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Beyond Recycling – Carving Pumpkins
October 30th, 2008
So you’ve carved your organic pumpkin and now it’s sitting on the front porch to celebrate the fall season and all its holidays. What do you do with what’s left on your kitchen table: carved out pieces that were removed in shapes like noses, eyes and buck teeth and a mass of pulp with seeds in it.
Warning:
Please only eat the pumpkin if you KNOW that it hasn’t been sprayed with non-food grade chemicals. Since pumpkins are usually only purchased for turning into Jack-o-Lanterns they aren’t always treated as food and may be sprayed with some nasty stuff or stored in a manner that’s not safe for eating. Thanks Eileen for this comment
Carved out pumpkin pieces
Bake and serve for dinner.
Pumpkin seeds
Remove the seeds from the pulp, rinse them and dry them then either eat them raw or roast them.
Additional Pumpkin tips
I decided I wanted to make the pumpkin smell like pumpkin pie so I put a pumpkin pie scented candle in the pumpkin. (Use caution when putting candles in pumpkins and never leave them unattended.)
Happy Halloween and Autumn!
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Beyond Recycling – Definition
October 20th, 2008
In my "Beyond Recycling" series I’m focusing on things we can do to make good use of our resources, including ourselves, to leave the future bright for our children and be responsible for ourselves and our actions now.
From the Great Laws of the Iroquois Nation: "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations"
Changes That Would Work – Determining Couples’ Tax Bracket
January 15th, 2008
Changes that would work
Following Neale Donald Walsch‘s lead of there’s no right and wrong, there’s only what works and what doesn’t work, I would like to suggest we reevaluate…
Taxing couples
As long as we have to pay taxes, and I’m looking forward to the day when we don’t, I think everyone should be taxed on an individual basis instead of a married basis.
How it works now
Basically, the way it works now, we are financially penalized for being married. Double incomes put married folks into a higher tax bracket. Say my husband and I both have incomes that are in the lowest tax bracket, individually. We would both paid 15% taxes if we weren’t married. Add them together as a married couple and now we’re in the 30% tax bracket. That’s 15% of our income that we would have kept if we weren’t married.
How it could work
Determining one’s contribution to the government (tax) based on individual earnings instead of joint earnings might even result in more married people staying married and people who are living as a married couple, without actually being married, getting married. I actually suggested to my husband that we get divorced when I get a job so we aren’t pushed into a higher tax bracket from my income.
Other reasons
Besides, people who are married usually have children and raising them costs quite a bit of money. This is a really good reason for why married folks need to keep more of their income: so they can keep their children clothed, fed and with a nice roof over their heads.
Rant
So, come on American government, prove you believe in the institution of marriage (and fairness) and change the laws to base tax "contribution" on individual income instead of joint income. (Sorry for the rant, you know I don’t usually complain but maybe someone will listen…)
Recycling Business Cards
March 18th, 2007
Got useless business cards?
Have you ever changed your company logo, phone number, web address or just gotten a new job and still have a stack of business cards left? Well, they don’t need to go directly into the recycle bin. You can reuse them before they become a recycled sheet of paper.
Options
1) I take some of those worthless little pieces of paper and use them to write myself little notes. I keep them in convenient places around the house, with a pen. I don’t carry them in my purse because I don’t want to give out an old card by mistake. This tip works great with David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done.
2) My daughter loves to draw on them. She takes them and gets creative with the design on the front and also draws pictures on the back. Hey, you never know, your child might come up with a great design for your next business card, huh?
3) Save one from each version and make a poster of the evolution of your business. I know, this only takes care of one card from each past version and you eventually have to recycle the whole thing anyway but it can be fun. Oh, course, looking back does activate former vibrations which you may or may not want to do. It’ sup to you. I haven’t done it.
4) Use them to level a wobbly table.
5) Save them to use as filler in the bottom of a vase of dried flowers. Could be colorful depending on the colors on your card.
Do you have other ideas?
Email me with your other ideas and we’ll post them here for all to see. It doesn’t pay anything but you get the credit.
Dawn of a New Day Raw Desserts
September 1st, 2006
Updated and revised to be even better!
What this book is about
If you downloaded the first edition of the Dawn of a New Day Raw Desserts e-book that I presented to you on the site back in September, this second edition has been reworked a little to include photos, clearer directions and even more loving intention! I’m sure you’ll appreciate it.
The original promo for Dawn of a New Day Raw Desserts
I love dessert and I especially love raw desserts. Believe it or not, if you have all the ingredients ready to go it takes less time to make many raw desserts than it does to make a cooked dessert. As an added bonus, raw desserts energize you, they don’t make you sleepy and the raw chocolate recipes produce a feeling of well-being. You are just going to love this.
Do you like eating dessert?
Most of us love dessert but don’t like the sluggish feeling that comes with eating them. Here’s a solution: treat your family, friends and yourself to raw desserts and eat as much as you want without feeling sleepy or eating too many sugary desserts. There’s no guarantee that you won’t gain weight since the largest factor in gaining weight is what you believe (the law of attraction as explained in Ask and It Is Given) but you’ll certainly feel better about what you’re eating.
Special recipes
Same great child and hubby approved raw food desserts, now with pictures!
It’s my gift to you. Tell your friends, pass it along, and let me know what you think.
Download the revised and updated version: Dawn of a New Day Raw Desserts