| RE: Trouble Changing Sleep Schedule |
Early to bed, early to rise! ;0)
Is It Time to Reset Your Body Clock?
http://www.doctoredlund.com/bcq.html
Circadian rhythm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm
time zone shift
(add 3-4 hrs to your 3am schedule)
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| RE: Finding Combinations for Old Locks |
If all else fails, make chimes out of them! ;0)
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| RE: Homemade Hummingbird Feeders |
Build your own hummingbird feeders with everyday materials!
http://fohn.net/hummingbird-pictures/hummingbird-feeders.html
http://www.instructables.com/id/Water_Bottle_Hummingbird_Feeder/
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| RE: Recipes for WW2 Sweets |
Two-Egg Cake
Mix together 1/2 cup soft shortening and 1 cup sugar
Beat in thoroughly, one at a time 2 eggs
Sift together 1 3/4 cups sifted All America Enriched Flour, 2 tsp. double-action baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt
Stir into shortening-sugar mixture alternately with 2/3 cup milk and 1 tsp. vanilla
Pour into 2 greased and floured 8" round layer pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes in moderate oven (350°). When cake is cool, spread Milk Chocolate Icing (recipe below) between layers and over top and sides.
For Spice Variation
Sift 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. nutmeg, 1/4 tsp. cloves with dry ingredients.
Milk Chocolate Icing
Heat together over hot water until shortening melts 4 tbsp. shortening and 6 tbsp. cocoa
Pour 5 tbsp. scalding hot milk (evaporated or fresh whole)
over 2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
1/4 tsp. salt Stir to dissolve completely.
Stir in . 1 tsp. vanilla and
hot cocoa mixture
(Complete mixture will be very thin.) While hot, beat until thick enough to spread and smooth and glossy.
Amount: Icing for two 8-inch layers.
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| RE: Rotten Egg Smell in House |
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Yes, they have been running a commercial around here saying that if you smell something that smells like rotten eggs to call the gas company immediately. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Tutti Frutti Recipe |
Use a two gallon stone crock. Peaches, peeled plums, strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, and cherries may be used as they come into season. Start this March by placing one cup of brandy or rum (I prefer rum) in the crock, with one cup prepared fruit. Thereafter, add one cup sugar with every cup of fruit.
Stir every day. In the fall, cover a heavy pan lid wrapped in plastic and place it in the crock, on top of the fruit to weigh down the fruit under the liquid. Seal the crock with more plastic wrap and leave it until December. If desired, a whole banana may be added before sealing. I feel this mellows the slightly alcoholic intriguing flavor the fermented dessert acquires.
Serve Tutti Frutti over ice cream. When fruit is gone, the sauce may be used to baste ham, or as a pancake syrup.
Directions
You can eat the fruit out of the crock and just keep adding more, if you wish to.
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| RE: Growing Plants in Gravelly Soil |
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I've never grown potatoes but thought this method was interesting and wanted to try it. We bought little red potato seed at Lowe's and prepped the buckets. After adding about 4" soil, I added 2 little potatoes to each bucket. Now I think I should have stuck with 1 in each bucket, we will see how it goes. I may end up laying them on their sides and continuing layering the straw on as the green emerges. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Growing Plants in Gravelly Soil |
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Two of my 6 tomato plants have flowers already and the little husky cherry has fruit. To prep the bucket, I made holes along the lower side and bottom for drainage, added a little of my own "compost" material that's mainly leaves and pebbles I've raked up, topped with about 6-8 inches of Miracle Grow (hubby purchased before we found out about soil/compost from county extension), put in the plant and sat on the southside of our home. So far they're doing great! ... View related article. |
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| RE: Growing Plants in Gravelly Soil |
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I too live in AR where there's nothing but ROCKS! After 4 years of unsuccessfully getting something to grow in the earth here, I'm using 5 gallon buckets and homemade "kinda" raised beds to grow a few things. Our county extension sells compost by the truckload ($6 per load) and the buckets are obtained from a fast food chain that otherwise tosses the buckets in the landfills. I use logs, wood and big stones to enclose my beds (all free) and shop around town for the best deals on plants (including clearance and reduced). My limitations to what I can grow have been greatly reduced by using these things. Here's a pic of the beans I have now. I will follow this post with a pic of my potatoes and tomatoes in buckets. Good luck! ... View related article. |
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| RE: Planting a Garden in Old Tires |
Here's a good article for you to read. I'm trying it myself this year. Can't beat the cost of 'em!
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/sanders98.html
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The EPA says, "There is no current evidence showing that products containing recycled rubber from scrap tires substantially increases the threat to human health and the environment as compared to the threats associated with conventional products." (http://www.epa.gov/garbage/tires/faq.htm#ques14), but they're talking about ground tires in road beds and their effect on groundwater (though they have a lovely picture of a squash plant growing in a tire right close to this statement.) ... View related article. |
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