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Blood meal works really well too...and it puts nitrogen (I think?) back into the soil. It's the only thing I've found to deter our squirrels from my tomatoes.

My parents live in the woods in a cedar sided house my grandparents built. Every year the woodpeckers decide that the bugs that are on the house look yummy. And every year we fill in the holes th...

Just go to Replacements.com http://www.replacements.com/webquote/CBLSTAX.htm Also that way you have a...

Yes! Every year my father and I (right around Thanksgiving in fact), go hunting persimmons. They're native to southern illinois (smaller than the asian varieties) and they aren't ripe until the f...

My husband I and own a t@b. And while we love it for camping, it would be a tight squeeze for us personally to do it for longer than a week. However, there's a couple who is living th...

I like to do my apple bbq pulled pork. Place the pork roast in the crock pot, cut up apples, cut up an onion or two, fill up the crock pot with apple juice, add a 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Turn on. ...

soak it in fabric softener (downy) and wait until it's saturated and it'll peel right off.

Lumber Liquidators sells butcher block in sections as well. It's on their website under "Specialty Items". Also, it might be worth a jaunt down to Effingham. That Boos location has an outlet sto...

You might have to try a different kind of crate. We had one of those hard plastic ones and our Gordon setter HATED it. She would cry and cry. Then my parents picked up a wire crate for her for th...

Don't forget to check the room and board clearance section too....There's also a tenpo tv stand in sepia that's on clearance for 399.99. We just bought ours and love it. It's a lighter color than...

Thing I miss most about the Pacific Northwest - Mountains!!! In all their snowcapped glory!!

Movie soundtrack? My mainstay for trying out any new speakers....Independence Day!

It's gotta be the casserole dish....blueberry french toast casserole. Yum!

I've gotta go with the split pea and ham with garlic croutons tossed in. Yum!

I think I'd have to keep it!!

Ohhhh!!! Me me me!!!!

I'd be carving up my turkey and ham on a board like this.

My favorite slow cooked dish is apple pulled bbq pork. Cook the pork loin in apple juice or apple cider, shred and add bbq. Yum!!

Just the classic grilled cheese, served with basil tomato soup. Just right for dippin'!

I would make sugar cookies with an almond glaze with these. Yum! I don't have snowman cookie cutters!!