Jerry Loggins

It really does my heart good to see that more people are turning to and relying on good old fashioned rain harvestings during these past few years of drought like conditions that we’ve been dealing with. Many people pay dearly for water services and some folks get theirs from their well, either way it takes money to get our much needed water supply to us that we depend on each and every day, while mother nature provides us water that just takes something like a rain barrel to collect to use.

My father used to always have a rain water barrel that he used for our small garden that we all worked so hard in year after year for our home grown fruits and vegetables that my mother loved cooking with. That made a big impression on us for years to come about rain harvesting.

I’m hearing that there are now more rain water barrels are being sold than ever before. Did you know you can find many rain barrels for sale right online at sites like simplyrainbarrels.com has to offer? They have a very large variety of  sizes, colors and shapes as well as various price ranges. What I really like is that simplyrainbarrels.com accepts PayPal, I’ve put an end to my credit cards and rely on my PayPal account more and more for online purchases such as this.

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I don’t usually chew gum.  My jaws get tired pretty quickly!  I don’t know why…..  But today Sam offered me a piece of Trident Layers Strawberry & Citrus gum to chew, and I have to say that it smelled so good that I just had to try it!  It was very tasty.  But as usual, my jaws got tired of chewing, and I spit it out after only a few minutes – long before the flavor was gone!  So I don’t know if that speaks for the staying power of the gum or not.  Hmmm… maybe I should have stuck it on the bedpost!

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With the mass exodus of manufacturing jobs in this country, I was surprised to see advertisements in the employment offer section of the newspaper for Quality Assurance Director Jobs. For a moment I was stumped – who in the world would be hiring for that job in this area? Then I remembered that there are some soda bottling plants in the area, and that is a possibility.

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Guest post by Linda Branson

When my parents took the family on one of their “we’ve just bought ourselves an RV” trips, we went to some kind of group outing. I guess it was an RV club that they joined. All I remember about it is being bored out of my mind, all of the RVs parked close together in a camp ground and going to a pot luck dinner (we took Swanson’s frozen macaroni and cheese) and then playing a couple of rounds of Bingo. I was very upset because I won the Bingo game where the prize was a curt trailer hitch, and I had no use for one of those! My parents were thrilled, but they didn’t give me anything for it, they just took it from me. I guess maybe that’s why I am not a Bingo fan! Win a dumb prize and have it taken away, why would anyone want to play a game like that!

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There was a nationwide recall of garlic bread in Australia a few years ago, including the garlic bread sold by Domino’s Pizza.  The recall happened because the bread turned blue when it was baked.  The company that makes the garlic bread says that they don’t believe that the bread is a health hazard, but recalled it anyway.  They have no explanation as to why it turns blue, they think it has something to do with the type of garlic that they used for this particular batch.  I don’t think that makes a lot of sense, I’ve never heard of garlic turning blue when it is baked – and if there WAS a garlic that turns blue when baked it seems to me that would be widely known in the culinary arts industry to begin with.  I think it sounds fishy to me! I wonder if they ever found anything out about what caused that!

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