Lets hear it for orchards! Hooray!

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I got apples, apple cider donuts, and one 20 pound pumpkin! Hooray Milburn orchards! Where's my buddy Quiggifur, and the rest of you, for that matter? I don't ask because I am an impatient, annoying little freak, which I can be sometimes, I ask because I have a unique idea to share with you all. Here it is: Ditch those annoying pumpkin carving knives and saws (wasteful things that they are, limiting your awesome skillage in pumpkin carving and fettering your minds, shutting them away from the possibilities!), and use a clay shaping tool to reduce the pumpkin to a pulpy, pale yellow 3D masterpiece. I saw a dude make a rocking Native American head out of a pumpkin using this method on Sunday Morning, a TV show. It works, and it will win points for you in your children's eyes when they see Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse in the flesh (get it?! In the flesh?!?!?... Crickets are chirping...:grumpy: fine, I admit it, I'm a terrible comedian.) Anyway:D I'm still relatively new, but what is the tradition for All Hallows Eve? I know its a Christianity oriented thing, but, hey, I like to carve pumpkins, and I am not affiliated with any sort of religion, (and I like Kit Kats...and Reese's, and chocolate and peanut butter and all that good stuff.) so why can't we celebrate just for the heck of it, just for celebrating our primitive but hard working ancestors? And I do NOT mean that anyone who practices religion is primitive. I will also NOT discuss what I did mean, because I do NOT want strife to visit this forum in the form of arguing over religion, a very debatable subject, just like politics. Not going to happen in my thread.... Well, peace everyone! Have a happy October! Let's keep this thread Autumn oriented, and picture FILLED, primarily with pumpkins, and primarily with pumpkins carved in the method I described, though traditional is allowed I guess...:grumpy: Just kidding, these are just loose guidelines. Post about whatever you like, and remember I love conversation, include me if you can, if not, I'll live.
On a different note, on the way to Milburn Orchards, there was roadkill...a dead skunk. It was appalling to look at, and almost as traumatizing to my POOR NOSE!:) Actually, a smilie is not very appropriate. It was sad.
Peace.
David
 
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I know a girl who totalled a new camaro trying to avoid a squirrel...for real!
My rule of thumb is
1. try to avoid hitting stuff
2. try REALLY hard to avoid hitting stuff that will seriously damage the car
3. If it's a deer? Pray for the best and expect the worst...

Ps. I like orchards too... Grew up in Apple country... The best was when the orchard's yield would drop? They'd let us come in with chainsaws, charge a fiver a tree, and we had firewood baby! Apple burns great too...I miss the apple harvest festivals though... :-(
 
Nothing like the smell of apple wood, indeed...hope this girl you knew has insurance, cars ain't drops in a bucket, thats for sure. And, yes, the car is more important than the squirrel in that case, especially if you are in the forsaken wilderness of a backroad in the middle of Alaska, all alone...with a serial mauler bear on the loose, no less. And I meant that as lightheartedly as possible. Bears are cool, when they are not terrorizing you, mauling you, or adorning one's wall as taxidermy. Peace.
 
Wow, am I late. Sorry about that, been really busy with work lately, and trying to actually do things during the times I'm not working, aside from sit at the computer and feel dead. I haven't forgot about you, don't worry.

It's funny you mention orchards, we had one up in New York that I've been thinking about a lot lately, what was the name of it... Kelly's Farm Market in Hilton, I think it was. We used to go in the fall every year for the donuts and cider. I really do miss cider, it doesn't seem to be as big down here in Tennessee. Pumpkin carving was my least favorite part of the season, but I always did like the seeds.

I've been considering picking out some holidays to celebrate that have fewer religious associations. I absolutely refuse to celebrate christmas (if it were possible, I'd refuse to acknowledge its existence), but I do like Thanksgiving. Never was much for halloween.

Again, sorry it's been so long. It's been a decent week for me though, on a whim I googled Opeth Tuesday night, and found out they were playing in Nashville (with Katatonia no less) about 5 miles from where I work the next night. I can't even imagine what the chances of that are. Anyway, I went to that, and it was amazing. Then I went out again Friday with a group, and that was great too. I'm realizing that I really need to get out more, it's a lot better than what I've been doing.
 
