I got my First QSL Card!  QSL Cards are cards that ham operators exchange (if both have one) when they contact someone new.
My first “contact” (other than Grandpa and Daddy) was from New York. I had some help, Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) made the contact and I just got to talk.
Thank you for buying popcorn if you did. As of when I turned it in, I was at the top of my pack. My leader said that I had camp paid for 🙂 !
How do you like our Pumpkin Imitator? I noticed yesterday 
that it started looking like a pumpkin in color.
Don’t you think it is neat that God made Maple trees so bright orange in the fall? And then being able to tap some of them to make maple syrup?
Thank you God for Maple syrup and all the bright colors that fall brings!
A couple days ago, Mom and the two younger ones went to Nature Nuts. This time it was pumpkins! They carved a pumpkin and got the seeds and all the gook in it. Almost no body else wanted their seeds. Miss Krista was going to dump them out to the animals, but she said that we could have them!
We cleaned the seeds a couple of days ago. We took the stringy stuff out of it for the compost pile. The seeds we washed and put in the refrigerator. The good pumpkin stuff we cooked it. We did lots of stuff with it!
So today we made some pumpkin seed snacks! We boiled the seeds for about 10 minutes. Then we put some of them on a pan and made three different seasoning. Audrey and Andrea used 2 Tablespoons of butter and 2 teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce. Audrey put lots of Mrs Dash lemon pepper on and some garlic powder and a tiny bit of salt. Andrea used Lawry’s Seasoning Salt. I used
2 Tablespoons butter with sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice. I did not measure mine, just added till it tasted good.
Then you put it in a 350 degree oven for about 1/2 hour. They were brown and crunchy. We stirred them occasionally. Be careful that you don’t get burnt! We had between six to eight cups of pumpkin seeds before we ate three cups! 🙂
We also made pumpkin custard and not too pumpkiny pumpkin bread.
Our house smells like pumpkin! If you want your house to smell like pumpkin spice, I would recommend doing this!
Thank you Miss Krista, they were yummy!
Say this 5 times fast!
Seven silly silver ships sold seventy sand sails to someone in Shipsewana.
I rote these all by my self knock knockÂ
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I asked you once now let me in
happy birth day uncle Sam!
Remember yesterday I said that you could order popcorn on line? And that I would post an order form? Here is it.  Be careful not to make mistakes because once you submit it, you can’t change it
If you would like to order popcorn on line, go to OrderPopcorn.com. On the right side of the page there are two banners, one red and one blue. Type in TEPG7JS on the red “enter order key”.  When you press go, you will see that it says “Thank you for supporting Mark M”.
You can order popcorn from OrderPopcorn.com and I get credit for it. You will have to pay shipping though. The popcorn will go straight to your house!
If you are local, you can order it directly from me and save money from shipping! You can call me or add a comment below.
Please order some popcorn so that I can hopefully get to camp this year free! Thank you!
I am selling popcorn for Scouts.  We use the money for lots of different things like camping and badges.
My pack wants me to sell a certain amount for the pack’s needs. After I sell that amount, I get a personal account where I get a small amount for camps.  If I sell a lot of popcorn, I may not have to pay for camp all year! If I sell a LLLLOOOOOOTTTT of popcorn, I get a college fund set up for me.
There are lots of different kinds of popcorn. My favorite kind is the chocolate one. They also have microwave ones in butter, butter light, also kettle corn (microwave), and three kinds of Carmel corn.  There is also pop corn kernels (that you have to order on line).
I like the 5 Way chocolate tin. I also like the Cheese corn. Andrea says she likes the chocolate popcorn and chocolate pretzels and the cheese corn. Audrey likes the chocolate pretzels and all the microwave ones.  Adrian likes the sweet microwave one and all of them. Momma likes the caramel corn with almonds, pecans, and cashews. Daddy wants to try the trail mix.
