Take it with you always….you never know when you will find that perfect shot.

Take photos at interesting and unusual angles…..gives a new prospective on things.

Never wait for that perfect pose….it never happens if you wait.

Don’t be afraid of using your zoom for things you thought you shouldn’t use it for……can even be used on those not real far away things.

Take early morning shots….no shadows.

Take shots of unusual objects that will add that….who would have thought of that.

From a twitter friend: Next time you have your camera out try holding a piece of screen in front of the lens,great at nite with lites in background.

This is an endless list that I will add to as new ideas come along…..all ideas from you are welcome here.

I’m always looking for things that are simple and quick to make. Well this couldn’t be simpler and quicker…..takes longer to type this then to make it! LOL

Crunchy Granola Bars

2 eggs
2 cups granola cerial

Beat eggs well, then stir in cerial. Pour into greased 9 inch(2.5L) sq pan. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 350 F (180C). Cut into bars while still warm.

The weather is warm…the sun is shining…..no sign of rain……a very go day to go garage sailing…
How many of us have gone to garage sales for things you needed but came away with lots of things you could have lived with out?
I did a lot of that til I went through all the stuff I owned and hadn’t seen for weeks maybe even years.I now go with the following instilled in my mind. Do I need it? Will it serve it’s purpose?
This past week I went with that in mind. I came away with a lot of goodies all that I know I will use and all at a good deal.There was a multi-garage sale in our village and in the town next to us…..so it was an all day excursion with friends!! Loved it!
It was surprising what was out there. I’ve wanted a portable CD player so I could take it with me on my walks. Got one for a whole dollar….and it works perfectly!! Went to another one a couple blocks down and got an mp3 player for $7!! I’m all set now.Of course I had to add to my reading collection……I was a bit disappointed there. Wasn’t a large selection……then again I may have missed them. We had a late start to the day. You need to be early to these. I did end up with a couple cookbooks and a ‘Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul’ book….also a good mystery.
Being with friends that love garage sailing also makes it all that much more fun as I heard my friends say…There’s one over there…’
Will I go again? Won’t have to be asked twice!!

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little “stringy things” off of it. That’s how the primates do it. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler a nd pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simple chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream.

1. Reheat Pizza. Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.

2. Easy Deviled Eggs. Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are allbroken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

3. Expanding Frosting. When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving

4. Reheating refrigerated bread. To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

5. Newspaper weeds away. Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.

6. Broken Glass. Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

7. No More Mosquitoes. Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

8. Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and the squirrels won’t come near it.

9. Flexible vacuum. To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty
gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.

10. Reducing StaticCling . Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and — ta da! — statics gone.

11. Measuring Cups: Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

12. Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in theglove box of your car. W hen the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Worksbetter than a cloth!

13. Reopening envelope: If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.

14. Conditioner. Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s a lot cheaper than shaving cream
and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair…

15. Goodbye Fruit Flies. To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2? with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

16. Get rid of Ants. Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it,take it”home,” can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

The full moon occurs once every lunar cycle–about every month or so. Many cultures had a name for the full moons of different times of the year; below are a few from some Native American Indian cultures.

JANUARY

The January full moon is known as the Wolf moon because, among the frigid cold and deep snow of mid-winter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside native Indian villages. It was also known as the Old moon.

FEBRUARY

This full moon is known as the Snow moon, since snowfall is generally heaviest during this month. Since hunting becomes difficult with heavy snow, some early tribes knew this moon as the Hunger moon.

MARCH

Indian tribes of what is now the northeastern United States knew this moon as the Worm moon because this is the time when the ground softens and the earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of robins. It is also the time when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter, inspiring the more northern tribes to call it the Crow moon. Others named it the Crust moon because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing by night, or the Sap moon which marked the time for tapping the maple trees.

APRIL

This moon is often known as the Pink moon because, at this time of year, the grass pink or wild ground phlox is the most common flower around. Coastal tribes knew it as the Fish moon, since the shad were now coming upstream to spawn. Other names were the Sprouting Grass moon and the Egg moon.

