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Valentine's Symbols
My favorite Valentine symbol is ... chocolate, dove, rose and teddy bear all tied for first place ;-D!
But what might other Valentine flowers be?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/24/2025

Music Book Review: Handel's Bestiary by Donna Leon, With CD of 12 Arias, as Baroque Era Title #1
The bestiary tradition intrigues me, especially in how it interprets certain animal sentients as incarnating certain important influences, such as the phoenix as rebirth.
It nevertheless somewhat surprises me the sequencing frogs with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/23/2025

Genealogical Hobbies: Sample Searches of Joseph Lockard Martin Jr
The caption to the third in-text image alerts us to the fact that "Lock Martin had an uncredited role in 'The Invaders from Mars' as the mutant who carries Billy Gardner (played by Jimmy Hunt) to the invaders' Intelligence."
Why is it that some ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/23/2025

Fun Halloween Games For Kids Party Ideas
Resource-use efficiency is so important.
One concern at such parties as Halloween-game fun times is leftover, undrunk, uneaten food. Recyclable and trash containers sometimes load lots of liquid weight from liquid-filled cups and water ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/23/2025

How to Get Rid of and Prevent Puffy Eyes
The first subheading, Get Rid of Bags Under Your Eyes, has as its second suggestion for How to Avoid Puffy Eyes "Have a bag of frozen peas or corn on hand in the freezer for the times when you need a quick fix before work. Lay a clean towel over ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/23/2025

Gold Does Not Have to Be Expensive
The point of this article is to find bullion that can be afforded by many. Coins usually are concerned with weight and purity, nothing else is as important in coins.
blackspanielgallery, on 01/18/2025

Beautiful Moroccan Mirrors and Sconces Which Add an Ethnic Flavour to Any Room
It's quite compelling to itinerate from your Moroccan interior design to your wizzleys on Moroccan mirrors and sconces and on tagine pots and vice versa.
Is there pottery on par with tagine pot colors, designs and shapes to inch into courtyard ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2025

Gold Does Not Have to Be Expensive
There can be such jewelry as bracelets, earrings and necklaces whose gold configures green, red, white and yellow.
Has there been, or is there, such coins as green-, red-, white-, yellow-gold coinage?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2025

Septum Piercings on Girls~ Dangers, Healing, Cleansing and Infections
The computer crashed before I completed another component to my observation and question.
Is there an age beyond which septum piercing is not advisable?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2025

How to Dry and Preserve Chilies for Later Use
Dried, preserved chilies act beautifully as Advent-Christmas-New Year decoration and food.
But does its beautiful red not also defer to Saint Valentine Day decorations?
These chilies also might match nicely if made up nicely as spicy drinks ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2025

When Do You Plant Fruit Trees and Where Should You Plant Them?
The historical record can be so amazing and fascinating.
It still is possible to invoke Mount Vernon plantings at the very time of President George Washington (Feb. 22, 1732-Dec. 14, 1799)!
For example, the first Unitedstatesian president ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/18/2025

Gifts for Vegetarians and Vegans for All Occasions
The above-appearing vegan and vegetarian gifts apply not only to Christmas but to other holidays and to personal relationship-affirming dates such as anniversaries and birthdays.
One such "other" holiday is around the corner, less than a month ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2025

Financial Help and Grants for Single Mothers to Pay Bills, Buy Uniforms and More
The above-mentioned financial help covers quite an array of essential needs.
Does transportation figure within that array?
Fare and gas prices for respectively public and private transportation may be quite daunting!
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2025

When Do You Plant Fruit Trees and Where Should You Plant Them?
The Unitedstatesian saying affirms a late-arriving Easter with a late-departing winter.
Easter 2025, at April 20, dates just five days short of its latest delay to April 25.
Hardy, plucky wild strawberries favor end-March to first-week ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2025

The Razorbilled Bird; Alca Torda Torda and Alca Torda Islandica, Facts and Pictures
Razorbills breed perhaps most safely, most successfully in Greenland and Iceland and on the Faroe Islands.
It's a question of less development intruding upon razorbill food webs, habitats and nests.
Might you have seen Greenland-manifesting ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2025