October Eve

 

At least that's what I wanted to do, but a cold has set me back a few days. And trying to find a way to make holes in the pumpkin buckets. Along the ones I got more than a month ago, I have since gotten two more at Goodwill, including a dark blue one. I saw and wanted to get a white pumpkin there, but there was no tag so they wouldn't sell it. So I settled for getting another orange one. And I ordered the those pictured below from Amazon. They turned out to be smaller than the other ones, but I didn't mind that. I just wanted the different colors. Since I have 10 light stakes, I wanted to get that many buckets.

I experimented with cutting holes in the buckets with an exacto, but was less than satisfied. I got two done that way, but want to find another way to get the holes done. More on this later.

At first it seemed hard to find the round buckets. It seems those with wide rims are becoming more popular (below):

I am hoping to get it started tomorrow since it is the first.

Book Discussion: More Reading Progress

When I made this post in June, I was waiting to complete both Alphabet Soup challenges. Both have since been completed, along with two more, including one I finished just yesterday.

Here is what I have completed since then:

Blydyn 7/25

Alphabet Soup  7/30

Reading With Wrigs 7/30

Alphabet Soup Authors 8/8

Picture Prompt Bingo 9/26

Yes, two finished on the same day. Thank goodness for crossovers. A title beginning with U was the last one I needed for Alphabet Soup, and the book I found for this also fit "Set in a Nordic country" in the Wrigs challenge. Since the Picture Prompt Bingo allows readers to interpret images as they wish, I close to include this book, a locked-room mystery, for the old key picture. 

In June, I had not yet reached 100 books, but now I am up to 133 as of today.

Fall Trivia Video

This is the trivia topic for my class today. I based my questions off this video.

13 Fall Cartoons

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. I am once again using the header graphic I made for these posts.

Fall has begun in the Northern Hemisphere. Here are some cartoons for the season, both old and new favorites.

 

Pumpkin Spice on the Way

Today on Paula's blog, I saw this post. Yes, time for pumpkin spice as well. I don't indulge in that one a lot, though. One year, I came across  the following pumpkin spice treats. I somehow got  tempted to try each one:

That was the only time I remember eating these. Maybe they never turned in the years that followed, but if but they did, I either didn't see them or wasn't tempted by them again. 

I've always been more into candy corn. Haven't gotten any this year yet, but I expect to have at least one bag this year.

25 Years Later

 

25 years. Seems hard to imagine. I'll always remember what I was doing on the fateful morning, and I'm sure others will too. 

13 Things About Sodas

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. 

Last Friday, for my trivia class at work, I chose soda as the topic. I got my questions from two You Tube videos. Here are few things I learned (see below to see the videos):

1. Dr Pepper was founded in 1885, predating Coca-Cola by a year. 
2. Schweppes, founded in 1783, is responsible for creating carbonation used in sodas. 
3. Cream in cream soda refers to cream of tartar.
4. Diet Rite was the first diet soda.
5. 7Up predated Sprite.
6. Faygo was created by two bakers, using cake-frosting recipes.
7. Sunkist is not a soda company, but a California citrus growers' co-op.
8. Diet Coke was released in 1982.
9. Mr. Pibb was originally called Peppo, until Dr Pepper filed a lawsuit.
10. Tab's name referred to "Keeping tabs on your calorie intake."
11. The name Mountain Dew is slang for moonshine.
12. Root beer originally contained sassafras, which was banned by the FDA in 1960. Since then, artificial sassafras has been used in root beer.
13. Birch beer, made from a tree bark, is mostly found in the Northeastern US.

These were the videos from which I derived my questions for the class:

 

I had jotted down the names of the videos, but when I searched for them on Youtube at work, I mistakenly played another video that had the exact same title as the first one above, from a different Youtube channel. I did not realize this until the video was nearly over and I got ready to play the second one shown above. The one I showed by mistake is here. The info in this video about Schweppes is what made me realize my mistake, as did the lack of info on RC Cola and Diet Rite in this video. I still learned a lot of info.