Dee

Thanks for all your posts and concerns. What wonderful ways to remember my friends with planting and smiles and laughter! I can sure tell you some stories that would make you crack up!

Thanks for posting this Lois.

To clean bugs and leaves out of a child's wading pool, bend a wire hanger into a circle and then cover it with an old nylon stocking.

Use matchsticks to keep worms away by placing them in the soil end down. The sulphur repels them. You can use a tablespoon of Dawn dish soap to a gallon of water to kill bugs on plants.

Wrap those birthday gifts in plastic containers or shoe boxes or boxes of any kinds and cover them with a pretty scarf or a nice piece of fabric that can be reused by the recipient

Get a fresh outlook by placing a few groups of potted plants around a tired room. The foliage will instantly brighten and soften your space. For that extra touch of practical romance, add a grow light. It’s good for the plants, but it will also cast beautiful, natural shadows around the room.

Thanks for posting this M! and your right about cost of hair products and all prices on any merchandise

Sour Cream Coffee Cake This is a real tried-and-true American classic that your grandmother may well have served to her friends. Baked in a tube pan, the cake has a layer of walnuts and cinnamon sugar in the middle and a topping of the same spicy-sweet mixture. In the variations, this filling/topping is replaced with a cinnamon-chocolate layer or a ribbon of raspberry jam and walnuts. Or create your own combinations. Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes 2/3 plus 1 3/4 cups sugar 2/3 cup walnuts, finely chopped 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter or margarine (1 stick), softened 3 large eggs 1 container (16 ounces) sour cream 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1. Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease 9- to 10-inch tube pan with removable bottom; dust with flour. In small bowl, mix 2/3 cup sugar, walnuts, and cinnamon. In medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. 2. In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat remaining 1 3/4 cups sugar and butter until blended, scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Increase speed to high; beat until creamy, about 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Reduce speed to low; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. 3. With mixer at low speed, add flour mixture alternating with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating until batter is smooth, occasionally scraping bowl. Beat in vanilla. 4. Spoon one-third of batter into prepared tube pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup nut mixture evenly over batter, then spread half of remaining batter on top. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup more nut mixture; layer with remaining batter, then remaining nut mixture. 5. Bake cake 1 hour 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. With small metal spatula, loosen cake from side of pan and lift cake from pan bottom. Invert cake onto plate; remove bottom of pan. Immediately invert cake onto wire rack to cool completely, with nut mixture on top. This is one of my favorite recipes and I made it with Splenda and it came out just as good as if I used natural sugars.

Money Saving Menu for the week of June 2- 9 Monday: Barbecued Chicken Roasted potatoes on the grill tossed salad fresh fruit in season Save a couple of pieces of chicken for thursdays meal Tuesday: Chili Dogs/on roll low fat macaroni salad carrot and celery sticks popsicles Wednesday: Sloppy Joes from left over chili sauce for hot dogs from tuesdays dinner Low fat potato chips tomato and cuke salad Oatmeal raisin cookies Thursday: Stir fry Chicken chunks simmered with mushrooms, onions, peppers and soy sauce and a tablespoon of margarine on top of stove Serve over brown rice Fresh fruited Jello Friday: Grilled Hamburgers/ veggie burgers with all the trimmings german potato salad corn on the cob- split cobs in half for savings Saturday: Sausage and pepper subs ( Take Italian sausage links and cut them in chunks to stretch the meat, then cut up 3 peppers and 1 large onion and fry them up and put them on mini sub rolls ( that you bought at a discount) Grill some summer squash left over fruited jello Sunday Dinner: Spaghetti with meat sauce small tossed salad garlic toast watermelon slices

When the weather is too darn hot and we don't feel like cooking I get up early and cook up some corkscrew noodles, let them cool. I cut up small chunks of chedder cheese, pepperoni, salami, tomatoes, cukes, onions and toss them in a bowl with the cooled noodles and marinate all the ingredience with Italian Salad Dressing or a wine vinegarette. I serve this up in bowls after it marinates all day along with slices of fresh Italian bread to dip into the marinade. Tall glasses of ice cold sun tea with slices of lemon and a strawberry sundae makes a filling and delicious meal!

Maple Barbecued Chicken 4 skinless chicken thighs 3 tablespoons maple syrup 3 tablespoons chili sauce 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1 tablespoon canola oil 2 teaspoon Dijon mustard Preheat grill. Combine syrup, chili sauce, vinegar and mustard together in a saucepan. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Brush chicken with the oil and season with salt and pepper. Place chicken on grill and cook for 10-15 minutes or until fork tender. Turn occasionally and brush generously with sauce. This is one of our favorite ways to barbeque chicken during the summer. Its a good company pleaser too if your throwing a bash!

Home made Turkey Soup is the fare A salad will do Along with some home made banana bread

Some gardener uses beer on his lawn and found out it makes the lawns lush and green and thick Lowie... I am going to try it and I will let you know how it works...."hic"

Thankyou Lois... I miss everyone...

I am still sick and very weak so I won't stay on long but will post freebies for all you freebie hounds... Another of my best friends passed away Wednesday from cancer. My friend who passed in January and Fran who passed away Wed and I were known as the 3 Muskateers. We were inseparable. I have been blessed knowing Martha and Fran and having them as part of my life. Both died from cancer and at a young age.. They were my best buddies. I just feel very sad over this great loss. I was closer to these ladies, closer to them than to my own sisters. I guess I feel lost right about now and being sick doesn't help.... Just had to vent

Come on Forum Readers... I need your opinions... thanks for the replys from Cat, Momo and Deb

Displaying more topics in a forum #26402 - 05/23/03 08:17 PM Edit Reply Quote When you go into a forum do you find most of the topics to be pinned to the top (like www for example) and have to scroll down to see the new topics below them. Well there is a way to see more topics in the forums. When you logged in and are at the forums. Click on the My Home link. Then choose Display Preferences Scroll down till you find Total Parent Posts to show per page The number in the box is the number of topics that show hen you enter a forum. Increase the number and save you changes. That's all there is to it.

I changed my settings to 25 so I see 25 new messages and some old ones at the same time. Would this help you Lowie?

Glad to have you join the Family Lilith! Enjoy yourself !

Prayer Works! What great news! You will continue to be in my prayers.

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City Chicken (not really chicken at all) 1/2 lb. pork 1/2 lb. veal 1 egg, beaten Bread crumbs (seasoned if you want) 1 c. milk Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cut pork and veal into 1" cubes. Thread on bamboo or wooden skewers, alternating chunks of pork and veal. Dip the skewers in the egg, then the bread crumbs, to coat. Saute until browned. Put skewers in a baking pan, and add milk. Cover in foil, and bake about 1 hour. Does anyone know why this is called "city chicken"? One theory is that, years ago, poultry was expensive, particularly in the years prior to World War II. So cheaper cuts of meat (like pork) were substituted for chicken and "passed off" as chicken. Is this true? Another theory is that is just plain looks like fried chicken. Still another is that it is eaten with your hands, just like you would eat a chicken leg. Any other thoughts?

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will just have to frame that Blue Ribbon for him Granny!!!!!!