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I've found that something bright white will reflect the light better than al foil. The white reflects one kind of heat better than foil and the foil reflects another kind better, but I can't remember which is which. I just know that white cloth or paper on the inside of my windows doesn't get hot like foil does, but when i put foil behind the wood stove the wall didn't get hot like it did with white. I just call it dark heat and light heat and the white reflects light and light heat while the foil reflects some light and most dark heat. (Does that make sense? )

Haven't been able to get Mrs S to load for several weeks, but I'm BACK!! Thanks to Twilight and Annarchy for your assistance!

Daughter cannot eat anything with gluten, corn, soy or fat as she is unable to digest those things. She cannot have meat, dairy or eggs from animals fed gluten, corn, or soy. I raise all our meat, dairy and eggs and bake/cook everything from scratch. I do buy fruits and veggies, but only in single ingredient cans or packages. Amazing what they will slip into a can or package and you have to be so diligent. I also have to use a cream separator on the goat milk to remove the fat for her. I have to cook her food separate from mine since some of the things in her diet, I cannot have because of kidney problems and some of the things I must have, make her ill.

I know people who do that, Jeepers. I've never bothered myself since rice really doesn't take a long time to cook and if I ever bug out, I won't be messing with rice one way or another. The ladies I know who do it are happy with it.

Yes, Jeepers, crap is how I feel about it. I just GOT these new dishes and now I'm afraid to keep them.

Parboiled and converted are the same. The rice is steamed in the husk before the husk is removed and more of the natural vitamins stay in the grain. It cooks up a bit faster than long grain but stays as separate grains unless you way overcook it. I use it mostly because I hate gooey, sticky rice. Minute is a brand name for an instant rice. You don't have to cook instant rice. You can add hot liquid to it and let it set a short time and eat or you can add cool liquid and let it set for a longer period and then eat it. Haven't used it in a long time. Use it when you really will not be able to cook because you don't have the fuel. There are many, many kinds of rice.

I'd like to get some bisque ware and paint it myself too.

Friend of mine had a dish explode in her face today. She didn't bump it, drop it or thermally shock it. She was holding it in her hand. I'm getting rid of my new corelle dishes. I do not want to take a chance on this happening. It has happened to others. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/corelle-dishes.htmlhttp://www.consumeraffairs.com/homeowners/corelle-dishes.html (Added by Cat) http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web?fcoid=417&fcop=topnav&fpid=2&q=exploding+corelle+dishes&ql=

You 'can' hull them, but it is a lot of tedious work without the right equipment. If you sprout them and then can wash the hulls off you can then dry and grind or wet grind, but again, removing the hulls will be tedious. You can store all of those, but frankly, unless the grains are hulled it is really better to buy them at a higher price and get them hulled except perhaps the wheat which is reasonably easy to hull. Still a lot more work than I want to do. Usually wheat is combined and that removes the hulls.

Happy anniversary! Hope you have many, many more!

You can save seeds from grocery store produce. Peach pits, apricot, apple seeds, squash seeds, etc can all be used to start something growing in unused ground. Just be sure it IS unused and not somebody's field laying fallow.

You can't force responsibility and maturity on your husband.You might be better off without him.

We've been breaking high temp records. Not at all normal to be in the 80s in january! I have a lot of outside work to do and it is too uncomfortable to really work in.

One of my neighbors said his wife sets votive candles on the floor so they can see where they are walking. I was thinking maybe some of those solar lights could be set on the floor. Neighbor doesn't have children or indoor pets but if you have either, candles on the floor wouldn't be safe.

I've had a good number of lovely showers from water running off a roof, but never got struck by lightening!

Hope you still feel better.

Can you screw a piece of plywood over the dog door? Dog might have to stay out when nobody is home to let him in or out. I'd be thinking of getting shed of the old dog and just having the new one too.

IMHO, living in a travel trailer isn't the same as in a car or out in the woods under a tarp like that woman is doing.

I cannot believe she would live homeless to "help" her adult children! They need to learn to stand on their own feet!

I started cooking when I was 9. Frankly, the family was so happy to have something edible on the table, they'd eat anything I dished up. Mom was the lousiest cook! She just left me to it.

Praying for you! If it gets worse DO go to the ER. This can be life threatening.

I'm so glad for you, Kappy! Will join the rest in praying it all goes well and you have a speedy recovery.

I've read that centipedes eat bed bugs, but I heartily dislike centipedes. The BBs have a habit of staying in cracks in walls and furniture, but may not actually be in the bed during the day.

I raw pack turkey with breast meat separate from dark. I cut leg meat off the bone but don't bother with the tendons (those flat bony things). When you go to use the meat the tendons will slide right out of the meat so easily that it is not worth the work to take them out before canning. I put a little salt in and water enough for 1/2 inch headroom and process in the pressure canner. Roasting or cooking prior to packing into the jars is way too much extra work!

http://www1.extension.umn.edu/garden/insects/find/bed-bugs-and-traveling/