I'm lucky to live in a climate where I can have fresh herbs all year round, so I rarely dry them. But when I do, I simply spread them over a paper-towel-covered cake cooler and leave them on my dining table - which is near my back door, so it gets a good air-flow. It can take several days for some herbs to dry to crispy stage, so for the first couple of days I change the paper-towelling, which in the early stages can get very moist. You can also dry your herbs in the oven. Heat the oven to lowest possible temperature, spread the herbs onto a baking tray in a thin layer, and leave in the oven until the herbs are crispy-dry. It is important to leave the door of the oven ajar throughout (I use a thick oven-mitt to prevent the door closing), and to check the herbs and given them a stir, from time to time. Then there's the microwave oven. This can take a bit of practice. Place some paper-towelling (3-4 thicknesses) onto a suitable flat dish, cover it with herbs (piled up is OK), then zap for about 1 minute on HIGH. Check the herbs, and stir them around. Change paper towel if very wet. Repeat, reducing the time gradually between checking, until the herbs are nice and crispy-dry. Once they're out of the microwave, stir them around while the excess steam evaporates, to help them cool quickly. When quite cold and still crispy, bottle and seal (and date!). OR you can tie your herbs into small bundles and hang them in a cool, well-ventilated, dry place. OR you can put your bunches/herbs into a brown paper bag and hang the bag in a cool (etc) place. Pierce the bag in several places to make small holes for air-flow. This is a good way of keeping both dust and bugs off your drying herbs, and the bag prevents any bits and pieces dropping to the floor.

I am not getting these follow-up posts emailed to me even though i checked to have emails sent - so I didn't know there was more. I hope they keep supporting version 3 - since we have 5 xp computers between home and work. I do have FF4 on dd's laptop - but not quite sure how it's going for her. She said she didn't like it - and I offered to try above suggestions to make it appear more like she's familiar with. She wants me to in theory - but in reality never wants to hand over the computer to have me do it. When I have more leisure to try again, am I recalling correctly that I can have 2 firefoxes installed - one version 3, and one version 4? And I can use xmarks to sync bookmarks, etc. That way I can get used to ff4 - but go back to 3 for the times I need things to go smoothly and not tinker? Any special instructions for doing 2 firefoxes? Thank you. Lynn. PS - still wonder if anyone else if having the issue where responses don't get emailed to them. This happens now for all my posts the last month - on this and the cooking forum.

I am typically one of the people who encourage posters to improve their soil rather than importing. But it's obvious in this case, based on the volume stated, that it's not feasible unless you're a dedicated composting fanatic with heavy machinery and plenty of time. And that's just the soil fertility aspect, aside from the need for fill volume itself. 275 yds spread, say, 6" thick would cover a third of an acre. Ed's not making a few raised beds, folks. Whole different ballgame.

There are many Sloan's liniment bottles with labels on eBay, starting at $2.99, Sloan's Liniment There are 2 Annette's Perfect Cleansers there, one for $14.99 and the other for $18.25 of Best Offer. Annette's Perfect Cleanser