SOTD by u/PhilosphicalZombie

2024-06-22 Spooky Season

• Prep: Coffee, Face wash soap/warm water
• Brush: Stirling Soap Company - 24mm Synthetic Shave Brush
• Razor: Parker 11R - (3 Piece, horn handle)
• Blade: Bolzano Superinox, DE
• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Hallows
• Post Shave: Barrister & Mann – Hallows

Today's Theme: Spooky Season - went with Barrister and Mann's Halloween seasonal Hallows! As you can see I have two different years. I like the cartoon graphic a bit better. Just more fun.

By the way Hallow means to consecrate, make holy, or set aside or devote for holy purposes and usages such as a spot for burial. In reference to Halloween the word hallows is short for another term for the night, "all hallow's eve." which in turn is another term for All Saints Day. In pagan practices this time of year was when the natural and supernatural were in closest contact and the time was known as Samhain pronounced SOW-in (Irish) although nearby places had other names. The Jack-O-Lanterns with think of as carved pumpkins originally were carved turnips (to bad, I did not have one of those on hand).

I picked the Parker 11R with it's carved horn handle because of all my razors it looks the most like bone.

Today's Challenge: finding no pumpkin in the house, not even in a can I went with another fall staple the apple.

• Here is my carved apple - Malum in commutari cucurbita hoc spooky diem

"The moon is full,

The trees are bare,

Dead leaves glide through The cool, dry air.

The night is silent as a grave,

Or some deep, dark, unfathomed cave

Beneath the stars’ cold stare.

The silence breaks With hollow moans

And beastly snarls And clacking bones:

The God-forsaken, restless dead

Awaken from their earthen bed

Beneath cold, carven stones."

• Adam J. Sedia, All Hallows Eve - 2021

Scents for the day:

Barrister and Mann's Hallows - vetiver, oakmoss, black pepper, cocoa, labdanum, and cedar

Take care and have a good one.

[**2024-06-22 Spooky Season**](https://imgur.com/qZxQ9Ch)

* **Prep:** Coffee, Face wash soap/warm water
* **Brush:** Stirling Soap Company - [24mm Synthetic Shave Brush](https://imgur.com/gURodLg)
* **Razor:** Parker [11R](https://i.imgur.com/3L123Sq.jpg) - (3 Piece, horn handle)
* **Blade:** Bolzano Superinox, DE
* **Lather:** Barrister and Mann - [Hallows](https://i.imgur.com/voAP1YS.jpg)
* **Post Shave:** Barrister & Mann – [Hallows](https://imgur.com/SkYkzXr)

**Today's Theme: Spooky Season** - went with Barrister and Mann's Halloween seasonal Hallows! As you can see I have two different years. I like the cartoon graphic a bit better. Just more fun.

By the way Hallow means to consecrate, make holy, or set aside or devote for holy purposes and usages such as a spot for burial. In reference to Halloween the word hallows is short for another term for the night, "all hallow's eve." which in turn is another term for All Saints Day. In pagan practices this time of year was when the natural and supernatural were in closest contact and the time was known as Samhain pronounced [SOW-in](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key) (Irish) although nearby places had other names. The Jack-O-Lanterns with think of as carved pumpkins originally were carved turnips (to bad, I did not have one of those on hand).

I picked the Parker 11R with it's carved horn handle because of all my razors it looks the most like bone.

**Today's Challenge:** finding no pumpkin in the house, not even in a can I went with another fall staple the apple.

* Here is my carved apple - [Malum in commutari cucurbita hoc spooky diem](https://imgur.com/are-you-friend-b020n2x)

*"The moon is full,*

*The trees are bare,*

*Dead leaves glide through The cool, dry air.*

*The night is silent as a grave,*

*Or some deep, dark, unfathomed cave*

*Beneath the stars’ cold stare.*

*The silence breaks With hollow moans*

*And beastly snarls And clacking bones:*

*The God-forsaken, restless dead*

*Awaken from their earthen bed*

*Beneath cold, carven stones."*

* Adam J. Sedia, All Hallows Eve - 2021

**Scents for the day:**

Barrister and Mann's Hallows - vetiver, oakmoss, black pepper, cocoa, labdanum, and cedar

**Take care and have a good one.**