department, and a 15% increase in total sales. That’s all it took, and I was then recommended, and accepted into a management training program through the store. Within one year I was a Senior Assistant manager, and again found myself working my tail to the bone, and bearing the brunt of responsibility, so I gave it all up for a warehouse position, the kind of work I really felt good about doing. It was hard work, good exercise, and left me plenty of time to think, which was always my favorite past time.

While working at the warehouse, I met my wife to be, Carmella and soon began a different course in life. She walked me through the ropes of working for yourself, we opened our own business, and began doing festivals, and began growing gourds. Eventually, after 10 years in the warehouse, I lost my job there, but our business was just beginning to boom, then another change in life. I suffered a back injury, and after having an MRI, discovered I have a Herniated disk, a bulging disk, and degenerative disk disease as a result of working warehouses all my life. We were still into gourds, but we had to quit our business. Then, Gourds became the focus of my intentions.

With gourds as my Priority, I began once again, following my nature, and seeking ways to make things easier, faster, more efficient, and along the way began to discover that idea’s and research of something easier also created a platform where new effects could be achieved. With that in mind is a whole new host of experiments to try, and who knows where it will end...

In the meantime, here for your review are a series of methods which we have tried, and experimented with, yielding some interesting results.