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Garden Medley No-Lettuce Salad

Cranberries are high in antioxidants, and very healthy.

frankbeswick, on 05/11/2015

Garden Medley No-Lettuce Salad

They do add such nice touch, ton't they? We use chopped walnuts for salad toppings a lot, too. In addition to being good, they add a little bit of proyien

CruiseReady, on 05/10/2015

Garden Medley No-Lettuce Salad

Sounds like the kind of salad my daughter would love - she always puts dried cranberries in her salad!

jptanabe, on 05/10/2015

How to Clean Glass Doors on Your Wood-Burning Stove

I am a procrastinator when it comes to cleaning my stove, but found the wet newspaper & ashes do the trick even when it is burned onto the glass. I haven't tried using a newspaper on its own. I'll try it next winter when the stove is back in ...

CountrySunshine, on 05/10/2015

Portrait of a Freed Black Slave - Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

The crews of the slave slave ships were little better than slaves themselves, wage slaves, often the most inadequate seamen who could not get jobs other than on these miserable under-crewed ships. There would be a sea captain and a bullying a ...

frankbeswick, on 05/10/2015

2017 Seasonal Hurricane Predictions and Names

I remember that season well. We loved through it, too. We didn't unboard our windows for weeks, because the storms just kept coming, It was like living in a cave!

CruiseReady, on 05/10/2015

How to Clean Glass Doors on Your Wood-Burning Stove

This is a unique idea. I use dry newspaper and give the glass a wipe when I'm getting the fire ready to burn. When it gets really dirty I use stovetop glass cleaner, which works well. Now I have another option.

dustytoes, on 05/10/2015

2017 Seasonal Hurricane Predictions and Names

I lived in central Florida for 27 years. My last year there was 2004, when we suffered through Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne which all arrived within about 6 weeks of each other. We had the most damage from Charley where I lived. I ...

dustytoes, on 05/10/2015

Affordable Italy: 6 Tips for Traveling on a Budget

While I love art, I think I do go to Italy for the food. I would love to spend a few months each year there.

Nelda_Hoxie, on 05/10/2015

Unique Retirement Party Invitations

I didn't know about Zazzle until I read about it here. Now I also design things there. It's a tremendous about of fun.

Nelda_Hoxie, on 05/10/2015

Caring for Multiple Cats

Walker, Florida Feline just KNOWS it's his home, and we are only here to maintain it , and give him everything he wants. I was quite interested in learning about the pill pockets - hadn't heard of those before, and they are a brilliant idea!

CruiseReady, on 05/10/2015

Images and Copyright

Thank you for the kind words! I mostly use public domain images, but had affiliate accounts with art.com and allposters.com. Now that they have changed to cj I will have to replace those images.

classicalgeek, on 05/10/2015

Portrait of a Freed Black Slave - Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

That is such an interesting comment Frank. Many thanks for this.

KathleenDuffy, on 05/10/2015

Affordable Italy: 6 Tips for Traveling on a Budget

I enjoyed this. :) I tried Yapta and it's a very good resource. I also like your tips about buying travel passes in various cities. I usually buy only a a bus tour pass when I visit a city, but I've also bought a city pass in Barcelona and it ...

Mira, on 05/10/2015

Images and Copyright

A very useful article. Apart from photos that I have taken myself, I use fotolia, for whose images I pay a small fee. You need to have an account with fotolia. I purchase credits from them. I have never used creative commons.

frankbeswick, on 05/10/2015