 Arts & Crafts
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Land O Lakes® Butter Flasher
Special thanks to Dan Braun who taught me how to do this back in '97.
Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to create your very own Land O Lakes® Butter Flasher.
Click here to see it in action.
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Joke of the Month
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String Theory
A string walks into a bar with a few friends and orders a beer. The bartender says, "I'm sorry, but we don't serve strings here."
The string walks away a little upset and sits down with his friends. A few minutes later he goes back to the bar and orders a beer. The bartender, looking a little exasperated, says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve strings here."
So the string goes back to his table. Then he gets an idea. He ties himself in a loop and messes up the top of his hair. Then he walks back up to the bar and orders a beer.
The bartender squints at him and says, "Hey, aren't you a string?"
And the string says, "Nope, I'm a frayed knot."
Moses, Jesus and a little old man
Moses, Jesus and a little old man were out playing golf one day.
Moses teed up his golf ball, took a swing and watched the ball fly. It hit the side of the hill where the green was located, and rolled back down into a water hazard.
Moses went over and raised his arms. The water parted, he walked over, picked up the golf ball and tossed it onto the green.
Jesus teed up his ball, took a swing and watched the ball fly. It, too, hit the side of the hill where the green was located and rolled back down into the water hazard.
Jesus walked out onto the water hazard, reached into the water, picked up his golf ball and tossed it onto the green.
The little old man teed up his golf ball, took a swing and watched the ball fly. It hit the side of the hill and started rolling toward the water hazard, but before the ball hit the water, a rabbit ran out of its hole and started running away with the ball. An eagle swooped down, grabbed the rabbit still holding the golf ball and started to fly away. A bolt of lightning came down out of the sky, hit the eagle which dropped the rabbit. As the rabbit hit the ground, it dropped the golf ball and ran back into its hole. The golf ball rolled into the cup for a hole-in-one.
Jesus turned to the little old man and said, "Nice shot, dad."
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Culinary Q & A
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Q: How do I make fluffy scrambled eggs?
A: Use milk.
Crack the eggs into a bowl and whisk in the milk. Season the eggs with salt and beat the mixture with a fork or whisk until combined. Over-beating makes the eggs thin. As the eggs cook, the milk turns into steam, puffing up the eggs as they firm. The traces of sugar, fats and protein in the milk also help to make larger curds. The larger the curds, the more steam is trapped. Water will dilute the flavor and they will not be as soft and fluffy. Don't add more than five teaspoons of milk per egg, because the eggs can't absorb all that milk.
Cook the eggs in a heavy nonstick pan or a well-seasoned pan to prevent the eggs from sticking. Don't use too large a pan either, or the batter will spread out and cook too quickly. An eight-inch pan works well for two eggs, a 10-inch pan for four eggs. Preheating the pan over a medium heat also keeps the eggs from sticking.
Add butter or oil - about a teaspoon per egg - and heat it. Add the eggs and let them begin to set; then, with a heatproof rubber spatula, push the curds to one side and let the uncooked eggs spread over the surface of the pan. Repeat this action until the eggs are cooked to the desired degree of doneness - eggs taste best if cooked slightly moist.
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Cornucopia
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Quotable Quotes
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-- Dale Carnegie
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
"Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
-- Horace (Roman poet)
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Paul Harvey Advice to Parents
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better. I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down
clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would...
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Juggling Life
In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one's other commitments:
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them: work, family, health, friends and spirit. Your job is to keep all five balls in
the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls, family, health, friends and spirit, are
made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand
that as you strive for balance in your life.
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Rocky's Recommended Readings
 Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson M.D.
The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.
The Millionaire Mind, Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie
The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success, William J. O'Neil
Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
The E Myth, Michael E. Gerber
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