Chicago Houses Pictures

An amazingly large 5 bedroom home in the city of Chicago. House comes equipped with a LARGE living room, seperate dining room, kitchen, 5 bedrooms, finished basement, hardwood flooring throughout, large deck equipped with a commercial grill, and a 2.5 car garage. A MUST SEE! Rent or Sale price is negotiable. Call or email NOW for a showing as this treasure wont last long.

• Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Date Posted: March 6
• Price: $2,200

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Chicago Houses Pictures

An amazingly large 5 bedroom home in the city of Chicago. House comes equipped with a LARGE living room, seperate dining room, kitchen, 5 bedrooms, finished basement, hardwood flooring throughout, large deck equipped with a commercial grill, and a 2.5 car garage. A MUST SEE! Rent or Sale price is negotiable. Call or email NOW for a showing as this treasure wont last long.

• Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Date Posted: March 6
• Price: $2,200

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Love those old cookbooks

I love old cookbooks produced and sold by churches and civic groups as fundraisers. I have a number of them and frankly, I don't think I could have enough. I can understand why people collect and treasure them.

Today I was in a second-hand shop in Newnan, What's in Store, and found this cookbook for $3.00. I snatched it up in a hurry. I think this one was so unusual because it is all hand-printed, presumably by the person who submitted the recipe.

There is also a section of peanut recipes, as you might expect from a Plains, Georgia publication. Peanuts are this farming area's biggest crop and there is also a section for the Carter family, the regions most famous residents.

The recipes are old, southern favorites, just as I would expect. Really I thought the recipes were really good for a 1977 publication.

I immediately liked the pickle and relish recipes included in this cookbook.

I also liked the cornbread and Hoecake recipes -- and don't you trust Floy Bagwell to be a great cook? I do. Just her name makes this recipe promising to me.


I know I will be making relish with the peppers from my garden this summer and the recipe above. It looks like a great recipe. There are quite a few vegetable recipes in this cookbook, perfect for a person who likes gardening. In fact this cookbook is packed with interesting recipes -- some I remember from my childhood. I know I will get my three bucks worth, at least.

Do you believe in magic?

This past weekend we decided to try something new to save money -- the magicJack. I know it's one of those infomercials products like Ginsu knives, the Snuggie or Sham Wow. I spent a number of years working in direct marketing, and I admit to being naturally negative about those products. I know firsthand just how little they pay for stuff that is purchased dirt-cheap by the container load, from China, Thailand and Hong Kong.

I will admit I was highly skeptical about the magicJack. I just couldn't get over how we could save at least $450 a year -- and that is without having long distance. If we had had long distance, we would have saved even more. With magicJack we will have long distance -- which is an upgrade of services for us. We knew we would just have to hook it up to a computer, left on all the time.

We went to CVS and found one hidden on one of the shelves with other infomercial products. The price was $39.99. We took it out of the box and hooked it up to the phone and to the computer -- and -- it worked immediately. We just had to log in online, choose an area code and the first digits of our phone number, and we were ready for the 30 day free trial.

The down side: 1) We can't get our old phone number. If the Internet goes out, our phone goes out. 2) The yearly $19.95 fee could possibly be raised sometime in the future, but I can't imagine it would be raised enough to make it more expensive than our old land line fee. 3) I hate the screen (in the photo above) which includes an perpetual ad -- very irritating. I guess the money I save could make me feel better about such an ugly screen.

The up side: 1) It was SO easy to install and set up. It started working immediately. 2) The sound quality was good -- now we do have a very powerful computer but the sound quality is just as good as our old phone line. 3) We can call anywhere in North America with no long distance fees. 4) The price for the first year was $39.99 rather than $450. Our price for next year will be $19.95 instead of $450. That is about the price of a pretty good computer. 5) I did like that it displays your number all the time and also the list of recent calls. 6) You can dial on your computer and talk though your microphones or even headset, if you prefer. You really don't need a phone to use your magicJack. Pretty cool, huh?

We are going to try it for a couple more weeks and then we will be giving up our home phone number. We will always have our cell phones, which we use most often anyway.

If this works out, I guess I will have to try the Snuggie!

Still finding seeds for our spring garden

Today I was able to stop by Arnall's Grocery to pick up a few more seeds. I really like to get the seeds I need in larger quantities at Arnall's because the larger quantities are cheaper and they are really good seeds. They carry the old reliable kinds of seeds that work in our climate. If you go to the University of Georgia website and look at the Extension office recommendations for which varieties to try, you will see what I mean.

I found collards, greens and English peas today. My basket of seeds and onion sets is getting full.

Instead of an amount the size of a quarter for $1, at Arnall's you get about a quarter to a half cup or more for $2.25 or $4.95, depending on the type of seed. You can also get larger quantities for as much as $8.95 but that is way too many seeds for my garden. I rarely need anything larger than the smallest or medium size.

Yesterday I received the Gurney's seed catalog and I loved that it included a $25 savings certificate. The deal is, if you order at least $25 worth of seeds, trees, flowers, plants, fruit trees or bushes, you get $25 of merchandise free. That is a great deal. I just had to share that news. Just sign up online for their catalog at gurneys.com and you will have until the middle of May to get the deal.