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Posted on 01/16/2006 6:56:15 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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I have "I Got You, Babe" stuck in my head now.
Great.
Let's start the day over, shall we?
Rise and shine woodchuck chuckers! And don't forget your booties, cuz it's coooooooooold outside!
*groan*
You want my pumpkin bread recipe? Or do you have a family one? Mine is fabulous and makes 4 loaves (smallish loaves, not full-size bread loaves, but not the tiny loaves either. My foil pans are 3 and a fourth by 7 and a fourth inches.)
I make it and keep it frozen in Rudolph.
And I have the "Pennsylvania Polka" stuck in mine. :-\
I only have one bread pan...would it halve easily and fit in that?
I was just going to look around until I found I recipe that wouldn't require buying extra ingredients - trying not to purchase anything this close to leaving.
Naw, it's a hugh recipe. It's my Christmas pumpkin bread recipe and it makes a lot. Calls for something like 4 cups of flour, 3 cups of sugar...heh heh!
It's good though. It's what the trash guy got and the mail lady!
I'm sure I can find something good if I Google. Lately I end up doing that more than using recipe books.
And my recipe books are all packed up anyhow...
I almost always go to allrecipes.com first thing. I can usually find a good recipe there. Another interesting site for more 'gourmet' recipes is epicurious.com.
I've used those...need to bookmark 'em!
I've also gotten some good recipes from cooks.com, but it's not a very organized site and has pop-ups, as I recall.
Gonna continue putting boxes in the van today...that way I can see what is going to have to be mailed. Wish I knew for sure what would be cheaper if I *do* mail stuff: USPS, Fedex, UPS... I guess if it's all books, USPS will likely be less, right?
Yeah, it's hard to beat the USPS book rate, but you could check web sites for the other companies.
(This is a screen grab not a live picture... It wouldn't let me hotlink....)
She's more than halfway there, then! Woo-hoo!
Yaa! More Mooting Action!
Mmm... mooting action...
Yeah - I better get busy here!
;-D
Yeah, the USPS has the 'media rate', so why not take one of the book boxes to a post office to get an idea of how much it will cost to send a box of books, then check the cost of shipping a lighter weight box through UPS? It may be cheaper to use UPS for some lighter weight boxes and take the heavier boxes in the van.
I used the rating thing on usps.com...some of my heavier book boxes will cost up to fifteen dollars each. I suppose it's cheaper than replacing 'em, but it adds up fast.
Ungh...wish the van hadn't needed so many repairs!
Guess I'll just hafta see how efficiently I can pack the van, for one.
Look at it this way, that extra weight in the back of the van, from all those books, will help keep it from sliding around on any slushy roads on the trip. ;o)
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