Before I ever heard of Garden Web: 8 pints apricot jam 6 pints apricot preserve 12 half-pints sour cherry jam 14 pints and 14 half-pints strawberry jam 8 pints raspberry jam After I found this discussion board: 3 pints mango chutney 5 pints plum chutney 4 pints plum sauce After I bought Christine Ferber's Book on August 31 and a whole new world opened up to me: 12 half-pints green tomato with cinnamon 24 half-pints blackberry chocolate orange jam 15 half-pints raspberry chocolate jam 15 half-pints Vanilla bosc pear jam with pine nuts and walnuts 12 half-pints peach jam with black rum 5 half-pints peach melba jam 4 pints mango lime marmelade 5 pints plum jam with anise 12 half-pints Anjou Pear jam with Thai spices 5 half-pints spiced peach jam 4 half-pints of rhubarb jam with honey and rosemary 4 half-pints of white nectarine jam with rosemary 5 half-pints of quince jam with ginger 6 half-pints bartlett pear with balsamic vinegar and spices I lay my obsession at the doorstep of anyone who ever mentioned Christine Ferber on this website. I haunt the Farmer's Market. I am trying to get my hands on crabapples even this late to try to make my own pectin. I have made my plans for all the jams I can make in the winter - after all, grapefruit, oranges, mangoes and coconut are never/always in season in Calgary. I bought new wooden spoons to be used only in jam making. I went to Williams Sonoma on my way home from a nasty root canal one day in September and found a hand hammered copper confiture pan, imported from France. I'd never seen such a thing before. It has style and substance. I was feeling mightily sorry for myself, and thus, it now belongs to me. Everyone I know is enabling me, because of course, they will be the recipients of all this bounty. Is there a 12 step program? Anyone?

Karen, Thank you for helping me look! I'm looking it up right now, and... argh! It is so close! 'Elizabeth Francis Woodall' has black tips on the stamens while mine seem a brownish/orange and a EFW has a very light yellow edging to the ruffles. The rest of the coloring is dead on. Going to check out 'Broadway Pink Slippers' and... that is much pinker than mine. Thank you for the name of that daylily nursery. I'll keep looking through their dl's. What a great assortment! Alana, I love baby shops. When Gymboree opened here I was having a blast picking up little outfits for my daughter and niece. Love that girly stuff. I hope things go quickly for you in Dayhoit. Never heard of it either. Thanks be for Google, eh? It has helped me get in and out of places that were too small for most gas station maps. Hurry home and keep an eye on these thieves. Hey Vic! We have rentals here in Cleveland and Lakewood. One is our old house that we used to live in. The guys are usually late with the check and it takes a phone call or two. Once they switched to new cell phones and I did have to drive over there. Nothing like me showing up with a van full of kids to make them want to get that check there a little quicker. Want me to drive to Michigan. Shouldn't be more than a couple hours. I'll threaten them with having to babysit. That might do it. I'm sorry about what happened with Jamie's job. Ed's customers are pretty slow paying right now. I told him he better start getting some money up front. It drives me crazy when he floats the cost of materials and they take forever to pay him at the end of the job. He is finally starting to listen to me about it. Deb, I think no one wants the game to end. They all know it's over when your box gets grabbed. LOL! Does the garage sale start tomorrow? I hope you have a great turn out and the weather stays beautiful for it. Sweet Dreams! Nighty night Sassy, sweet dreams to you too.

Hi ya_think. We started getting a clue around the end of the year and confirmed probably in February??? Going in we knew it was a new product and there was some risk that changes could happen to the design. For us the combination of the french doors, IR broiler, capacity, and design were worth the wait. We looked all of the usual suspects but found that the none offered the right mix of features for us. We also wanted a more simple, traditional look so the Wolf rotating control panel for example was a little too space ship looking for our taste. I think there may have been some issues with the double oven config during the whole gov't testing/approval process that led them to go with the stacking approach, at least that is what our retailer told us. Obviously we are fine on width but two stacked units will be about 6 inches taller than the original double. As a result we are having our kitchen guy come out to decide if we are going to lose a drawer/shelf or just have that cabinet rebuilt. That cabinet is mostly air anyway so we are not losing too much sleep over it. We expect that no changes are needed on the gas hookup or electric. Ovens showed up today and are in my garage! As soon as we get them hooked up I'll be sure to post some photos and share my experiences. You will notice that the photos on the BS site are updated now with the *real* ones.

That quilt is amazing, the angled/turning/depth perspective must have been so hard to translate into blocks of fabric, my gosh! I am completely impressed. And the butterflies add such a shot of color and whimsy and interest, WOW! I wish I could go to Houston Quilt Market. I went once, years ago, with the shop owner that I worked for, it was so fun to see all the new things available, fabrics and pattern, accessories and the quilts, just amazing. I remember- it was the year "Warm and Natural" debuted. lol Been awhile, huh?