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October 9, 2009
| Posted in Skin & Body Care
Healthy - What??? The only thing here that's remotely connected to "health" is the name!
I don't care what you're using to spray yourself brown, it's not about health, and it's not healthy.
If this practice happens to float your boat, then go for it, but please don't use the word "health'.
July 22, 2009
| Posted in Hair Care
Good shampoo at four times the price This is a good, mild shampoo. It didn't do anything particularly wonderful to my hair, neither did it cause any damage. It's mild enough to use every day, which is something I look for in a shampoo, but still left my hair feeling clean. The fragrance is excellent, a pleasant floral citrus that...
October 29, 2008
| Posted in Food & Grocery
Just Candy (even if it is organic) Pure Fun is a U.S. company that makes simple hard candy in a variety of flavors and shapes. They have fruit pinwheels, lollipops, orange slices, nuggets with chocolate filling, and - my personal favorite - rootbeer barrels.
Everything is made with organic brown rice syrup, and my least-favorite...
September 6, 2008
| Posted in Clothing
Cotton & silk - Yarn & fabric If you're searching for truly organic silk, cotton and hemp yarns and fabrics, look no further than Aurora Silk.
Fabrics include a variety of hemps and cottons, all of them either organic or transitional, most of them from India. The silks range from lustrous to shiny, some of them woven on foot...
July 31, 2008
| Posted in In the Kitchen
Chocolate by any other name - This looks like a great recipe and I plan to give it a try, but I'll have to call it something different. My family would riot if I prepared them for chocolate chip cookies and they bit into a cranberry!
May 29, 2008
| Posted in Food & Grocery
Good Brownies first, Gluten Free second The waves of chocolate rising from the pan when you take it out of the oven says it all...
This is a convenient mix that produces a big pan of really good brownies that are also gluten free. I make them exactly as advised on the bag except that I've thrown in a handful of chocolate chips and...
May 7, 2008
| Posted in Food & Grocery
Good - not great - Gluten Free Chocolate Cake When I made this mix, I used oil and eggs exactly as suggested on the box. The only thing tricky was trying to determine when it was done, it's a very dense, sticky mixture that I didn't want to overbake.
Now for the important question - how did it taste? When you consider that I served it to...
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May 6, 2008
| Posted in Transportation
Can we take our roads back?
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March 11, 2008
| Posted in Pets
A Squirrel Too Far? When spring started to become official, I began to think about supporting the local flock of acorn woodpeckers. I love to watch them at the birdbath, and a woodpecker moving around a tree trunk is a cross between a dancer and a magician.
The best thing to feed woodpeckers seems to be black oil...
