Thank you, Marla. I probably did that -- they were pretty dirty and muddy because it had rained just prior to picking -- and I used a vegetable brush! ha ha. I'll go purchase a bundle of dill at our local produce store and go for it anyway. And I will use the scant 1/4 teaspoon (or whatever it is) of Pickle Crisp. I haven't made Dill Pickles in eons, and so I'm doing the easy way and using Mrs. Wages or Ball or whatever I purchased. I'll make up some Bread & Butters (with Walla Walla onions -- my last of the season) and bell peppers. Always a favorite. I think we can let this message die of natural causes now -- unless someone has some dire warning to me!

Tell your friend to go to the Laundry Room. You can find it here at the Garden Web under Home Forums. If you think people here get into heated arguments about hostas- you ain't seen nothing yet! Caliloo (Alexa) told me about it once. You can learn about anything laundry as well as whether top loaders are better than front loaders. There was an ongoing argument about the merits of both. I think it had at least 100 comments. I can't remember the last time I laughed that loud! Teresa Here is a link that might be useful: Laundry Room

"Removable" stickers use pressure sensitive adhesives rather than solvent based adhesives and are difficult to remove with many common solvents especially if the solvents evaporate rapidly. It is troubling to realize how many solvents are sold for home use and how trusting people are about having these products stored in their homes in enclosed unventilated spaces near rags and other combustible materials much less using them without skin and eye protection. We have apparently become a nation of people who can't believe a potentially harmful substance would be sold in a grocery store and/or advertised for home use and therefore we don't read the caution labels. Goo Gone is made of petroleum naphthas and citrus oil and is highly flammable as well as being a skin, eye and respiratory irritant. Scrubbing Bubbles is made of a combination of solvents: n-Alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, n-Alkyl ethylbenzil ammonimum chloride, Diethylene glycol butyl ether and Isobutane (Isobutane is used in cigarette lighters and camp stoves). It is flammable and a skin, eye and respiratory irritant. It is intended for unattended use in a residential shower, just push the button and leave it. What does the term "corneal injury" do for you? If you Google "sticker remove vegetable oil" you will find that it (and baby oil, etc.) works as well as anything else and is not a danger to anyone and doesn't require special storage or clean up precautions. I grant you it's not interesting enough to make the Martha Stewart show.

As Bob shared the Forum previously was more strict than it is today, and we have no active moderator so we have to monitor ourselves. If we fail to keep postings on-topic over time the Forum would become diluted, or could become more of a social site. This is one of the reasons the separate Conversations side was created some years back. Our continuing effort to stay on-topic goes hand-in-hand with other accepted ideals as to participation; i.e. to avoid chat room formats by keeping information together on an existing thread rather than starting a new thread with additional input, and not hijacking a thread into a different direction. Though admittedly at times a thread does take on a life of its own. I am a member of a couple of computer help forums where the off-topic area is more active than the computer dedicated area. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that as I do like stopping in on occasion and sharing a few moments, but if you lumped both together the computer help would suffer, and that is why we are here. DA