues against the city, Mayor Skip Hall and police officer Steven Shernicoff. “We want to make it crystal clear to governments across the United States that brazenly censoring people and betraying the First Amendment comes with a cost,” FIRE attorney Conor Fitzpatrick said.” 

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  27. Just The News: “Hundreds of female golfers are petitioning the Ladies Professional Golfers Association to stop Scottish-born transgender player Hailey Davidson from playing in the final rounds of competition to qualify for a coveted spot on the women’s tour. The 31-year-old Davidson, now based in Florida, has advanced to the second-to-last round of competition, this week, according to the British newspaper The Telegraph.

    “These women have worked too hard and too long to have to stand by and watch a man compete for and take their spot,” said former pro Amy Olson, among the first to complain about Davidson, who reportedly played on a U.S. male college team. 

    Now, 275 female golfers have signed a letter sent to the LPGA and the US Golf Association urging Davidson’s removal from the qualifying tournament, according to the International Golf Federation.

    “We all know there can be no equal athletic opportunity for women without a separate female golf category,” reads the letter, as reported by sports website OutKick. “Yet, the [LPGA] continues to propagate a policy that allows male athletes to qualify, compete and win in women’s golf, even as several national and international governing bodies of sport and state legislatures increasingly reject these unjust and inequitable policies that harm female athletes.”

    The LPGA deems male-born golfers eligible if they have undergone so-called gender reassignment surgery and met hormonal therapy requirements. Davidson meets these requirements after reportedly undergoing that surgery in 2021, the Telegraph also reports. 

    Davidson, who almost qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open in June, has said in response to the outcry: “I will never understand athletes who blame a transgender competitor on their own athletic failures. If you don’t take accountability for your failures then you will never actually be good enough to make it.”

    The competition on the LPGA Tour starts with 195 players, and only those who finish in the top 35 and ties advance to final qualifying in December.” 

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  28. Just The News: “More Republicans have voted during early voting in Miami-Dade county than Democrats as of Thursday, marking the first time the county has turned red during early and absentee voting in history.

    Florida was considered a swing state for decades, but has trended Republican in recent elections. The state went to former President Donald Trump in the 2016, and the 2020 presidential elections. It is also led by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are both Republicans.

    More than 300,000 votes have been cast in the county so far, with 120,107 Republicans voting at the time of publishing. Democrats have cast a total of 117,775 votes, and 74,834 Independents have voted so far, according to live data from Florida Voice News.

    “BREAKING: In a historical development, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY is officially RED in the early + mail-in voting,” Eric Daugh, the publication’s assistant news director, posted to X. “HISTORY: No GOP presidential candidate has LOST the presidency if they WON Miami-Dade County. The trend here in Miami is also with the Republicans.”

    Republicans also make up 44% of the total votes cast statewide so far, and Democrats make up 35%.” 

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  29. Good morning, Pat and Filly!

    This was posted at QTH this morning….

    A poem shared by Daniel Caleb Bussey at the Burnsville (NC) Hub group on Facebook.

    Daniel Caleb Bussey – October 8 at 6:45 PM 

     · 
    Helene
    Bodies buried beneath the mud
    Hearts breaking above the flood
    Whispered promises and screaming sighs
    Civilian helicopters, Carolina cries

    Day by day the sirens call
    Telling the stories of us all
    We sleep in darkness, wake in silence
    Victims of a natural violence

    How can the waters take so much?
    Our nerves can only take so much
    Our souls buckling like uprooted trees
    Rivers and lakes filled with disease

    No soundness, only whimpering fury
    No solidness, only teetering inquiry
    No washing, only dirty dryness
    No wholeness, only weeping kindness

    Hands pulling from broken windows
    Feet trudging through muddied meadows
    Heroes decked in flannel and jeans
    Chainsaws humming through fallen trees

    Laughter as tears in rivulets run down
    Fighting so that we may not drown
    Healing our hearts with humor’s medicine
    Tying together shattered spirits again

    Little graces, like soft bathing rains,
    Come to us and wash us of our stains
    And night skies are cleared of man’s light
    So that God’s may shine on our darkest night

    Supplies, hot meals, closed interstates
    Curfews, exoduses, and paper plates
    Crumbling roads, beached houses, choked air,
    So much pain, but life strangely made more fair

    Sweeter tastes the air to lungs possibly lost
    And better spies the eye cleansed by tearful cost

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  30. Just The News: “The Washington Post newspaper will not be endorsing a presidential candidate this year, the publisher announced Friday.

    In a note to readers, Post publisher William Lewis said the outlet would not back a candidate for president in 2024 or “in any future presidential election.”

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  33. Just The News: “In a fresh blow to Americans’ confidence in elections, prosecutors in a key Pennsylvania county said Friday they had uncovered a large-scale scheme to submit fraudulent voter applications that were collected at shopping malls and other locations.

    Lancaster District Attorney Heather Adams told a news conference that detective have found about 60% of some 2,500 election registrations submitted in recent days to the county’s election office were fraudulent. “At this point, it is believed that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a large-scale canvassing operation for voter registrations that date back to June,” Adams said.

    The prosecutor said that while detectives continue to review applications they have confirmed fake names, identifications and signatures were used to submit applications and create potentially fake voters. In some cases, real voters names were used but the voter said they niether approved not signed the registrations.

    “At this point we have confirmed violations of our crime code,” Adams said. She added that she was aware of at least two other counties that may have similar concerns about recent voter applications dropped off in large batches. “Staff noticed that numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting (and) were filled out on the same day,” Adams said during the press conference. 

    “The confirmed indicators of fraud that detectives came across were inaccuracies with the addresses listed on the applications, fake and false personal identification information, as well as false names,” she continued. “Also, applications that had names that did not match the provided Social Security information.”

    Lancaster is a politically influential county in the battleground state and home to a large Amish population that both parties have courted. Pennsylvania’s State Department, which oversees elections, praised Lancaster County for its quick actions.

    “The Department has been in contact with the county and is offering support in its ongoing investigation. The Department applauds the efforts of the election staff for their diligent work in spotting this potential fraud and bringing it to the attention of law enforcement,” the agency said in a statement.

    “The Department guidance in cases like this is for counties to immediately contact law enforcement, which is exactly what Lancaster County officials did,” the statement added. The scheme uncovered in Lancaster County mirrors a similar operation that Michigan police uncovered in 2020 in Muskegon that was referred to the FBI, which has yet to announce any arrests or charges.”

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