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Growing Bountiful Blueberries

Growing Bountiful Blueberries

Blueberries are high in vitamin C and are very versatile; they make great pies, preserves, juice, or can be eaten right from the bush. Blueberries are among the easiest berries to grow, but soil preparation is crucial to a good crop. They grow best in sandy, well-drained soil rich in organic material with a pH level between 4.0 and 5.2. Soil should be prepared well in advance, at least two weeks before planting your bushes, but some say that preparing the season before is best.

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Washing, Drying, and Storing Knitted Items

Washing, Drying, and Storing Knitted Items

Throughout the 90s, grunge rock was the music of choice for teenagers all across America. Having grown up in the 60s, I was never much of a fan; however, I do remember those stretched and misshapen sweaters, which all the kids were wearing – both the rockers themselves and their devoted fans. These days you can buy sweaters just like that, but the original grunge style came about by accident – or rather, through negligence.

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Natural Remedies for Gout

Natural Remedies for Gout

Gout – also called metabolic arthritis – is a type of arthritis caused by the build up of uric acid in the blood. This excess uric acid causes monosodium urate crystals (or uric acid crystals) to form on the cartilage of the joints and tendons and their surrounding tissues. These joint crystals are needle shaped and cause sudden, excruciating, burning pain along with swelling, warmth, redness, and stiffness in the affected joints. One with gout may also have shiny purple skin around their joints.

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Delicious Thanksgiving Alternatives

Delicious Thanksgiving Alternatives

While a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, and gravy can be quite delicious, sometimes I have a hankering for something a little different, not to mention a little less pricey. Both of these ideas are great alternatives if you are looking for a delicious meal to feed your family during the holiday season.

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Composting in Winter

Composting in Winter

In the northern hemisphere, November sprawls across the border of autumn and winter like a damp gray blanket. While the eleventh month brings a few pleasant days to us in North Carolina, it also carries stretches of time burdened by chilly winds and cold rains. It's enough to make an old fellow want to pull the comforter up to his furry chin and stay in bed to ride out the whole sloppy mess. Bats, bears, hedgehogs, squirrels, chipmunks, and a host of other critters are either...

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Cancel the Cable and Watch TV Online for Less

Cancel the Cable and Watch TV Online for Less

I'm just as guilty as you are. I swore I was giving up TV for good … it's all trash anyway… but I still had shows I wanted to watch! Unfortunately, my cable TV costs were breaking the bank. Something had to give, and it wasn't going to be my bottom line. Fortunately, it turns out that there are many ways to watch TV online for much less than you'll pay for a regular cable subscription.

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Sharia Law in America- It’s Not Fiction

Sharia Law in America- It’s Not Fiction

A few months ago, I wrote about the creeping advance of Sharia Law into the Western world. Responses to that article ran the gamut—everything from affirmation to claiming I didn’t know what I was talking about to suggesting I might be a child of Adolph Hitler. What sparked this discussion was my brief review of a series of speculative novels that imagine a world 500 years in the future ruled by something akin to Sharia Law.

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Cultivating an Alternative Energy State of Mind

Cultivating an Alternative Energy State of Mind

A decision to move off the grid means profound changes are coming. But many people do not realize what an incredible opportunity for change the off-the-grid lifestyle really represents. This is because most people do not truly understand how deeply co-opted and colonized they have become after living for so long under the camouflaged thumb of a system that comprehensively oppresses our instincts for independence and self-reliance.

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The Amazing History Of The King James Bible

The Amazing History Of The King James Bible

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Authorized Version of Scripture, the King James Bible. Of course, King James Stuart of England didn’t do the translating. He did, however, arrange for one of the most skilled, educated group of translators ever assembled to translate the Old and New Testaments from the Hebrew and Greek. This translation project had been suggested by Puritan leaders, together with a number of other reforms, but James acted only on this one. His motives for ordering and ...

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How Safe is Your E-mail?

How Safe is Your E-mail?

While e-mail may be the new snail mail to the iPhone generation, the fact is that it is the most-used conduit for communication in our world today. E-mails routinely contain business deal discussions, social security numbers, bank account information, and ...

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