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70Sunday School Lesson for Purim
The Bible story of Esther has many positives for children: a female heroine, a wedding, kings and queens, party food, raucous noise, and an ending with the good guys winning. It can be used during any unit on the Bible, the Old Testament, and in Vacation Bible School.
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67Lightning Bugs, Fireflies, and Fire Bees
There was never a time I did not know about lightning bugs. They were as much a part of summer as were heat, plastic wading pools, and Popsicles. Lightning bugs were nature's sparklers for kids - safe,...
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75Funny Adventures in Cat Adoption, Part 14 – Halloween Cat Costumes
The local pet store is holding a Halloween Dog and Cat Costume Contest. My three cats can't tolerate being taken to a strange store confined in crates and costumes. However, i had great fun making them costumes for a photo shoot at home. Skeeter, the Goddess, and Sammy all cooperated - amazing!
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72Funny “Red Green” Style Laptop Computer Cooler
Red Green, Canadian Handyman, is a man who knows the value of duct tape. Such is his genius that there is no equipment problem which he CANNOT fix with duct tape. In his spirit, I lightheartedly offer my Red Green style laptop computer cooler.
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69“Be Blonde” Media Pressure
Boomer-age females in the USA were subjected to constant messages that the “best” hair color for a female is blonde. Research on the message in the 1950s and 60s and its sources. Apparently. Clairol's marketing changed the hair fashion world as we know it!
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68How to make a photo smaller with Microsoft PAINT
When the absolutely only change I need to make to a photo is to reduce its size, I go with a pre-loaded program that came with Microsoft Windows. It is called Paint. It easily takes those too-big pix from your digital camera and makes them a size usable for websites such as craigslist and for attaching to emails.
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68Funny Adventures in Cat Adoption, Part Two
Hilarious account of what we did and didn’t do (but should have) when a five-pound bundle of fluff dropped into our lives. Teensy tabby kitten Skeeter showing a brief reflective moment. Our family includes three cats. The original one, whom we...
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717 Mistakes to AVOID when Harvesting and Roasting Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower seeds. This is the NOT-TO-DO guide for a newbie’s leap into sunflower food production. Whether for birds or humans, you want seeds which look like the ones you formerly purchased at the grocery or the feed store. Now that you are a sunflower gardener, do not be impatient or cut corners. Here are 7 mistakes to avoid.
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70Winter Decorations for “More than Christmas” Holidays
How we can sneak other cultures’ winter holiday symbols into a few pockets of American Middle-Class-Protestant-Mainstream-White-Bread-Land.
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79Movie The Artist: Fantastic 1920s Sets, Costumes, and Hairstyles
Due to its garnering of Golden Globe Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Original Score awards, The Artist has returned. Now, you can see it in mainstream movie theaters. As I watched it, I was thrilled at the level of attention to detail in scenery, costumes, and hairstyles to re-create California in the late 1920’s and early ‘30’s.
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