Garden: Starter Plants

Our garden this year is starting with 3 different varieties of tomatoes, peppers, beets, and lettuces. Besides that we've got leeks, basil, carrots, broccoli, peas, and several varieties of pole beans and bush beans.

I guess I'll post the pictures later since I inadvertently removed them from my phone and they are now on my laptop which is at home.

For our seed packet starters we used empty egg cartons, if you don't have these available then you can use empty toilet paper rolls.

We did get some starter planters that came in a round disk with the disks of compacted soil that expands with water. Some of these proved that they were determined to strive and quickly outgrew the expanded disk soil.

Pumpkin Pie from Pumpkin Butter

Pumpkin Pie

from Pumpkin Butter

Ingredients:

• 1 Pie Crust
• 1 Cup Evaporated Milk
• 2 Cups Pumpkin Butter
• 2 Eggs

Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In a mixing bowl whisk together the Evaporated Milk and the Eggs together.

Next add the Pumpkin Butter and whisk until evenly blended together. We make our own Pumpkin Butter but feel free to use store bought instead.

Next you will add your mixture to your Pie Shell. I used a store bought preformed Pie Shell but feel free to make your own from scratch.

Place into the oven and bake for 25 minutes, at this time the edges of the pie will start to turn golden brown. Feel free to leave the pie baking for several more minutes to getter a darker crust.

Simply let cool and serve. Very simple recipe.

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Take ChaCha for instance, you have to answer hundreds of questions in mere seconds for mere pennies. Even the Specialists have a difficult time earning any decent amount of pocket change from the low work to pay ratio.

Some websites such as Bing offer rewards that can go toward things such as Microsoft Points or Amazon Giftcards. While though all they really want you to do is use their search engine I have found that I prefer a couple other sites that offer better ratios by offering random payouts as these can often accumulate to be far more then what you'd otherwise earn through a fixed point amount (Bing Rewards).

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