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Yes, I could go to the big box hardware and ask this... but why waste the gas when I can get info here? I bought a handicap lift for my mom to go next to their pool. The pool has a concrete sidewalk around it so in order to put the lift in I need to drill a 3" hole in the sidewalk. Or...

Yes, I am the "dummy" in question. I have never cooked. Ever. Unless you count the VERY basics such as eggs/ microwave bacon, grilling, opening a can of soup or packet of Ramen noodles. Lately I have tried my hand at simple, fun stuff - preserves (figs, strawberry-fig), blueberry jam...

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I have a huge, old fig tree that has been on the property for probably 20 years or more. Every year we have a bumper crop of figs... except this year. The tree filled up with little green figs and every single one of them (no exceptions) dropped off before ripening. Then there is a medium...

I am in need of a "Cooking with Real Pumpkins for Dummies" book. When I cut a pumpkin, how in the world do I clean out all of that stringy mess? No matter how I pull and scrape, there seems to be gobs of it left over?

there is an official handbook

saw this today - frozen vegetables recalled because of glass fragments http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/16/veggie.recall/index.html?hpt=T2

I'm AL - (Aunt Lori)- to those who are my heart and soul ( 1 niece 20yrs old, 3 nephews 12-18yrs). I don't even remember how "AL" came about, but that is what they call me now :lol: For the sake of understanding me, I refer to them as "my" kids ;) 01. Name? Lori 02. Gender? Female 03...

http://pensacola.craigslist.org/grd/1857296748.html I would like to buy a cow old enough to be bred, but not so old it won't be any good to me for long. Is this one about right? Is she priced pretty normally?

I have my garden plot tilled and now I am wondering is it just too hot for tender young plants? I want to plant southern peas, okra, corn, pumpkins and MAYBE try tomatoes again (didn't have much luck with those 1st go 'round). I am in zone 8b and my "what to plant now" from mother earth news...

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I have been reading here for a week or 2 (member of BYC) and really feel like some of the changes that I can learn here will be very helpful. A little about me: I was laid off from a very well paying job in Feb '00. In April '00 I started a job that paid less than half of what I was...