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I love the looks of this - I'd be a buyer. I hope they find someone in the US to manufacture it for them!

I agree with GreatFriend - I want to go to dinner at TallSarah's house! I am putting this on the list to try this week-end.

This looks delicious - I love potato soup. I have copied and pasted it into my "to try" file.

I have been searching for a very long time for a copycat recipe for the Nature Valley crunchy granola bars - l love them! I like the flavor and the extreme crunchiness although they are messy to eat. These chewy bars...not so much. If anyone has a great recipe for a crunchy bar I'd love to try it.

We also have a Penzy's in Omaha, NE - we had ordered on line for a few years when one day my husband was looking at their catalogue and we discovered they had opened a store here. It's a little bit of a jaunt from where we live but worth the trip! The smell inside the story is heavenly - we are replacing all our spices with Penzy's little by little...

I love the idea of canning tomatoes since I could eat something with tomatoes in it seven days a week - but - I'm scared to death that if I try to canning this summer I will poison myself and someone else! Any thoughts for a "canning virgin"?

As a corporate relocation director for a real estate firm in the Midwest, part of my responsibility is to manage corporate inventory homes when individuals have been transferred to another location and left their homes to be sold by their employer. A lot of these employers in effect “purchase” the home from the employee so they have the equity out of the home to purchase in a new location. It then becomes my job to ready these homes for the open market and get them sold. Neutralizing is a basic in my industry. I have seen some wallpaper and paint combinations you wouldn’t believe. I even have a PowerPoint presentation I use from time to time for certain meetings, etc. that shows some of these creative uses color. We use a color called “Biscuit” for neutralizing most homes. It’s a soft light taupe color. What we’ve found is that most potential buyers have a very hard time visualizing what a home will look like without wallpaper and/or “custom” or designer colors. Also, most buyers today don’t want to re-hab houses and have to paint, etc. after they move in (especially in the higher price ranges). They want to move in, put their stuff away and go on with their life. All that said I love colors and just painted one bedroom wall a deep chocolate brown – which will have to be “neutralized” should we ever decide to sell this home. Just my 0.2 cents and a little different perspective.

Trish