MAY

The full moon of May was known to many as the Flower moon, since flowers were abundant everywhere. Some tribes knew it as the Corn Planting moon, or the Milk moon.

JUNE

The June full moon was known to every Algonquin tribe as the Strawberry moon, and the Europeans called it the Rose moon, probably because it shines low in the northern hemisphere’s sky and our atmosphere gives it a pinkish color.

JULY

Many native Indian tribes knew this full moon as the Buck moon. This was a time when the new antlers of buck deer pushed out from their foreheads. It was also a time of frequent thunderstorms, and this full moon was also known as the Thunder moon.

AUGUST

This full moon was often known as the Sturgeon moon, since this was a time when this large fish is readily caught. A few tribes knew it as the Red moon, because it rises with a reddish appearance in the sultry haze low to the horizon. Some called it the Green Corn moon.

SEPTEMBER

The September full moon is the most famous of all: the Harvest moon. It is the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox, so named by farmers of old whose corn, pumpkins, squash, beans and wild rice were traditionally ready for gathering at this time of year. Its significance, however, comes from the fact that, during September, the moon’s orbit is inclined very little to the horizon and, from our perspective, the full moon appears to rise in the southeastern sky only a bit later each evening, providing farmers a few hours of “extra” light after sundown to complete their harvest.

OCTOBER

This moon was known to Native Indian tribes as the Hunter’s moon. With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, this was the time for hunting and stocking up for the cold winter months.

NOVEMBER

This month’s full moon was known as the Beaver moon, since this was the time to set the beaver traps before the swamps froze to ensure a supply of warm winter furs.

DECEMBER

The December full moon was called by some native Indian tribes as the Cold moon, while others knew it as the Long Nights moon. It was so named because the winter cold fastens its grip, and the nights are longest and darkest, at this time of year.

DO YOU LIKE SPAM??? IF NOT PLEASE BE KIND AND USE BCC: (below Cc: and above Subject:)!!!!!! A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you’re sure you already follow proper procedures.Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That’s right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps. Try the following if you haven’t done it before:

(1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That’s right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second. You MUST click the ‘Forward’ button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don’t click on ‘Forward’ first, you won’t be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don’t see your BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that’s it, it’s that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say ‘Undisclosed Recipients in the ‘TO:’ field of the people who receive it.

(3) Remove any ‘FW :’ in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent.

(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein. DO NOT put your email address on any petition. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (And don’t believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain’t so!)

Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are:

1. The one that says something like, ‘Send this email to 10 people and you’ll see something great run across your screen.’ Or sometimes they’ll just tease you by saying ’something really cute will happen.’ IT AIN’T GONNAHAPPEN!!!!! (We are still seeing some of the same emails that we waited on 10 years ago!)

2. I don’t let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed.

3. Before you forward an ‘Amber Alert’ , or a ‘Virus Alert’ , or some of the other emails floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that’s been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out a Snopes. Just go to www.snopes.com . It’s really easy to find out if it’s real or not. If it’s not, please don’t pass it on.

So please, in the future, let’s stop the junk mail and the viruses.

1. A little oatmeal adds much flavor and richness when used as a thickener for soups. Try it.

2. Believe it or not, a boiled egg should never be boiled. Simmering produces tastier, better results. The same is also true of “hard-boiled” eggs.

3. Cheese souffle will stay up high, light, handsome, if you use quick-cooking tapioca instead of flour to thicken the milk base. Take 3 tablespoons tapioca to 1 cup milk for a 3-egg souffle.

4. Add one-quarter teaspoon soda to cranberries while cooking them and they will not require much sugar.

5. Don’t add sugar to sweeten peas. It’s much cheaper, and tastier, to cook peas with a few empty green pods.

6. To prevent the smell of cooking greens, add a lump or so of loaf sugar to the water, or put a piece of dry toast in a clean muslin bag and boil it with the greens. Another method is to add a teaspoonful of vinegar to the water when it is boiling.

