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• Be aware, “There comes a time when it cannot be put off any longer. The radio warns of a killing frost coming in the night, and you must say good-bye to the garden. You dread it, as you dread saying good-bye to any good friend; but the garden waits with its last gifts, and you must go with a bushel basket or big buckets to receive them.” Quote from Rachel Peden whose column, “The Hoosier Farm Wife Says…” was a popular feature in the Indianapolis Star for many years. • Pumpkins are thought to originate from Central America. They are now grown on every continent except Antarctica. • If you collect your pumpkins in a basket… you better be growing the small “pie” pumpkins or a “mini” variety. Most pumpkins are big and heavy and used as fall or Halloween decorations
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Caroline’s Interior Consignments FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 26, 2009
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Caution dominates the Sheep’s monetary aspect this week. Rams and Ewes might want to shear their big spending plans until a more favorable financial picture begins to emerge by week’s end. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Thrift counts both at home and at work. So you might want to rethink major purchases or investments. Also, be wary of a so-called revelation about a previous decision. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Both household budgets and workplace accounts might benefit from some judicious trimming of unnecessary expenses. A partnership could lead to an unexpected challenge. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A previously overlooked opportunity could re-emerge with a new travel-related matter. Check this out carefully to see if it’s what you really want before you decide one way or another. LEO (July 23 to August 22) This could be the start of a new career-changing phase, so start marking down your many accomplishments for those who need to know how much you have to offer. Good luck. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) It’s not too early for the sometimes procrastinating Virgo to start making those long-distance travel plans. The sooner you decide where to go, when to go and how to go, the better. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Financial matters once again figure in any major action you might take regarding career, travel or other endeavors. You’ll want a ready reserve to help you back up those moves. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Trying to resolve a problem in a personal relationship could be more difficult than you’d expected. Look into the possibility that someone might be interfering for his or her own reasons. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A project you once rejected might be more attractive because of changes that you feel you can now work with. The weekend is especially favorable to family matters. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) This is a good week for the gregarious Goat to enjoy being with people you care for. You might even want to show off those creative kitchen skills you’re so adept at. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A colleague might think your attitude is patronizing or even outright insulting. True. That might be his or her problem. But you might want to take some reassuring steps anyway. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) It’s a good time to jettison those old concepts about a family matter you might have been holding on to. This will help make room for a new and more enlightened way of dealing with it. BORN THIS WEEK: You like to analyze a puzzling situation before you try to resolve it. This makes you excel at getting things done the right way. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Behaving responsibly with your credit is no guarantee that the credit-card companies won’t make unwarranted changes to your terms. Let’s say you’re a responsible credit user who is never late making credit-card payments, pays more than the minimum each month and keeps your balances below 30 percent of available credit. You have high credit scores, and you’re proud of that fact. You believe that as long as you continue to handle credit in a responsible manner, your scores will stay high, allowing you to get excellent interest rates when you apply for loans. It’s not necessarily so. Your scores can drop anyway. Take this example: You have a card with a $10,000 available credit limit. You keep your balances down around $3,000 -- approximately 30 percent. Without any good reason (except that it just wants to), your credit-card company drops your available credit, perhaps down to $5,000. Suddenly your credit usage appears to be at 60 percent. Your credit scores will fall based on using too much of the available credit, without your having done a single thing wrong. An even worse case is when the card companies lower your available credit every month down to the level of your new balance: Make a payment, and the result is your new credit availability, and you’re using 100 percent of it. It appears that you’ve maxed out your card. If this happens to you, you’re not alone. Credit-card companies have cut available credit to many. Now, per the new laws, they will have to warn you in advance, but it likely won’t be in time for you to pay down balances so that your percentage of credit used stays low. One-third of your credit score depends on how well you stay within the limits of your available credit. Keep a sharp eye out for information leaflets from your credit-card companies. You might be told that your new minimum payment will be an increased percentage of the existing balance, or that your interest rate is rising, your due date is changing or your available credit is being slashed. Then look at your credit-card statements each and every month to see if those changes have taken effect. As always when dealing with credit-card companies: beware. David Uffington regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail.com. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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PUMPKINS & POTATOES (continued) • Pumpkins are in the Cucurbita plant family as are squash. The Greek work for pumpkin, “pepon” means large melon. Cucumbers are in this family as well.
• People in North America love pumpkin pie. The highest consumption is during the U.S. and Canadian Thanksgiving holidays. The U.S. holiday is the fourth Thursday in November but the Canadian holiday is the second Monday in October. • The largest pumpkin pie ever baked weighed 2,020 pounds (916 kg). The feat, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, was accomplished on October 8, 2005 by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers of New Bremen, Ohio. • How do you mend a broken Jack-O-Lantern? With a pumpkin patch! • Pumpkins and potatoes are excellent sources of fiber. Both are also rich in potassium. Pumpkins are rich in Vitamin A and potatoes are rich in Vitamin C. • Potatoes are thought to originate from the Andes of South America. Some really cool looking potatoes of different shapes, sizes and colors still grow there today – many at elevations around 13,000 feet.
