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I use dry rice kernels. I put some in the raw sugar I use on a daily basis in my coffee too. Just a few kernels in my sugar dish, and it never gets hard!
Pulls the moisture out of the sugar, I guess. On occasion, you find a few rice kernels at the bottom of your coffee cup, but no problem there...

I am surprised no one mentioned Russo's?
A 30-year old, Italian market that has now turned into a super farmer's market with amazing ethnic food (indian and asian peppers and veggies, bresaola and procuitto my italian friends swear by, french cheeses, and all the mushrooms or balsamic vinegars you could find in the old country). They try to only buy veggies from local farmers if possible (making the selection and quality much more extensive in our sadly short warm season) - but the prices are unbelievable. Last summer, I ate heirloom tomatoes almost every night for dinner with fresh mozzarella and sea salt and olive oil (all from Russo's)... and the tomatoes? less than $2 a pound!!

They sell seeds and flowers and plants too, and cut flowers and wreaths, and pots for your container garden. location isn't too great (you need a car) and it is super crowded, but it makes boston worth it. This market alone.

Really funny that you show that first pic in the story.
I have exactly the same paint color in my recently renov. kitchen and it is Ben Moore's "evening light". I bought it for the exact reason you state, and the reason I like the light in the evening, most of the time of the week when I have any time to cook. It is warm, inviting, and soothing, like a kitchen is to me after a long day...

i really wanted the jewelry hanger (tree) they had out of this woodcut material around the holidays, but I didn't want to spend more than $30 on what seems like a few layers of particle board - any idea where you can get this material, and if an Xacto knife or simple craft knife will do the trick? Thx!

The worst for me was a roommate who used to go into my room and steal my clothes when I was at work, and then deny it when I came home and saw her wearing them (she started wearing her coat INSIDE the house to avoid my asking about my clothes that she was wearing. I installed a keylock doorknob on my bedroom door which prompted her to ask me why I didn't trust her anymore?

I was wondering the same thing but for a gorgeous leather couch which my cat previously ignored, but now recently is using as a scratching post (despite having three other posts which he loves!).

I bought a suede slipcover bc I read that cats hate the feeling of suede, but I was hoping someone had an idea of a smell that cats hate or something that I could find in a lotion or oil to rub onto the couch?

Thx!

Oh wait - I take it back - she has her dad's last name!!

Wow!

I am not even a smoker, but where do you expect people who do smoke to live? I completely disagree - if we can't even have our own habits in our own home, where can we? It would also restrict people who want to rent their place out after they move out. Trying to restrict that among renters would sure cut down your options of whom to rent to.

My building is nonsmoking in all public areas, which means stairwells and behind the back door, entryway, hallways, laundryroom, etc. but an old building (not concrete) and it works well. Occasionally I get a waft in my bathroom of the person in the unit next to mine smoking near an open window, but I find that to be no different (given that it is occasional) from the occasional waft of bad perfume or bad cooking...

avocados
chewy candy like licorice (mmm the black kind)