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A Visit to Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Earlier this year I read a library book which was a biography of Andrew Jackson and I was impressed by two facts. 1. He was the only president in the history of this country that ever paid off the national debt during his two terms in office. 2.... ( added 18 days 3 hours ago.)

How To Create Fused Stained Glass Jewelry Creating fused stained glass jewelry is really not hard at all. One need not have any artistic talent. One only needs a kiln or access to one. Here are some pieces I recently made to sell to raise money for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.... ( added 46 days 14 hours ago.)

Another Great Recipe Using Herbs From My Mediterannean Herb Garden We don't eat a lot of meat around our home any more. Old age, being smarter, less family to cook for, no longer living on the dairy farms where meat was required at all 3 daily meals and a general change of eating habits is the reason why, at... ( added 51 days 2 hours ago.)

A Great Recipe For Peppers and Spinach As the summer winds down and we find more and more fruits and vegetables coming into season we try to find different ways to use them while they are fresh, whether they are coming from your organic garden or from the local farmer's markets or just... ( added 51 days 2 hours ago.)

An Artists Different Point of View I rarely paint the same thing twice as my mind is too eclectic or weird as some members of my family labels. However, a bright, blue sky day brought me out into my gardens early today when it was chilly and eventually my old friendly, faded... ( added 168 days 16 hours ago.)

What Memorial Day Means to Me When I was a child growing up in Brooklyn , New York , Memorial Day wasn't called Memorial Day. It was called Decoration Day and the Veteran's organizations such as the VFW or Veterans of Foreign Wars stood on street corners taking donations... ( added 172 days 10 hours ago.)

Every Painting Has a Story I have finally been able to find two reliable 18 and 20 year old helpers who know how to give a good day's work for a good day's pay and at age 74 my gardens are back to looking like they should! It is rough getting old and cricketty, when... ( added 172 days 11 hours ago.)

Helping Your Garden Birds Through the Winter In many parts of our nation winter has all ready set in. In our part of the country in zone 6 I think it finally has arrived on the very calendar day marked for winter arrival. In our part of Kentucky I can never figure out whether we live in the... ( added 317 days 3 hours ago.)

A Brief History of Cedar Oil as I Remember It When I lived in Northern New York I lived in the St. Lawrence County region and I lived there for a long time, first as the wife of a dairy farmer and then a widow of one and eventually, after moving away for eight years (though I visited the area... ( added 317 days 3 hours ago.)

How to Grow Holly Tis the season to be jolly and it tis the season I seem to notice holly even though it is around me all year long. I think the reason I do not notice it is because it usually is part of many gardeners or home owners landscape that has so many... ( added 317 days 3 hours ago.)

Easy Potato and Broccoli Soup Winter has set in and we wake up to a cold, overcast, pewter gray sky. The Blue Jays dine with us this morning and it is noted that no matter how many are up in the pergola they only come down one at a time to eat. I put out the ginger chips that... ( added 317 days 3 hours ago.)

Arlenes Roasted Herb Potatoes When we had the Bed and Breakfast and Campgrounds in Tennessee I often found myself cooking dinner for as few as 3 guests, but as many as 25 guests. To make my life very simple my menu included two choices"Take it or Leave it!" It simply consisted... ( added 325 days 4 hours ago.)

Christmas Gifts from Your Garden Christmas the time for giving and many of us are finding that the Christmas of 2008 is going to be a tight one. Basically, though I like Christmas and all the things that go with it, I really do not like the commercialism that has developed... ( added 325 days 4 hours ago.)

A Garden May Help Fight the Recession For those of us less fortunate to have the fruits of our labors from a large vegetable garden this year we are now starting to feel the pinch of high prices in our local food markets. As a kid I remember Eleanor Roosevelt starting the Victory... ( added 325 days 4 hours ago.)

Birdhouses and Bird Baths Attract Birds to Your Garden We all know the benefits of birds in our gardens and how they eat the bad bugs, plus we also know that they eat some of our berries and I personally know that they help to clean out the plums in my plum trees that are now almost 2 stories high and... ( added 326 days 13 hours ago.)

Arlenes Citrus and Avocado Salad Our oldest son, Don, is the President and CEO of Hale's Groves in Florida and that is not only something we are proud of, but it something that helps to keep us hale and hearty in our old age as Don has set up a gift fruit of the month program for... ( added 326 days 13 hours ago.)

Arlenes Quick and Easy Apple Tart Now that the fall harvest is over and the apples are picked and stored for the winter we can sit back and relax. The weather chills a little more each day, the holidays are coming up on us and life again becomes a little more hectic. Those of... ( added 326 days 13 hours ago.)

How to Make Herbes Salees For those of you who love French or Mediterranean cooking or for those of you who have an organic herb garden then making Herbes Salees may be something you all ready know about. Basically salted herbs were the mainstay of traditional Arcadian... ( added 328 days 3 hours ago.)

How to Grow Camellias I only had seen Camellias in the old black and white movie when I was a kid. You know the one I mean with the dying Greta Garbo and the handsome Robert Taylor. It was her favorite flower. So in 1987 I was surprised to see that Camellias came... ( added 332 days 12 hours ago.)

How to Plant a Halloween Herb Garden Though Halloween is past as is Thanksgiving and Christmas is looming large on the horizon I got to think about herb gardens I have seen in my travels. Right now it is too cold in my area of Zone 6 to deal with any garden, no less an herb garden. ... ( added 332 days 12 hours ago.)

How to Make a Good Spinach Soup For those organic gardeners who are able to get a good crop of spinach before the heat sets in or for those of you who can get an early fall crop of spinach set and harvested before the first frost then perhaps you might have a good spinach soup... ( added 341 days 2 hours ago.)

Throw Out Those Old Herbs and Spices Oh my goodness! What a terrible thing to say and what a terrible thing to write an article about especially by one of the most frugal person on this planet! But it is true and necessary if you want your food to be flavored at its best. You... ( added 341 days 2 hours ago.)

How to Prepare Your Pumpkin There are those who really love the flavor of fresh-baked pumpkins and do not mind taking the time to clean and bake them. They also know that the typical pumpkin sold for use as a Jack-o-Lantern is not the pumpkin to use since these are usually... ( added 343 days 15 hours ago.)

How to Make Spiced Pumpkin Seeds In a couple of my previous articles we learned the benefits of growing and/or eating pumpkins and we learned how to prepare pumpkin for making puree. For those of us who grow our own herbs or who just cook with herbs it is important to know... ( added 343 days 15 hours ago.)

The Many Benefits of Pumpkins Now that Thanksgiving is over with and Christmas is looming on the horizon we start to think about our Christmas baking. Not only for our big family meals, but for those wonderful little cookies and tea breads we distribute to our friends and... ( added 343 days 15 hours ago.)