Therese Z's Profile

I think everybody is missing the point: in most of the models in the comments, you'd have to have the curtains pulled back to run the A/C. At night, that's a privacy issue.

I have a similar problem, although my AC unit is centered under two windows.

I think the person was asking for a solution that would allow the windows to be covered AND run the A/C. That does seem to suggest a blind over the two windows, so one could stop above the AC unit. I think there's a chance for some fun color on the blinds.

Everybody's ideas for covering the windows when the AC is NOT needed are dandy. But not practical.

I too bring the ring back a quarter-turn after the jar has cooled completely. It also helps loosen any goo in there so you can get the ring off later.

I leave the rings on most of the time (unless I run short in a particular vigorous canning season) because I give so much away, and you can't give someone a jar of jelly or pickles that they can't reclose. I train them to give back the jar and the ring, so it's no loss.

The 1920's kitchen in the house I grew up was walled in shiny enamelled metal tile. My parents waxed them once a year and they looked fab AND the dirt didn't stick as bad.

They didn't corrode either, and the house went to my friends with the tile as nice as when we got it.

MJS: I do not love the aroma of bananas (or other aromatic foods,) and appreciate being protected from them

Protected? That seems a little...precious. I doubt you have children, or you would know that if a banana is the ONE food the toddler will always eat, then it's bananas for everybody to keep him happy and comfortable on the plane, which must be necessary travel for him, since the tickets have gotten so pricy.

A public conveyance is a temporary democratic institution. Live and let live. If you want to be "protected" from your fellow human beings, then don't fly. Or take the train or bus. Or go in a store or a restaurant.

99% of children don't mean to be annoying, anyway, and their poor parents are undoubtedly trying.

Whether outdoor rugs stand up to the elements or not, there is always the issue of the eight billion earwigs that will crawl out from underneath one if left with a puddle underneath it in some parts of the country. Outdoor rugs are not the foregone conclusion in the rainy farmland parts of the country that they might be elsewhere.

They're not bad as iced teas, often. I have a blueberry-flavored one, blech, that made quite a tasty iced drink.

Windows on three sides! That is essentially not possible in small rental spaces. I can't imagine how the total building is shaped to provide this wash of light.

No bedside lamp?

Beautiful calm colors, jaunty prints. Lots of good ideas.

Wouldn't it heave in the first good freeze?

Beautiful but it would only last a year or two?

We've made the piped ones, Martha's recipe, and once you get the knack, they come out very cute, I think cuter than these cutout ones. We served all the failures anyway and called them "Easter Poops."

We used dark food coloring (mixed all the colors together) and a round-ended toothpick to dot on eyes, I think that's better than trying to keep track of sesame seeds.

"(A Statue of St. Anyone is idolatry and it directs worship to someone other than God)" - really, are you kidding? The statue of Michael Jordan out in front the United Center makes him an idol? The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial forces you to worship?

Puh-leeze. Images of people we respect and venerate are never worshiped - that would be creepy.

People mix up their folk stories with their religion and almost wilfully ignore the reason and truth that would keep the balance between the two. Burying a statue is superstitution and saying it disrespects St. Joseph, faithful, silent St. Joseph, that it hurts his feelings, somehow, is also superstitution. It does breed a certain disrespect so it should be avoided, though.