Some people would see a bag a beans and others would see a bag of SEEDS. lol My kids taped zip lock bags with beans and a moist paper towel in them to a window at school for an experiment. It's a good way to see how the roots grow. Are you planting beans NOW? I haven't done a lot of veggie gardening but I would think that it's too late in the year for those. Good practice for next summer though if it is. I've been planting more and more edibles and just scatter them around the yard since I don't have a traditional vegetable garden. I've saved seeds from store bought melons several times to grow. Sometimes our grocery store will have unusual melons like casaba, canary or Christmas melons and it's a good way to give them a try without spending much. Do you have a special recipe for 15 bean soup or is it the ones that come with a seasoning packet in the bag?

My Morrissey experience is with older songs. I think his best are: Late Night Maudlin Street, Every Day is Like Sunday, Suedehead, Trouble Loves Me, Will Never Marry, and his remake of Moon River. Of course, there are lots of songs from his days with the Smiths, but my favorites are: There is a Light That Never Goes Out; Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me; Half a Person; This Night Has Opened My Eyes; and Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want. Those last three I learned on guitar a long time ago and I still enjoy singing them. My kids, of course, think that's a little weird!

Hi everyone, I am soooo proud of myself. I sewed a super hero costume today for the little GD. Just need to measure her waist to cut and insert the elastic in the waist and check the length before I hem the legs. It wasn't easy--my machine decided to act up on me and skip stitches. Two trips to the repair shop and it's now running like new. My little GD drew me a picture of what she wanted and I found a pajama pattern on sale that I adapted to make the costume. (Darn, I was shocked at the price of patterns now! Can tell I haven't sewn in years!) I am so keeping my fingers crossed that it will fit right and is what she wanted! Anj, thanks so much for the two sites. I loved seeing Marie's painting. I have allot of patterns similar to the ones she does. Loved the metal wastepan and the lunch boxes. She showed pictures of her shop, and it looks so neat. Can you believe she says all her lettering is not traced or stenciled--just done with her brush! Fantastic! I had watched a couple of Youtube videos about that program on the other site--supposedly you can use the Surecutsalot program for $75 and you can use any fonts from your computer and can even download pictures to cut out on the Cricut. That site offers $10 off so that would be a good deal. I may decide to try it after I learn how to do things on my machine. Did I tell you that I got it for only $84.99 on sale at Joanne's? I really think the small one will do all that I will need. DH says I can't open it until my birthday! ;o( I can hardly wait. I decided to not try to paint the letters on the blocks I have ready--I'll use them for my first project using the Cricut. Now I'll be searching for the best prices on scrapbooking papers and craft vinyl and more cartridges --one purchase leads to another and another and another! LOL I think your grocery savings is fantastic, Anj! Wow! I know my DIL followed some forum on the Internet for awhile and was stockpiling and saving all kinds of money on items. She said keeping track of what coupons she had on hand was the hardest part and she isn't doing it quite as faithfully now. I've always heard that if you could build your weekly menus using the specials from the store ads, you could save. Sounds like you have the best of both things going for you. ;o) Belle, I'm so sorry you feel like a pin cushion! Guess it's sometimes a process of elimination trying to figure out what is going on. So glad the boys came over and got your yard in shape. I'm sure they had a good time doing it together and laughing and chatting--and gulping down your yummy cookies! ;o) Punk, doesn't it feel good to get things cleared out and organized? I have such a hard time parting with things for fear I'll wish I had them later. I've enjoyed seeing your tables--so nice your kids are gifting you with dishes to "play" with. ;o) What kinds of things are you looking forward to painting? Anything for Easter? I need to check the other forum and then get to bed. Hope you are all enjoying the weekend. Luvs

Everyone gave themselves great gifts!!!! I broke down and progressed to a Smart phone. We've always had a flip phone as we use a cell so seldom, it was all we needed. Bought it when there was a No Tax day, so saved 13% right off the bat. Trouble is, I'm intimidated as heck by it!! When I get a new laptop I can't wait to fire it up and get going, but this cell phone? I don't know what the heck I'm doing, so it's just sitting there. I need to find someone who'll walk me through it. It's an Android and one of the things I did was register my Gmail address. Mistake. I never ever use it, it's just an email address to register at websites. And of course, you can't sign out of it, because Google is Android. Grrrr. That's one major thing that upsets me. So the phone is just sitting on the table as a paperweight. Hubby and I were out shopping and a scarf caught my eye and he bought it. I also saw some earrings on Kijiji (new) and sent him the link. He got the hint LOL