If you want to order some you can e-mail me, or I hope to post an order form soon. We brought all the different popcorns home and if you want some, we have all of them right now.
Did you know that trans -fat is not in Trail’s End Scout popcorn?
Did you know that the popcorn in many stores are seconds? Trail’s End popcorn isn’t and it is the BEST! Not only does it taste good, it helps Scouts do fun things!
Did you know that Trail’s End Microwave popcorn is only $1 for a pack of yummy microwave popcorn? Except for the Kettle Corn, it costs a little more.
I’m hoping to get to a high enough level to get a gift card to get a camera that I want.  I have been saving up for one for a long time!
We let eight butterflies go yesterday.
Before we let them go, Adrian wanted to hold a butterfly!
Most of them did not want to go. Two flittered off immediately. The others we waited awhile and put them on the Thistle in our front yard. When they flew away we yelled “Bye butterflies!”
One of their proboscises unwound, it was eating nectar! Â 
Here are some pictures, that Momma took.
I didn’t want to let them go, but Momma made me. We let them go so they could fly to Mexico or someplace in California.
The butterflies thought, “what are they doing? Hooray! I’m hungry. Feed me!” or “Goodbye!” Flitter flitter.
After we let them go, they came back sometimes and we were all very happy.
As I told you yesterday, six butterflies emerged. Today another one came!  Ten have hatched, three we released and there is one more to go. When they are all finished, I am going to be sort of happy and sort of sad. Happy because I got to see them, sad because we will have to release them.
This one we rescued. It’s leaf dried up and fell off. Momma taped it up to the aquarium. The next morning the tape did not hold and it fell!  Momma and Daddy tied a string around the chrysalis, put a drop of super glue on the knot and then taped it up. This one was the first one to emerge!
Yesterday, Thomas and Sarah came to watch them emerge. They watched all of them emerge.
When they emerge, they millimeter out of their chrysalises :) Then most of them stretch out their wings. Momma says it looks like they are stretching their backs. Then they dry their wings. When they are coming out, it takes about one minute. It takes a half hour to an hour to dry their wings.
When their wings are dry we move them to the cage we made for them. Before that we play with them!
Andrea did this. She put two butterflies on my arms and then put this one on my face! I was not impressed. Momma thought it was funny!
Grandpa sent us this note:
Thanks for the morning. Ma (Grandma Nana) enjoyed watching the new butterflies, she had never seen that happen before.
We tried to feed to feed them the day they hatched, but they did not eat anything. We gave them watermelon last night. They did not eat it.
Today we were hoping to let them free (sort of) and because of the rain we didn’t. We gave them sugar water and watermelon. And when they land on it and their proboscis unrolls, they drink the sweet juice from inside. This picture is of us feeding it on a Q-tip.
We also tried to play with them, but they kept flying away. We gave them a shower. We spritzed them with water!
I don’t have time to tell you too much right now, but six butterflies came out of their chrysalises today! I will write again tomorrow.
Right now we have them in a home made butterfly cage connected to our ceiling.
Faster and Eating emerged this weekend. When we had to let them go, I really did not 
want to.
Eating, I had to leave to get him to go. We got to play with him a little bit. We had fun with him.  The girls got him in their hair. We tried on Adrian, but he went “No! No! No! No!”.  He climbed on my finger and all over me. We tried to get him onto a flower.
He emerged in the morning when it wasn’t to warm. It means that he could not fly as well. Plus I think he liked me, because he would not fly away when I held him outside.
Faster did not come quite as fast, but he flew away fast! (Maybe Faster was a good name for him!) He came about 10:30.  When he was about to come, Momma 
said she heard a crack and told us to come. We got to see him emerge most of the way!
We let him free around 1:30. The weather was warm!
Whenever we tried to play with him, he would fly to the window.  He was ready to leave. I did not want him to leave yet.  When we took him outside, he just flew around the tree and I think into the woods.
Later that day we saw another butterfly that looked like he had emerged that day.