7. Lemon juice or vinegar in the water cauliflower is cooked in makes it keep its snowy-white color.

8. To preserve the color of green vegetables, put them on to cook in boiling water with a pinch of soda, or keep the cover off the kettle while boiling them.

9. If a vegetable or cereal burns, plunge the vessel containing the burned mass into cold water and allow it to remain for a few minutes before pouring the contents into another pan. This will do away almost entirely with the burned taste which is so disagreeable.

10. Salt beef is improved in flavor if a few small onions and a dessertspoonful of brown sugar are added while cooking.

11. Vegetables that are to be cooked by steaming will preserve their color in the process if, after being washed in the usual way, they are given a final rinse in boiling water containing a little soda.

12. To prevent the odor of boiling ham or cabbage permeating the house add a little vinegar to the water in which they are boiled.

13. When frying fish, use clarified dripping or salad oil. Lard smells, and butter fries a bad color.

14. A teaspoonful of vinegar added to the water in which eggs are poached keeps the whites from spreading and makes the whites cook over the yolk.

15. To prevent milk or cream from curdling when used in combination with tomato, add a bit of bicarbonate of soda to each before they are mixed.

16. Sausages will shrink less and not break at all if they’re boiled about 8 minutes before they’re fried, or rolled lightly in flour.

17. Wash leafy vegetables, such as spinach, thoroughly just before cooking. Add no water-the water that clings to the leaves is enough to cook them in.

18. To keep cauliflower snowy white, soak for half an hour in cold salt water before cooking it.

19. Lessen the odor of cooking turnips by adding a teaspoonful of sugar to the water. They’ll be more flavorful, too.

20. When slicing potatoes, hold the paring knife over a gas flame or in boiling water and the potatoes will slice easily.

21. Root vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, etc., should be freed from all dirt and grit; those of the green variety should be allowed to soak for a few minutes in cold water to which a generous pinch of salt has been added.

22. You won’t waste flour if you dust it from a large saltshaker onto meats, fish, or patties, instead of dipping the food into the flour. It’s easier, too.

23. Retain flavor and vitamins and save waste by boiling carrots in their skins. Instead of peeling, mash them with salt and pepper.

24. Keep sweet potatoes from looking dried out by greasing the skins with any cooking fat or oil before baking them.

25. Why waste celery tops? Cut them up and use to flavor meats, stews, soups, roasts, stuffings.

Ask some of the more successful Multi-Level-Marketers and they will tell you that the key factor in MLM networking is simplicity.MLM networking is a very simple business. But keeping it simple does not mean that hard work is not involved. One of the common mistakes is that people try to make it complicated.

Even if a complex system achieved great results for you, others will find it difficult to copy. In MLM networking, personal success is not your greatest asset.

Your greatest asset is having a system that guarantees the success of everyone using it. The success of others, and your success, is dependant upon their ability to do the same things you do. Keep the least experienced of those in your network in mind when you set up a system of doing things for your organization to follow.

Everything you do must be simple enough so that everyone can quickly duplicate your efforts and achieve the same phenomenal results as you.

In MLM networking, you should not do things that require special skills, resources which are available only to you or to a limited number of people. Open up your business to a much larger pool of people who can become successful. You need to build your network as quickly as possible. You can only meet with a few people each day and can personally close even fewer sales.

But using an MLM networking strategy, you can help others quickly learn to do the same simple things as you. When they do, they multiply your efforts.

Go for the same phenomenal results. This is quality duplication. Each person in your MLM networking, from top to bottom, must be able to exactly duplicate what you are doing and be able to teach others to do exactly the same thing. How large a sales team you can build depends on how well it is duplicated.

To ensure duplication, you need a system or processes that anybody and everybody can follow and teach. You cannot duplicate a person but you can duplicate a system.

In building a successful and long-term network, the MLM networking system must rule. Remember a system is only as good as it is duplicated.

The more complex a system, the less likely quality duplication will be achieved. To make sure you duplicate well, follow the System you are provided with religiously. There is no perfect system and your time is better spent perfecting your ability to duplicate it rather than perfecting a system.

