You can call me Dixie. All my friends do. And since I'm sharing most of my thoughts with you then you can call me that too. Dixe is a nickname given to me by my friend Ranger, also a nickname. I work most days alone in my house and I have a lot to say, a lot of stories to tell. So I'll say it all to you, the bloggers.
Persimmons are yummy. Wait till it turns kind of a deep orange (it won't get red), and is just the teensiest bit soft to the touch, ie - not hard, but not even remotely squishy either. Then cut it up like you would an apple and eat it like you would an orange (ie, not eating the skin). Mmm. i have some persimmons ripening in my kitchen right now. It must have been farm weekend everywhere - i took isaiah and a friend of his to a local farm and we tasted chard and fennel and broccoli in the fields and hung out with a pig and some chickens. Good times. I also bought a half flat of strawberries and the two of them ate a pint apiece on the way home. Then last night i made strawberry jam, but it turned out kind of funky looking. Oddly cloudy. Oh well, i'm sure it will still eat.
The fields around me are filled with pumpkins right now. Many of them are "pick your own" which means you can pull over on the side of the road, wander around till you find a pumpkin you like, yank it off the vine, put $1 in the bucket at the front of the field, and drive away. I was so excited the first year I lived here and got to do that. I totally felt like I was Linus in the pumpkin patch, surrounded by big orange globes as I waited for the Great Pumpkin to arrive!
My favorite Halloween card of all times was given to me when I was a child. We kept it because it had "Great Pumpkin Halloween Carols." Snoopy and the gang danced around while the lyrics of several Christmas songs were changed into Halloween Carols. My favorite was to the tune of "Silver Bells" and the chorus went "Shiver yells, shiver yells, it's Halloween nitty gritty. We're not home. Leave us alone. Halloween's just one night a year." It was awesome!
even better . . . here is the link to the Halloween carols. You can't do better than "The Great Pumpkin's Comin' to Town"! http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hall/hallcarol.html
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Persimmons are yummy. Wait till it turns kind of a deep orange (it won't get red), and is just the teensiest bit soft to the touch, ie - not hard, but not even remotely squishy either. Then cut it up like you would an apple and eat it like you would an orange (ie, not eating the skin). Mmm. i have some persimmons ripening in my kitchen right now.
It must have been farm weekend everywhere - i took isaiah and a friend of his to a local farm and we tasted chard and fennel and broccoli in the fields and hung out with a pig and some chickens. Good times. I also bought a half flat of strawberries and the two of them ate a pint apiece on the way home. Then last night i made strawberry jam, but it turned out kind of funky looking. Oddly cloudy. Oh well, i'm sure it will still eat.
The fields around me are filled with pumpkins right now. Many of them are "pick your own" which means you can pull over on the side of the road, wander around till you find a pumpkin you like, yank it off the vine, put $1 in the bucket at the front of the field, and drive away. I was so excited the first year I lived here and got to do that. I totally felt like I was Linus in the pumpkin patch, surrounded by big orange globes as I waited for the Great Pumpkin to arrive!
My favorite Halloween card of all times was given to me when I was a child. We kept it because it had "Great Pumpkin Halloween Carols." Snoopy and the gang danced around while the lyrics of several Christmas songs were changed into Halloween Carols. My favorite was to the tune of "Silver Bells" and the chorus went "Shiver yells, shiver yells, it's Halloween nitty gritty. We're not home. Leave us alone. Halloween's just one night a year." It was awesome!
even better . . . here is the link to the Halloween carols. You can't do better than "The Great Pumpkin's Comin' to Town"! http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hall/hallcarol.html
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