I avoid lines with elderly people - no one use checks in my area, but they always seem to pay with cash, and often insist on making exact change by pulling coins one by one from a tiny change purse.

Same here in southern Ontario. I've had two full-size tomatoes so far this year. This week is probably the first time we've had more than a couple days of sun in a row.

It's kind of a hack, but I flag any recipes (mostly from this site) that I want to refer back to as "Shared" instead of "Starred". I don't use the Sharing function in Google Reader for anything els...

Fantastic! I have a two-foot around volunteer lemon balm plant (technically, a weed that I've been careful not to mow) in my back yard and I've been meaning to make tea^H^H^H tisane out of it.

I shouldn't knock it until I've tried it, but this seems like sweet-tooth overkill to me. Is this best reserved for store-bought berries that are bred for size & color rather than taste?

We almost never use our dishwasher (takes two hours to do dishes we could wash by hand in 15 minutes) so we use the dishwasher as a drying rack. Once in a while we'll run a load of dishes just to k...