The wrapping process...was not fun. The pine resin did not melt well. Added in some hot paraffin to stabilize the gauze. Kind of looks like some weird art at this point. Also with the oils and wax my semi singed fingers are very soft.

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Time to stuff the dearly departed. Mix of road salt, baking soda, sawdust, some cedar oil, and pine resin. Then we plug the hole.

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Organs are now collected to prepare for their canopic jars.

Now is time to give Ferb I a ritual washing.

Usually some special blend of ointments would have been used, however the best I could do was a lemon shampoo mixed with olive oil.

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Then came time to remove the organs on Ferb.

Historically canopic jars are for the liver, lungs, stomach and intestines. For pumpkins this means each jar gets seeds and orange goo.

Note my professional Y-Did-You-Do-It-that-Way incision.

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We need some stats for science like reasons. Here are their starting weights when they arrived to the Gourd Mourning Parlor.

Commoner Phineas on the left is bigger but still lighter than King Ferb.

Prob the difference in diets between social classes.
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Time to start.

OH NOES, Ordinary Phineas and King Ferb has passed away roughly about the the same time!

Not sure if they were picked the same day in the pumpkin patch but technically the moment they were taken off their vines was the time of death.
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Gathering the materials. Stuff I am reading says that saw dust and pine resin will be needed.

But also Natron which is Hella expensive to cover a pie pumpkin, so we are gonna use baking soda and road salt instead.

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Here will be our Gourd Mortuary prep table, one that has seen death of untold number of plants already, since I am not a very good gardener.
Lookie-It has a drain! This will be needed to separate the moisture from the pumpkins.
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