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tampered2009-10-28 03:26 pm
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This Is Halloween {Open ; Ongoing}
When; October 28th, 3 o'clock through evening
Rating; Let's keep it to PG, people
Characters; Sakura {![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bealright} & Alice {othersideofwhat}, and you! (log is open, ongoing, and for mingling~)
Summary; You are cordially invited to a pumpkin carving party!
Log;
It had been a great deal of work preparing everything: the pumpkin pie, the apple cake, the tea, the pumpkins themselves. Of course, Sakura had done most of the work, really. And it was her idea, more or less. In fact, she'd been the one to grow the pumpkins and find the picture of the pumpkin boat in the first place.
Perhaps Alice should think of herself as merely being helpful. Well, it was good to be of use, of course.
The pumpkins were astonishing! They were perfectly immense. They must have been rolled to where they now stood in Xanadu, gleaming and bright in the sun. The smaller ones would make splendid jack-o-lanterns--and perhaps more pies, of course. And the larger ones would be made into boats. A pumpkin could only be one or the other. A jack-o-lantern boat would likely leak.
It was still difficult to believe that it was possible to make a boat from a pumpkin. It seemed perfect nonsense at first. Boats were made of wood and shaped like boats. But, then again, there was something of it that made sense. After all, the hollow caps of acorns floated very well, and so did blades of grass, and flowers and leaves. So why shouldn't a pumpkin, once made into a boat, serve as well as a boat?
That was perhaps the source of Alice's greatest curiosity: how did one make a boat from a pumpkin? Or, rather, what was it like to use a pumpkin for a boat? Perhaps it was a little like something from a fairy tale or a nursery rhyme, but the thought of sitting in a pumpkin, floating down a stream--well, it was better than swimming in a sea made from her own tears, certainly.
And, of course, once the pumpkin boats were launched, Alice would make certain not to look nearly so cross as the man in the picture of the pumpkin boat did.
There were only a very few things left to do--the tea was made, the cakes and pies were set on a table, the pumpkins were ready and so were the knives and spoons for them. So now it was only time to stand and wait, as impossible as that was, and play at being a good hostess until the first people arrived...
[ooc: Really informal mingle and play post here~ Chat with each other, nom some pie, carve a pumpkin! In the later afternoon, once the biggest pumpkins have been hollowed out, there will be pumpkin boating! And, after dark, a grand lighting of the jack-o-lanterns :3 Lots of good Halloween fun ♥]
Rating; Let's keep it to PG, people
Characters; Sakura {
bealright} & Alice {othersideofwhat}, and you! (log is open, ongoing, and for mingling~)Summary; You are cordially invited to a pumpkin carving party!
Log;
It had been a great deal of work preparing everything: the pumpkin pie, the apple cake, the tea, the pumpkins themselves. Of course, Sakura had done most of the work, really. And it was her idea, more or less. In fact, she'd been the one to grow the pumpkins and find the picture of the pumpkin boat in the first place.
Perhaps Alice should think of herself as merely being helpful. Well, it was good to be of use, of course.
The pumpkins were astonishing! They were perfectly immense. They must have been rolled to where they now stood in Xanadu, gleaming and bright in the sun. The smaller ones would make splendid jack-o-lanterns--and perhaps more pies, of course. And the larger ones would be made into boats. A pumpkin could only be one or the other. A jack-o-lantern boat would likely leak.
It was still difficult to believe that it was possible to make a boat from a pumpkin. It seemed perfect nonsense at first. Boats were made of wood and shaped like boats. But, then again, there was something of it that made sense. After all, the hollow caps of acorns floated very well, and so did blades of grass, and flowers and leaves. So why shouldn't a pumpkin, once made into a boat, serve as well as a boat?
That was perhaps the source of Alice's greatest curiosity: how did one make a boat from a pumpkin? Or, rather, what was it like to use a pumpkin for a boat? Perhaps it was a little like something from a fairy tale or a nursery rhyme, but the thought of sitting in a pumpkin, floating down a stream--well, it was better than swimming in a sea made from her own tears, certainly.
And, of course, once the pumpkin boats were launched, Alice would make certain not to look nearly so cross as the man in the picture of the pumpkin boat did.
There were only a very few things left to do--the tea was made, the cakes and pies were set on a table, the pumpkins were ready and so were the knives and spoons for them. So now it was only time to stand and wait, as impossible as that was, and play at being a good hostess until the first people arrived...
[ooc: Really informal mingle and play post here~ Chat with each other, nom some pie, carve a pumpkin! In the later afternoon, once the biggest pumpkins have been hollowed out, there will be pumpkin boating! And, after dark, a grand lighting of the jack-o-lanterns :3 Lots of good Halloween fun ♥]