Maddie, My tractor mower has headlights. Mine is an old one I bought for $300 - mows great, has four speeds, plus revearse, and has headlights. :) I tend to get cracked heals, too, and cracked fingers and they are painful. I use a dremel to sand off the thick calluses and then I apply bag balm. At night, I put socks on afterward when are very cracked & sore. Works great, gets rid of the stains and helps them heal. Bag balm has a natural anti-biotic in it that helps heal cuts and sores, too. Great for cat scratches. When I was a Vet-tech years back, I used it on the animals feet or sores or when they bit or scratched me. I found that it helped prevent my feet from cracking, because of the emolients in it. Put the bag balm, rub in well, then don your latex gloves or other gloves. In winter, I put on latec gloves then my winter gloves to keep my hands dry and warm. I love to "play in the dirt", go barefoot and garden till I am grubby, but I can't stand to be dirty and wet afterwards, for some reason. I am constantly rinsing off my feet and hands with the garden hose, which of course, tends to make my feet dry out and crack even more. The calluses get so thick that they crack and it really hurts. It also cripples me if I don't keep them sanded off with the dremel. I don't like that. But wearing shoes causes my ankles to swell, so it is either men's sandles, Flip-flops (we used to call them thongs), of I go barefooted. I do have a pair of men's Adidas slides, but they are size 12 - just twice my shoes size, but I wear them. I look like a Hobbit in those! I am a dust magnet and always have things caught in my hair - twigs, bits of grit, flowers, leaves, bugs. Believe me, I am not a "priss", but I like to look nice when I go somewhere. Once a week I work my feet over really well. I cannot go to bed with dirty, craggy feet. Grosses me out! I also paint my nails from time to time. (doesn't last too long, but I like it and it makes me feel pretty). Gotta go put up my chickens. It is thundering and about to storm. Zooks! Love this thread! Keep it going! ~ SweetAnnie4u

jt, kitchencrafts has a variety of more upscale moulds, but I can't testify to any from experience (I make juice pops for my nieces & nephews in summer with cheap ones from the dollar store, which are definitely imperfect; if I had my own kids & did it more often I would upgrade, for sure!). I don't know anything about dipping chocolate, but I had an idea that you might be able to get around it: how about rolling the finished ice-cream pops in mini-chocolate chips instead? you could kind of press them in. I have made ice-cream sandwiches with cookie outsides and slightly softened ice cream pressed between and rolled the edges in mini-chips this way, and while some fell off and it never looked as beautiful as the picture in _Canadian Living_ where I got the recipe (surprise, surprise), it worked well enough and tasted great! Mini-M&M's are another possibility, and might add a nice little crunch effect. The advantage of mini-choc chips over melt-able chocolates designed to be a coating is that you will get a better chocolate taste, I expect. Most of those chocolate casings are pretty mediocre chocolate, I expect because of everything they have to get The Science Guy to do to it to make it stick to the ice cream. Just a thought! I'm glad I looked at this thread. I just bought some hot-chile-flavoured chocolate bark for one of my "briderini" (as they called themselves since I couldn't quite see myself as having "maids" of any kind). Z

this is from the GardenWeb terms of service. Basically if you upload to their servers your content is fair game. "By submitting content, which shall include your member name, to any "public area" of the GardenWeb Network, including, but not limited to, the forums and your personal website, exchange page and journal, you grant iVillage a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, sublicense, assign, derive revenue or other remuneration from, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such content. If you are not the creator of such content, you also warrant that the holder of any Rights, including moral rights in such content, has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated above. You also permit any visitor or member to access, display, view, store and reproduce such content solely for personal, noncommercial use" from photobuckets TOS "When you make your Content public, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to copy, distribute, stream, post publicly display (e.g. post it elsewhere), reproduce and create derivative works from it (meaning things based on it), anywhere, whether in print or any kind of electronic version that exists now or is later developed, for any purpose, including a commercial purpose." Most other website that allow uploading of content have the same TOS. Now if you own the Server and the website then you have a bit more "rights" When i share a photo I realize that now it is public and could be taken and used elsewhere. That is why I would suggest everyone watermark you photos. mike

I was terribly tempted by this too but hesitated when I saw the price. But that's a one-time expense and if you can use it over and over through the years, it might be worth it. But then, does it really work? Does it really grow good-looking healthy plants that produce? I'd love to have fresh salad greens in the winter. Is this thing too small for more that just herbs? Seems like, if it can grow a big ole tomato plant... but hsc4 said herbs were much better. Does that mean the tomatoes didn't do too well? Anybody else tried one of these Aerogardens?