Being on the farm and wanting to stay healthy I like to add new healthy products each time I go shopping and make a commitment to use them to improve my health and well being.

Here are some that I have tried and like…..you may too. You can find them at a health food store, and online, you may even find them at regular your grocery store.

Sources of protein I have added and now enjoy.

Garbanzo beans (chick peas) are a favorite of mine that you can roast or add to a salad. For a meatless meal they are packed more iron than any other bean. I used to only think of these in baking but now have added raw almonds and walnuts to my diet. A small handful of these a day are a great source of sustainable protein and healthy fat also good for the heart. Which brings us to whole grains that we have tried; like brown rice bread and sprouted whole grain bread that I’m told is good to avoid allergies, mental fog and weight gain. Buying a bread machine has made this easy for me…we have a different loaf each day or so. Have used different flours….like millet, tricale, spelt and kamut that I add as part of the flour mixture I use in my bread.

Having a Quinoa plant close by we have tried and like this. Has a lot of protein.

It’s very delicious in soups and salads, full of fiber and B vitamins and one of the least allergenic foods.

I grow my own garden have tried growing some of the following produce. Some I have had success with….others I just buy in the store. These I have grown leeks, red radishes, green onions which are powerful fat emulsifiers. I want to try growing broccoli sprouts this spring With having a sister in law that is battling breast cancer…I have recently found out that the sprouts have 10 times more cancer-fighting ability than mature broccoli. It’s never to late to add things like this to your diet. I also grow my own carrots, beans peas, green bean, corn, swiss chard, lettuce, beets –love the greens. Turnips are anothe favorite for a low carb in stead of potatoes that we also grow — grow mostly red as they are healthier. We do like the white for baking and the occasional dish of fries. Yes the once in a while comfort food is OK. Kale is something I had thought was more ornamental then anything then I find out it’s the most powerful source of absorbed

calcium than any other food. That will be a must try for me to eat and maybe grow.

During the colder months I rely on the bagged mixed greens that I like sprinkling with fresh lemon that is a powerful internal detoxifier.

As you can see we have tried and like a lot of different things. Other things we tried and liked are mangoes, avocados, star fruit, pomegranates, papaya…..to name a few. I can remember my mom always saying try it you won’t know if you like it or not unless you do……

There are two main types of vitamins, water soluble vitamins and fat soluble vitamins, the way the body does or doesn’t store vitamins from food depends what type it is. The body can’t store water soluble vitamins this means you need to replentish your water soluble vitamin intake on a daily basis. The eight B vitamins and vitamin C are water soluble vitamins and the body cannot store vitamin content that is either of these.

It is not simply that the body can’t store vitamins that are water soluble but also the water soluble vitamins are easily destroyed by improper storage, handling, or cooking of foods that contain these vitamins. It’s important you don’t overcook your veggies by boiling them. The water soluble vitamins will be cooked out of them, this can be overcome by light cooking or steaming and by using the water that veggies have been cooked in to form sauces and gravies or as I do add the water as part of the liquid in my daily loaf of bread I bake in my bread machine. Since the body cannot store vitamin C or the other water soluble vitamins it is essential to eat a well balanced diet with at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables. To be sure that enough vitamins are available for the body to use when necessary and a person doesn’t suffer from a vitamin deficiency due to the body’s inability to store vitamins.

On the other hand, the body can store vitamin content that is fat soluble. The body will store the vitamin content in your fat cells so that it can be used when required. A person does not need to consume as many of these fat soluble vitamins on as frequent a basis as they do with water soluble vitamins. The fat cells store vitamin A, D, E, and K as these are all fat soluble vitamins.

It is very important to store vitamin supplements correctly so that the beneficial qualities of these are not diminished. The best way to store vitamin supplements is in a container with a screw top lid and to keep the container in a dry place. When you store vitamin supplements it is a good idea to check the expiration date to make sure they are not outdated.. The vitamin content of supplements cannot be guaranteed if you store vitamin tablets past their use by date.