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All of our lifes are so busy. Some times we need to remember that we need to have a little fun too.

Play a game, go for a walk, have a picnic, do something to spend time with the one you love.


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Vinegar a Number of Uses

Dampen your appetite.
Sprinkle a little vinegar on prepared food to take the edge off your appetite.

Soothe a bee or jellyfish sting. Dot or douce theirritated area with vinegar and relieve itching.Relieve itching by using a cotton ball to dabmosquito and other bug bites with Vinegar straightfrom the bottle.

Relieve sunburn by lightly rubbing it with vinegar. You may have to reapply.

Take 1 cup of vinegar and warm water into a large glass and use to rinse your hair after you shampoo. Vinegar adds highlights to brunettehair, restores the acid mantel, and removes soap film and sebum oil.

You take 1 tablespoon full and swollow when youhave the hiccups. It stops them instantly.

Relieve dry and itchy skin. Add 2 tablespoons to bath water.

Fight dandruff, by rinsing with vinegar and2 cups of warm water, after shampooing.

Soothe a sore throat. Put a teaspoon of vinegarin a glass of water. Gargle, then swallow.

Cure for colds. Mix one-quarter cup Apple CiderVinegar with one-quarter cup honey.Take one tablespoon six to eight times daily.

Check out this website for more uses for vinegar-

http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/homemaking/vinegar.html

Have a awesome day,

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Free Reads

If you are looking for some free reads. Why not check out the ones at Amira Press?

Here's the link.

http://www.amirapress.com

https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/0/free/any

Almost every book site has a free read area, just check them out.

Enjoy,

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Helpful Hint

For a Burn apply equal parts of white of egg and olive oil mixed together, then cover with a piece of old linen; if applied at once no blister will form. Or apply at once cooking soda, then cover with cloth and keep the same wet with cold water. This takes out the pain and prevents blistering.

Hope you don't have use this hint, but helpful if you do.

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Author Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz

BLURB: MIRROR, MIRROR 
Lindsey Baker is intrigued by everything about the middle ages, but when she purchases an antique mirror and a costume to attend a Renaissance Faire, she suddenly finds herself transported back in time.  There she finds she’s been called by a witch to right a terrible wrong. 


Graham loves Prudence, but he can’t marry her because he’s landed gentry, and she is only the baker’s daughter.  Before Lindsey can return to her own time, she must convince Graham to marry against his father’s wishes.  Unfortunately, she also finds herself falling for the handsome gentleman.


Can she find her way back to her own time, or will she be stuck in a time when women had no rights?


