Archive Category: 'Reference & Notes'

• Tipnut’s Thanksgiving Helpers: Here’s the latest addition to Tipnut: Tipnut’s Thanksgiving Helpers I’m filling the site with recipes, cooking tips, turkey how to’s, Thanksgiving crafts and decorations, and a whole bunch more. Lots of great stuff online that I want to include and share with you. There are five main categories: Crafts Recipes Tips Turkey Videos A few recipes are uploaded so far, including leftover ideas [...]
• 15 Amazing Ways to Tie Your Sneakers: Today’s feature is from Hourlylaff with 15 Amazing Ways to Tie Your Sneakers. Both graphics and instructions are included. Learn how to tie your laces in the following styles: Ladder Zipper Double Back Loop Back Bushwalk Sawtooth Footbag Display Hash Twistie Hidden Knot Riding Bow Checkerboard Lattice Bi-Color I had no idea you could tie your shoes in so many different ways! Please visit the site above for all the instructions.
• Stop Telemarketing Calls: Tired of telemarketing calls? Here are a few resources to get your name on a Do Not Call list both for the U.S. and Canada. For U.S. Households: National Do Not Call Registry: The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call [...]
• Pulse Rate Chart: Resting Heart Rate Age Beats Per Minute (BPM) Babies to age 1: 100–160 Children ages 1 to 10: 60–140 Children age 10+ and adults: 60–100 Well-conditioned athletes: 40–60 *In general, the lower your resting heart rate, the more efficient your heart is and the healthier you are. Target Heart Rate During Exercise Age (years) Minimum–maximum heart rate (bpm) 15 123–164 20 120–160 25 117–156 30 114–152 35 111–148 40 108–144 45 105–140 50 102–136 55 99–132 60 96–128 65 93–124 70 90–120 75 87–116 Formula: 60% – 80% of Maximum heart rate (220) – Age Check pulse [...]
• Free Tool: International Phone Call Help: Today’s feature is a handy online tool from CountryCodes.com. No matter where you are in the world, you can quickly figure out what numbers you need to dial when placing a call. How It Works: Submit the country you’re calling from, what country you’re calling to, and the tool will tell you the sequence of numbers to [...]
• Fabric Burn Test Chart: Today’s feature is from Ditzy Prints with a full page chart for unknown fabric testing–Fiber Burn Chart: To identify the fibers in an unknown piece of fabric, cut off a snippet — it’s best if it’s about 1″ long and a triangle at most 1/4″ wide (try to cut from one of the already cut ends [...]
• Old Wash Day Recipe: Variations of this ‘recipe’ handed down from a grandmother to her granddaughter on her wedding day has circulated around the net for years. Snopes declares this was making rounds well before the internet as “xeroxlore”. Whether it truly written by a grandmother to her granddaughter we’ll probably never know. But it is quite charming [...]
• My Kitchen: My Kitchen Please stay away from my kitchen, From my dishwashing, cooking and such. You were kind to have offered to help me, And I do want to thank you so much. I hope you won’t think me ungracious When I ask that you leave me alone, For my kitchen is not very spacious And my system is strictly my own. So please stay [...]
• Recipe For A Happy Day: Recipe For A Happy Day 1 cup friendly words 2 cups (heaping) understanding 4 tsp (heaping) time and patience Pinch of warm personality Dash of humor Method for Mixing: Measure words carefully. Add heaping cups of understanding. Use generous amounts of time and patience. Keep temperatures low. Do not boil. Add dash of humor and a pinch of warm personality. Season to taste with a spice of [...]
• Recipe For A Happy Home: To one half cup of friendship - Add a cup of thoughtfulness, Cream together with a Pinch of powdered tenderness (very lightly beaten) In a bowl of loyalty With a cup of faith, one of hope and one of charity. Be sure to add a spoonful each of gaiety that sings And also the ability to laugh at little things Moisten with the [...]
• Recipe For Preserving Children: 1 grass grown field, one half dozen children (or more), several dogs (and puppies if in season), 1 brook, pebbles. Method: Into field pour children and dogs allowing to mix well. Pour brook over pebbles till slightly frothy. When children are nicely brown, cool in warm tub, when dry, serve with milk, fresh baked bread and [...]