Oh, it's all right dude. This thread of mine was kind of a flop to begin with, not to say that YOU made it a flop, I DID. But, I'd rather not get into the negative things I do, unless you REALLY want to hear it, but yeah...well, I'm very glad that you are getting out, buddy! I am not positive if you have my condition (but what do I know! :), but I am positive that getting out, and doing things you love to do, is VERY good for you, and that is about all the wisdom I can safely impart to you without overstepping my eclectic collection of knowledge. Don't you worry about me, dude, all I'm suffering from is a chronic case of boredom, and that can be fixed EASILY with some good solid motivation and work ethic, which, believe it, I do have...somewhere inside me...I just have to find it....Again I am happy to know that you are keeping yourself busy, especially outside of work, though I am sorry to hear you have been feeling dead occasionally, I know the feeling of dead-ness so intimately, I should marry it or something, it is no fun......no fun at all.... But yeah, don't sweat it, man, I know you wouldn't forget about me, its all good. Peace, everyone.
David
 
I love the harvest season. Apples are a big part of it. I went to the Apple Harvest Festival in Arendsville, PA. on Saturday. Anything that could possibly be made with apples was for sale. It was also a lot of crafts and stuff that I could only take so much of.
Great food,beautiful country and I saw an awesome band performing. They have several stages set up through out the grounds with bands playing all day. It was a cool day with a very light rain . I came out of a display building and heard a truly awesome female voice. I moved towards the sound and what I heard and saw was nothing short of
amazing. I mean, I wondered what the hell this band was doing playing in front a few folks who were hardy enough to sit on the straw bales in the rain. These guys deserve a much larger venue. I watched one set and came back an hour later for another. I didn't take a camera because of the rain. I sure wish that I had.
Considering the venue and weather conditions this band was out to make a name for themselves. They are fronted by a hot blond haired chick with an over powering voice.
They write some of their own material and do cover songs. They are basically a country band with a rock and roll heart. The name of the band is Mason Vixen. Google them and you should be able to find a song or two. They only played on Saturday, but if you live near the area It's a nice drive and some good clean fun with lots of good food.

It's all good man. No flop here unless you want it to be. Thanks for the opportunity.
 
I grew up about 8 miles from there! Haven't been to the festival in 5 yrs or so... Always a good time... I always dug the steam engine and classic car displays too!
 
Wow, she is very beautiful, I must say! I would, if I were an ordinary person, say that I was sorry I missed it, but actually, I'm not...in a way. And not because I'm being a rude freak, but because I can't stand loud noise, it makes me freak out when my dad yells at me, and concerts are even worse than him at full volume. Sorry, guys, if I'm being a drag, hopefully I'm not, most of what I see in the mirror is negative, so any help to see the positive is greatly appreciated (like, for example, knowing that you guys forgive me my offending statement of the past. I kind of expected you would, you all would not be quite as awesome as you are if you were not so forgiving of well-meaning-accidents-waiting-to-happen, such as myself.) But, anyway, sounds cool Surf, I LOVE steam engines, I just can't get enough of them, them and a good, enormously complex and huge train, that is cool stuff to me. I almost bought a Pacific something Big Boy (a tiny scale replica of one of the greatest and biggest locomotives known to exist), and I almost regret not having completed the transaction on eBay.
So, yeah, I never want my threads to be flop, though I thank you, again, Mossyhorn (I love using account names instead of real names, I'm waiting for the day someone names themselves Megatron or something so I can bust out some Optimus Prime quotes and maybe meet a fellow Transformers fan. I loved the Michael Bay movies for the incredible CGI work on the Transformers, and the voice acting of the robots, but I did not like anything else about the movies, as they were, in my biased and strong opinion, substandard in all other aspects. I most of all appreciate the animation of the Transformers because I am an artist, and I tried and failed numerous times in my life to achieve such incredible, life like realism and complexity in my artwork.) for reminding me that my life is what I and I alone make of it. If I want to be miserable, I can be miserable for the rest of my life and stay like this, but if I want to be better, its all uphill from there, though rewards will be there on the way up to provide just enough incentive, if I can realize they are there when I start climbing, it will all be worth it.
Well, peace everyone, thank you all for sharing your orchard experiences with me.
David
 
LOL! Huge fan of old trains too... Didn't even realize it until I toured the natl. rail museum in yorkshire england... They converted an ENTIRE roundhouse and siding into a museum! We spent hours walking around and even explored the warehouse as well... Highly reccd...

Not liking loud noises must be rough... I was thinking about most of my hobbies etc. and 90% of em are probably unhealthy for zee ears! lol!! Shooting, Fire Works, Concerts, Football, and whatever else I've forgotten!!
 
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Oh, I live with it, wear my Surefire Ear Defenders and Ryobi Ear muffs occasionally, but, really, its a drop in the bucket compared to, say, being blind, or deaf, or mute, or having near death bouts of pain in the back, (a little reference to Eric there). I could have been so much worse off than Asperger's alone, not to say that Asperger's is not a pain when it wants to be, but that some things are worse than extreme anxiety and a loathesome imagination, some things are worse than difficulty perceiving social situations, like full blown, full body cancer, or a Gaboon Viper snake bite (according to a show I watched, its venom makes the victim suffer the worst pain you can POSSIBLY feel, I think it pops your blood cells or something awful like that, and its slow acting, so you writhe in mindless agony for hours...*shudder*) Anyway...I'm glad you do the things you love to do, that is super cool, surfadelic23. Well, gotta go. Peace everyone.
David
 
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