Our current version of daylight savings time ends the first sunday of November (November 2 this year) at 2:00 am local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 am local standard time. Daylight time will resume the second Sunday in March, March 8, 2009, at 2:00 am local time. Our current verison became law in 2005. Many
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Bill and Sharon Kastrinos move to a small space is featured on Friday’s CNN, along with a link to accompanying “iReports” from citizen journalists about their move to smaller living. The CNN story also makes the connection to Jay Shafer of the Tumbleweed Tiny House. Shafer has recently been on a road show with his
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Our friends at WiseBread picked up this story that originates with the Environmental Working Group listing the pesticide load of produce in a simple to follow chart. The group bases it’s list on research:
Is garlic mustard weed edible?
The young leaves of garlic mustard weed are edible as salad greens and are high in vitamins A and C. Mustard weed was brought to America by early settlers, who used it as a spring potherb and to flavor other foods. The common name results from the faint garlic odor of
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Is there something I can do in the garden this fall to control bugs that will eat my vegetables next season?
If you till your garden in the late fall, you will expose insects hiding there to harsh winter conditions and reduce their populations next year. Fall tilling may help kill corn borers, cucumber beetles, squash
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The Hunter’s moon is full in October, named as deer and other wild game are fattened and the leaves are falling. Many fields are harvested, making it easy to locate hunting prey.
You remember the tv commercial, don’t you. Sally Struthers, of All in the Family fame, doing the voice over
Do you want to make more money, of course, we all do.
and then the screen scrolled text listing:
High School
TV/VCR repair
Computer programming
Electrician
Animal Care specialist
Auto mechanic
PC repair technician
Book keeping
Legal Assistant
Medical office management
Hotel/Restaurant mangement
Electronics
What I didn’t know as I watched
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