• A Vintage Recipe Story: You’ll find this popular recipe story in a variety of old cookbooks. That Johnny, he’s a busy boy! How To Bake A Cake Heat oven. Grease pan. Crack nuts. Get your bowl, spoons and ingredients. Remove 18 blocks and 7 toy automobiles from kitchen table. Measure 2 cups flour onto piece of waxed paper. Get sifter out [...]
• Recipe for Living: Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, rest (leaving this out is like leaving oil out of the salad — don’t do it), prayer, mediation and one well selected resolution. Put in about a teaspoonful [...]
• How to Tie the 10 Most Useful Knots: Today’s feature is a useful reference from Mother Earth News with their chart outlining How to Tie the 10 Most Useful Knots. The knots covered are: Overhand Knot Figure-eight Knot Reef (Square) Knot Sheet (Becket) Bend Carrick Bend Bowline Clove Hitch Timber Hitch Taut-line Hitch Sheepshank There’s also an article with more information: How to Tie the 10 Most Useful Knots. This information was originally published in [...]
• Visiting A Farm This Summer?: This article was published in the Kitchen-Klatter magazine, September, 1952. Take Your Time Going, But Hurry Back Ten ways guests have made this hostess happy: By either arising when we do, or getting their own breakfast later on when we are in the midst of morning chores. By going to bed at a fairly early hour so that we [...]
• Fishing Weather Poem: When the wind is in the East, ‘Tis neither good for man or beast; When the wind is in the north, The skillful fisher goes not forth; When the wind is in the south, It blows the bait in the fishes’ mouth; When the wind is in the west, Then it’s at the very best. Author Unknown
• Ten Commandments of Human Relations: Speak To People — there is nothing so nice as a cheerful word of greeting. Smile At People — it takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile. Call People — the sweetest music to anyone’s ears is the sound of his own name. Be Friendly and helpful, if you would have friends, be a friend. Be Cordial [...]
• Recipe Ingredient Substitutions & Equivalents Chart: Continuing with last week’s first attempt at providing a series of free downloadable kitchen charts, here is one for recipe ingredient substitutions. Ingredient substitutions are mainly used when baking or cooking dishes and you realize at the last minute you’re out of stock of the necessary food item. There may be a taste or texture change [...]
• Kitchen Measurements Equivalent Conversion Chart: Here is a printable copy of a recipe measurements equivalent and conversions chart that I designed to have at my fingertips when baking and cooking in the kitchen. There are Liquid Measures equivalents, Dry Measures, U.S. to Canadian, Recipe Abbreviations, Oven Temperatures, Fahrenheit to Celsius oven temps, and a bit more. Some of the numbers were [...]
• More Or Less: I found this in an old cookbook: More Or Less Go Less – Sleep More Ride Less – Walk More Talk Less – Think More Scold Less – Praise More Waste Less – Give More Eat Less – Chew More Clothe Less – Bathe More Idle Less – Play More Worry Less – Laugh More Preach Less – Practice More
• Math Connections: I chose Dewey’s Treehouse for today’s feature blog with their tip: Cookie Connections One of the most interesting arithmetic concepts–that my teachers somehow forgot to point out in school until we did algebra–is that multiplication, division, and fractions are all interchangeable. Connected. Once you understand this, arithmetic gets so much easier. Although math has never been a [...]
• Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Country Living: Some time ago I came across mention of a woman named Carla Emery who was a real advocate for self-sustained living and homesteading (see her website’s about page here CarlaEmery.com). I decided to buy her book: The Encyclopedia of Country Living and when it arrived from Amazon, I couldn’t believe the treasure I stumbled on. This [...]
• A Shelf Of Bright Plates: This article is found in the Kitchen-Klatter Magazine, August, 1952 A SHELF OF BRIGHT PLATES By Alice Hoey Shaffer When my new house was being built, I had the carpenter put a narrow shelf over the low window above the kitchen sink, with a skirt board below to protect the curtains. A few days after I had moved in, [...]
• Did You Know: How To Find Toll Free Numbers: You can call 1-800-555-1212 and speak to an operator for toll free listings. You can also try an online directory: U.S. National Toll Free Directory: Search by both keywords or business name. Canada Toll Free Directory: You can search by business name or by keywords (for example: Hotel)
• Lightning, Thunder & The 30-30 Rule: You can determine how close lightning struck to where you are by counting in seconds after you see lightning until you hear thunder. Divide by 5 for miles, divide by 3 for kilometers. For Example: You see lightning You count 12 seconds and then you hear thunder The lightning struck and the storm is approximately 4 kilometers or 2.4 [...]