EXCERPT:  MIRROR, MIRROR


“Fool-born child!  Watch where you are walking. The master will have your hide for getting mud all over his clean shirts.” 
Someone pulled her ear—hard—and Lindsey yelped with pain.  She was tugged up into a kneeling, then standing position, before she opened her eyes.  She realized in the first moment she was no longer in Oregon.
“Where is your cap?  If the master sees you with your hair hanging down all over your face, he will switch us both.” 
She stared wide-eyed as a large, buxom woman bent down, picked up dirty white shirts from the ground, and thrust them into Lindsey’s arms.
“‘Tis not here. Take my extra one.”  The woman grabbed Lindsey’s hair, balled it, and shoved it into a long, sleeve-like cap, which came to Lindsey’s forehead and fell down around her shoulders.  Balancing the load of shirts with one hand, she felt the cap.  Not a shred of her hair was showing. 
“Um, thanks,” she said.
“Well, donna be thanking me now.  You just watch what you be doing next time, clumsy girl.  Now march back into the washhouse and get the mud off those shirts.  When you have finished, hang them out to dry. Then get you into the kitchen and help cook with dinner.”  The woman brushed her hands off; then she smoothed her apron and marched through a courtyard toward a large stone house.
Dumbfounded, Lindsey stood where the woman left her.  She looked down at herself and saw she still wore her second-hand clothes from St. Vincent de Paul’s.  Her feet were bare. Then she noticed the woman walking away from her was also barefooted.  Despite the muddy courtyard, the air was warm and so was the soil.  Butwhere am I?  As she looked around, the structure of the buildings reminded her of pictures from her British History course in college.
In the opposite direction from which the woman took, Lindsey noticed a path leading to a small outbuilding.  Smoke rose from a chimney.  She trudged back to the washhouse, opened the door but stepped back outside when her eyes began to tear, and the heat blasted her face.  Do people actually work under these conditions?  With the door opened, some of the smoke and steam cleared, and she was able to see a large wooden tub sitting on metal legs straddling hot coals. Lindsey dumped the load of shirts into the tub, picked up a stick and stirred the load in the water.  Before long, her muscles ached, and she had blisters on her hands. Once the tears began, there was no stopping them.  Until this point, she hadn’t thought much beyond putting one foot in front of the other.  She collapsed on a small overturned crate and with head in hands, had a good cry.
With red, puffy eyes, and stuffed nose, Lindsey looked up when the door opened.  A wizened old woman leaning on a cane shuffled in.  She looked at Lindsey with questioning eyes.  “Is it really you, Mistress?” she asked.
“What do you mean?  Who am I supposed to be?” Lindsey responded between sobs.
The old woman began to dance.  “It worked!  It worked!”
Lindsey wiped the tears from her eyes with the bottom of her skirt.  “What worked?” she asked, realizing this woman might know what happened.
“Why the summoning I did for Mistress Prudence.  So you’re the one, eh?”  The old woman pinched Lindsey’s cheek and turned Lindsey’s face from side to side to get a good look.  “Well you do look like the young Mistress.
When are you from, then?”
“You did say when, not where?”
“Of course.  I know you’re not from now, foolish simpkin.  I brung you here.”
“This morning it was 2011.  I’m not sure what year it is now.”
“‘Tis the year 1421, and you need to get busy, little missy.  You need to get the Master to accept Prudence as his bride.  Soon as you do, we can send you back from whence you came.”
Lindsey stood and looked down at the little woman. “Just how do you propose I do that?  Who is this master, anyway?”
“Why, he be the master of the house.  He loves our Prudence, he does, but his father wants him to marry for money.  He’s just distraught our Master is.  I wager you be a smart woman. You can get our Master to marry you. I canna help you anymore, but I’ll be watching you.”  The crone turned and shuffled toward the door.
Find out more about
Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz
plehrenkranz@gmail.com
pennylane97053@yahoo.com
http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.yolasite.com
http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.blogspot.com/
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MMI - Talk to Strangers

Hi everyone,

This weekend, I flew to Houston.
[image error] No, my arms aren't tired. I traveled on a plane and met some very interesting people.

Most of the time when I fly, I sit beside people who don't want to talk. That's okay.  But this time, I was blessed with people who wanted to share. Made some incredible contacts and the time on the plane went faster.

So next time you're some where and can talk to a stranger. Give it a go. You may discover a wonderful new person you didn't know.

Tina

Doing the Desert Thing

Check out my picture page and see some of the sights around Joshua Tree, CA.

It is a beautiful place, but you have to enjoy the desert. Some feel it is a waste land, but if you stop a moment and really look. There is life everywhere.

Have an awesome day,

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Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews: Love In Bloom - An Awakening - Tina Gayle

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Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews: Love In Bloom - An Awakening - Tina Gayle:


The Love In Bloom Extravaganza will feature an author a day from 3/30 - 5/16/12. Daily book give aways and a GRAND PRIZE of a Nook Touch or ...

Leave a comment for a chance to win.

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Taking the final exam - A Joke to brighten your day

Two college basketball players were taking an important final exam. If they failed, they would be on academic probation and not allowed to play in the big game the following week. The exam was fill-in-the-blank.
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The last question read, "Old MacDonald had a ________."

Bubba was stumped. He had no idea what to answer. But he knew he needed to get this one right to be sure he passed.

Making sure the professor wasn't watching, he tapped Tiny on the shoulder. "Pssst. Tiny. What's the answer to the last question?"

Tiny laughed. He looked around to make sure the professor hadn't noticed then he turned to Bubba. "Bubba, you're so stupid. Everyone knows Old MacDonald had a FARM."

"Oh yeah," said Bubba. "I remember now."

He picked up his No. 2 pencil and started to write the answer in the blank. He stopped. Tapping Tiny's shoulder again, he whispered, "Tiny, how do you spell farm?"

"You are really dumb, Bubba. That's so easy. Farm is spelled E-I-E-I-O."

If you want to read more jokes check out
http://www.ahajokes.com/

Have a great day,

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MMI - Fun

[image error] People rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it.

Have a great week and have some fun,

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