If you are at all concerned about the current federal legislation going to the senate to cut off Planned Parenthood from all federal funding, please go to this website and sign the petition.  Thank you.

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Ok, thinking about my group of friends, I suspect this may be a whopping zero of you, but it's worth a shot.  With my friends, guns, yes, fishing rods.... probably not.  I have a mission... well, self appointed... to re-set up the school aquarium as a reflection of the Maryland fresh water habitat.  It's a 125 gal tank that has been unused for 3 ( Read more... )

 Passed on from shesqueals :

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After having read the book Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes I can't say I'm surprised by this.  It is well explained in his book how the human body processes fat in food differently from carbohydrates in food, along with the associate hormone and metabolic ( Read more... )

 Morning of Day 1: Teotihuacan.  Follow the link to my scrapbook.

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Enjoy!

 If I had a chance to do this all over again, there are definitely things I'd do differently.  Having to rush these due to an impending deadline did not help.  I made a few small mistakes that I hope won't come back to haunt me, but I guess I'll know by the end of August.  I made 6 pints of hot garlic dill spears, and 6 pints of bread and butter ( Read more... )

 Today I was able to breath a sigh of relief.  I seem to be making better progress on the class schedules for next year, and I can actually see an end in sight.  2 days ago I thought I was going to be in scheduling hell forever.  So much so that Wednesday night I woke up at 2:00am, and proceeded to have an attack of the nerves for the next 2 hours ( Read more... )

 So, if you've seen me lately, you probably know I've been making jam this spring/summer.  Probably the little jars of jam that are popping up in your homes after I visit may have been a clue.  Sometimes it has been less subtle ("Here, takes this off my hands, Plz!").  The biggest thing I have been working on is fine tuning how sweet I like my jam ( Read more... )