Let a Woman Learn

• A Grand Re-Opening of My Seven Pillars Book Nook

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  Do you enjoy reading and sharing good literature, "Living Books", with your children? Do you want to purchase good books to read to your children? Do you collect vintage, antique books?
  
  Please, visit my Seven Pillars Book Nook blog to look around at Vintage Collectible Lovely Treasures and Books [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:41pm EST
  by DJ

• Evening Landscapes

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  Softly the evening came. The sun from the horizon
  Like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape;
  Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and earth and forest
  Seemed all on fire at the touch and melted and mingled together.
  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
  from Evangeline
  Thomas Worthington Whittredge "Twilight Landscape"
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:57pm EST
  by DJ

• Grammar Help - "Affect" Versus "Effect"

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  I always squirm and have to think about it because I just can't remember the correct use of these two words BUT I've found some thing that I think will help me. Grammar Girl has a mnemonic help for understanding and keeping them straight: "Affect" Versus "Effect"
  
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:46pm EST
  by DJ

• Two New Kinds of Apples - Honey Crisp & Candy Crisp

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  I have been wanting to find Honey Crisp apples for a couple of years now and finally was able to find them locally. They are fairly new, at least in our area.
  
  Honey Crisp
  Juicy, mostly sweet, some tart flavor
  Uses: eating fresh, in salads, baking --- this apple [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:41pm EST
  by DJ

• S510 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

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  Read the S510 bill . Watch the Senate Hearing Committee live -- around 70 minutes mark they discuss farmers markets, small local and organic farm and how it will affect them.
  
  Read more from the Farm-to-Consumer Defense Fund:
  
  
  
  Senate Food [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:09pm EST
  by DJ

• "A great painter is at work...."

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  "Think what a change, unperceived by many, has within a month come over the landscape! Then the general, the universal, hue was green. Now see those brilliant scarlet and glowing yellow trees in the low lands a mile off! I see them, too, here and there on the sides of" [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:54pm EST
  by DJ