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(July 16 - 22, 2011)

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Bronze Post Medal for All Time! 170 Posts
July 22, 2011

This is a great tip for gardeners. Take an old pair of pantyhose and put a bar of soap inside. Tie a knot, keeping the soap in place in the toe. Then tie around water spigot and knot.

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Gold Feedback Medal for All Time! 509 Feedbacks
July 22, 2011

The best tip I ever got came from a man I met in a grocery store. He was standing there by the watermelons trying to balance a broom straw on a watermelon. I just had to stop and watch him to see what in the world he was doing.

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Gold Feedback Medal for All Time! 690 Feedbacks
July 21, 2011

It's been well over 90 degrees F and way too much humidity for some time now. Staying hydrated is very important for all of us.

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July 19, 2011

We do not have a place in our backyard to plant a "regular" garden, but we did have room on our patio deck to do something. I came up with an idea for a small garden using a child's plastic swimming pool.

Patio garden using child's pool and barrel

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July 18, 2011

I had a fan that stop working. I didn't want to throw it away, so I thought of a way to reuse the blades and covers. I used colored tissue paper and wall paper paste for the blades.

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Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts
July 16, 2011

Make a simple box cake into a huge "hamburger" cake by adding a few modifications. I used 9 inch round tins to bake yellow cake and cut them in half to form hamburger buns.

Cake decorated to look like a hamburger

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