Guest guest Posted October 16, 1999 Report Share Posted October 16, 1999 Haribol fellow FIVE "P" Persons Halloween is coming my favorite holiday! For you guys who don't know what I, AM, ABOUT, PAY ATTENTION, there will be a quiz at the end of the class. Halloween is a religious (sorta) holiday where children dress up as their favorite monster or demon or hero. At dark they go door to door demanding sweets and threading tricks or damage if sweets are not provided. The tricks are very seldom forthcoming. It is based on the fact that the Catholic Church felt that all the evil came out on the 31 of October and would try to wreak havoc on the villages and cites till midnight. The people would pray in the churches to be sparred. Children were given treats to quite them down during the night of prayer. In some areas all the laws were repealed and people could revenge them selves on their neighbors, without being punished. By repealing the laws for one day, the people saw how important it was to have laws. But now days it is a chalderns holiday. And Americans will cheerfully give candy and treats to the small ghosts and Edmonds that come to the door. Down to the important part of the story. All over the USA people buy pumpkins and carve faces on them and put them out as a decoration. Now get this no one eats them they just are decorations! Well, ..... I can't stand waste so I go around the day after Halloween and collect a truck full of them. some are canned for pie or soup some are dried. I just cut them up into strips and string on a wire to dry in the sun. There is lots to do with the pumpkins. Cows seem to like them! I would encourage you guys to collect and can,dry or freeze them. Eat all that free bounty that is out there. Most of the people in my neighbor hood will simply give me their pumpkins. Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 16, 1999 Report Share Posted October 16, 1999 Haribol fellow FIVE "P" Persons Halloween is coming my favorite holiday! For you guys who don't know what I, AM, ABOUT, PAY ATTENTION, there will be a quiz at the end of the class. Halloween is a religious (sorta) holiday where children dress up as their favorite monster or demon or hero. At dark they go door to door demanding sweets and threading tricks or damage if sweets are not provided. The tricks are very seldom forthcoming. It is based on the fact that the Catholic Church felt that all the evil came out on the 31 of October and would try to wreak havoc on the villages and cites till midnight. The people would pray in the churches to be sparred. Children were given treats to quite them down during the night of prayer. In some areas all the laws were repealed and people could revenge them selves on their neighbors, without being punished. By repealing the laws for one day, the people saw how important it was to have laws. But now days it is a chalderns holiday. And Americans will cheerfully give candy and treats to the small ghosts and Edmonds that come to the door. Down to the important part of the story. All over the USA people buy pumpkins and carve faces on them and put them out as a decoration. Now get this no one eats them they just are decorations! Well, ..... I can't stand waste so I go around the day after Halloween and collect a truck full of them. some are canned for pie or soup some are dried. I just cut them up into strips and string on a wire to dry in the sun. There is lots to do with the pumpkins. Cows seem to like them! I would encourage you guys to collect and can,dry or freeze them. Eat all that free bounty that is out there. Most of the people in my neighbor hood will simply give me their pumpkins. Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 1999 Report Share Posted October 17, 1999 > > Down to the important part of the story. All over the USA people buy > pumpkins and carve faces on them and put them out as a decoration. Now get > this no one eats them they just are decorations! While at the World's Largest Gourd show Mt Gilead Ohio USA first full weekend of October, I was discussing with one of the local growers what was liable to the sales tax as I had been required to get a temporary venders sales tax permit for the show. He said that nonfood items were taxable in Ohio and food items weren't. The funny thing being that pumpkins are so used for decorations that for the purposes of taxation they are considered nonfood! We make jack o'lanterns out of gourds and sell them. Then the customer can reuse them year after year. We sell a reasonable number every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 1999 Report Share Posted October 17, 1999 > > Down to the important part of the story. All over the USA people buy > pumpkins and carve faces on them and put them out as a decoration. Now get > this no one eats them they just are decorations! While at the World's Largest Gourd show Mt Gilead Ohio USA first full weekend of October, I was discussing with one of the local growers what was liable to the sales tax as I had been required to get a temporary venders sales tax permit for the show. He said that nonfood items were taxable in Ohio and food items weren't. The funny thing being that pumpkins are so used for decorations that for the purposes of taxation they are considered nonfood! We make jack o'lanterns out of gourds and sell them. Then the customer can reuse them year after year. We sell a reasonable number every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 1999 Report Share Posted October 18, 1999 "COM: Madhava Gosh (das) ACBSP (New Vrindavan - USA)" wrote: > [Text 2705962 from COM] > > > We make jack o'lanterns out of gourds and sell them. Then the customer can > reuse > them year after year. We sell a reasonable number every year. Of course, not to miss the best part of Halloween -- you can dress up in your best sari and tilak and distribute prasadam caramels and peppermints to little kids who come to the door. My kids especially relished this once they became teenagers. My daughter would put on gopi-dots, jewelry and the works. ys hkdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 1999 Report Share Posted October 18, 1999 "COM: Madhava Gosh (das) ACBSP (New Vrindavan - USA)" wrote: > [Text 2705962 from COM] > > > We make jack o'lanterns out of gourds and sell them. Then the customer can > reuse > them year after year. We sell a reasonable number every year. Of course, not to miss the best part of Halloween -- you can dress up in your best sari and tilak and distribute prasadam caramels and peppermints to little kids who come to the door. My kids especially relished this once they became teenagers. My daughter would put on gopi-dots, jewelry and the works. ys hkdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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