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In case you ever wondered what a Halloween Night jack-o'-lantern looks like on Christmas Day, now you know. |
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In case you ever wondered what a Halloween Night jack-o'-lantern looks like on Christmas Day, now you know. |
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In case you ever wondered what that same Halloween Night jack-o'-lantern looks like on Annette's birthday (April 5th), now you know. |
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And here's what that same valiant pumpkin looks like on the following Halloween. The white stuff in his mouth is candle wax that melted over the summer. |
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When I took these photos, the brick wall on which he's resting was merely loose bricks and loose mortar. It was only gravity that held them in place. I have since learned, by practicing on this very wall, that you can buy mortar mix, a trowel and a tuckpointing tool and lay your own brick. There's a technique to mixing the mortar and throwing it into place with the trowel. If the mix is too loose, it just drips off vertical surfaces and smooshes too much when you press a brick into it. If it's too dry, when you throw it with the trowel it tends to bounce rather than adhere. Laying brick is a highly repetitive activity, and I've found it enjoyable trying to learn how to get good at it, to learn the technique of it. And it's satisfying somehow to know you've built something that can last for decades, just as centuries of masons have done. |
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