Dawn's Blog » 2008 http://lakebreeze.org/blog3 Family stuff, holidays, knitting Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:13:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Emily and I carved pumpkins tonight http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2008/10/29/emily-and-i-carved-pumpkins-tonight/ http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/2008/10/29/emily-and-i-carved-pumpkins-tonight/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:45:16 +0000 Dawn http://lakebreeze.org/blog3/?p=301 Continue reading →]]> We are busy tomorrow evening and were too busy last weekend, too. Tonight was the only night we could do it. Emily carved the little pumpkin, in her botany class, so they could learn the parts of the pumpkin. The rind is called the exoderm. The edible part of the pumpkin is the endoderm, and the divisions inside, where the goop is and the seeds, is called the carpals. I took a picture of my pumpkin, right after I cut the top off, so you could see the carpals.

She designed a horse picture, for her bigger pumpkin and realized that you have to have positive areas and negative areas, to make the design show up properly. Mine is just a face, because I have no time or patience for templates. I’m lucky I have a carved pumpkin.

Emily and Dawn's Pumpkins - 08

I’m behind on posting dishcloths. I hope to catch up this weekend. I know I have to post both Octobers for sure!

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Casting their lot in the worm-poop business

So, he went out later and bought me some.  Today, I planted the geraniums, vincas and spikes, with the worm castings added to the soil!  We’ll see if it makes a difference!  I can’t wait.  I do have starter pictures taken and will post later.  I have to be somewhere right now.

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