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“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale
When was the last time you ditched the plan to just breathe, trust, let go and let life happen? How could your life change if you did this?
Today I decide to post a fun Friday Extra. This is a blast from the past, originally posted in 2012. My mom was a great cook, but used a lot of short cuts and convenience foods. So when I left home I started exploring things like scratch baking, making my own bread, canning and yes, cooking and freezing my own pumpkin. Is still do this every year. In fact my 2021 pumpkin is in the freezer now in nice little 1 cup packages.
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Every year around this time I go through the autumn tradition I call killing the fatted pumpkin. This is when I cook wonderful fresh pie pumpkins and freeze the puree for the rest of the year.
Cooking fresh pumpkin is easy:
1. Choose a nice orange pie pumpkin.
2. Cut pumpkin in half.
3. Scoop out seeds.
4. Place cut side up or down (either works) in a baking dish with about 1/2 – 1 inch of water.
5. Cover with foil and bake 1 hr. at 350 degrees.
6. Remove from oven. When cool enough to handle scoop out cooked pumpkin. Mash pumpkin or if very soft just give it a good stir.
7. Prepare 1 and 2 cup containers of pumpkin for freezer.
8. Freeze and enjoy homemade pumpkin goodies all year.
“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the ones who tell us how to navigate, breathe, feel, think, enjoy, and fully live our lives. (“Because the world had corona”)”― Erik Pevernagie
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” – Eckhart Tolle
Today’s photo is of one of the fairy doors that mysteriously started appearing in trees in a Nebraska park. Eventually more and more faeries started moving in and created quite a community.
How do you take a break from the seriousness of the world? Please share your thoughts below.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasure. — Lao Tzu
Simplicity, patience and compassion are the greatest things we can possess. We may spend years of struggle seeking after them only to discover there were right there waiting for us all along.
“All of life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opportunities for you to decide and be, who you are.” — Neale Donald Walsh
This is powerful. Sit and ponder it for a minute. All of life — all of it, is a tool — for us to use, and all events are opportunities to help us decide and be, who we are. If you put this into use how would it change your life?
“You are within God. God is within you.” — Peace Pilgrim
I found this bright and cheerful video from the Collingsworth family and thought it would be good to share as a Friday extra. So go ahead and sing along then go out there and show a little bit of love and kindness.
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” – Lauren DeStefano
My favorite thing about Fall here at the lake is that things start to slow down and get quiet. The traffic through the community slows down, there aren’t as many people here. There are fewer building project going on. Life in general slows down and calms down. It’s a time to start focus more on being than doing.
What is your favorite thing about Fall? Share your thoughts and let’s talk!
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