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Santa Rosa, CA is now a city park. • Think about this…“It’s easy to halve the potato where there’s love.” Irish Proverb • The potato Idaho is famous for is a little Do you ever wonder about the origin of different from the original Burbank. It is a these sayings? Can you see the romanRusset Burbank that has a “netted gem” tic couple buttering their halved potato in exterior…a slightly rough skin. the candlelight?! • 2008 was designated the “International • Are you an average American? If so, you Year of the Potato” by the United Naprobably eat around 126 pounds (57 kg) tions. Since the 1990s production in Asia, of potatoes each year. Approximately Africa, and Latin America has greatly inone-third of U.S. potatoes are grown in creased. This is great considering the Idaho. Canadians like potatoes too… huge populations in these areas. Potathe rate of consumption is even higher toes are improving the food supply. at 157 pounds (71 kg) per person. This • China is now the number one producer of is about the same as the combined total potatoes but with a smaller yield per acre for all other fresh vegetables consumed (hectare) than North America. in Canada. • Have you ever been asked if you would • Idaho® Potatoes and the “Grown in Idalike gravy with your fries? Yep, you may ho®” seal are federally registered certifibe asked that in Canada and some placcation marks for the Idaho Potato Comes in the U.S. as well. If the dish includes mission. cheese curds, it is routine. This dish orig• Luther Burbank, born in Massachusetts inated in Quebec in the 1950s. in 1849, is known for the development of • “Potatoes served at breakfast, At dinner the Burbank potato. He sold the rights to served again; Potatoes served at suphis potato for $150 and moved to Califorper, Forever and Amen!” …Pennsylvania nia where he bought a 15 acre (6 hectPrayer. ares) farm on Gold Ridge in Sebastopol in 1885. Today, his farm is listed on the • Now is the time to start using the vegetables frozen or canned for winter and National Historic Register and is open dream of pumpkin pie and mashed poyear round for tours. His home in nearby tatoes!
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• On Oct. 26, 1825, the 425-mile Erie Canal opens, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River. The work was largely done by Irish diggers, who had to rely on primitive tools. They were paid $10 a month, and barrels of whiskey were placed along the canal route as encouragement. • On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. On the pedestal was inscribed “The New Colossus,” a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus that begins “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” • On Oct. 31, 1912, “The Musketeers of Pig Alley,” directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts. The movie, which followed the career of a gangster nicknamed the Snapper Kid, initiated a long Hollywood tradition of “gangster movies.” • On Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of “War of the Worlds” -- a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. Perhaps as many as a million radio listeners believed that a real Martian invasion was under way. • On Oct. 29, 1948, killer smog continues to hover over Donora, Pa. During a five-day period, the smog killed about 20 people and made thousands more seriously ill. Airborne pollutants emitted from a zinc smelting plant and steel mills appeared to have been trapped by fog close to the ground, where they were inhaled by local residents. • On Oct. 27, 1954, “Disneyland,” Walt Disney’s first television series, premieres on ABC. The one-hour show, introduced by Tinkerbell, presented a rotating selection of cartoons, dramas, movies and other entertainment. It ran for 34 years under various names. • On Nov. 1, 1969, “Suspicious Minds,” by Elvis Presley, hits No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The song was Presley’s first chart-topper in seven years and would be his last, as he failed to hit the Top 10 again before his death in 1977. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• It was American columnist Franklin Pierce Adams who made the following sage observation: “Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.” • If you’re like the average human, your heart will beat 100,000 times today. • Before Humphrey Bogart became a famed star of the silver screen, he was famous for another reason. Bogart’s mother painted a portrait of little Humphrey as a baby, and that portrait was used as a trademark for Mellin’s babyfood company. • John Quincy Adams was the first U.S. president to be photographed. • If you’re a stargazer -- or a night owl -you might already be aware of the fact that you can see about five times as many shooting stars after midnight as you can see before. • Lexicographers claim that “queue” is the only word in the English language whose pronunciation does not change when the last four letters are removed. • Only about 5 percent of the salt produced every year winds up on the dinner table to be used as a seasoning. And you might be surprised to learn the diverse purposes for which the other 95 percent is used: packing meat and feeding livestock, of course, but also building roads, tanning leather and manufacturing such items as soap, ash, detergents and glass. • Here’s a fun experiment: Pour a glass of champagne, then drop in a raisin. The carbonation in the drink will cause the raisin to bounce up and down continuously until the wine goes flat. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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