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August 29- This week thanks to a visitor, we've added to baby products, so please take a look and added featured news and images for Ford, Toyota, and Honda.
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July 9- the latest report from the ECI on our business page and a list of restaurants if you are up in the White Mountains of NH, on your way to the coast, or attending the NASCAR races in Louden, NH.
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July 6- Blue denims and pants for men in various fabrics, poplin, twill, khaki, and also their Oxford cloth hirt, hard to find made in the USA, all from Bill's Khakis, detail on mens' jeans or clothing. Also a reminder that great sport socks are made by Wigwam, available in sport shops everywhere. And thanks to visitor, Steve, for the lead to Double H Boots for men and for women.
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June 30, a link from Ford explaining the cash for Clunker program.
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May 24-Just in time for the barbecue season, quick solutions to bring
back the original surface beauty of redwood.The details are from redwood authority, Raul Fernandez, on our conservation page. American Ingenuity-Painters Crown, cleans your brush with 2 easy swipes, designed by a painter.
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May 15- Take a look at our listings for food related events from coast to coast. Strawberry festival in Oregon and the Lobster Festival in Maine, also information on Ford's test drives, and statistics for employment plus free shipping and a sale price on a craft kit from Greenleaf Dollhouses..
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May 4- Wine tastings in New York State for July and for November/December.The first one is in Watkins Glen with 80 wineries participating. The second is in Elmira, NY. For wholesale apparel, see the new listing for Fessler USA. And check out some nice photographs for the garden sent to us from our visitors.
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April 22, Information about losing jobs to Mexico in the car industry. Junior Fashion has an article on choosing clothes for clubbing. House and Home has additions for flags.
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April 2, A page for Ford all on its own to see if we can't help with what's going on and one just started for GM. We're working on individual pages for the others, Chrysler, and foreign makers as well who have their assembly plants in the USA.
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March 25- Just in time for Father's Day, Minuteman Pen, a family owned company in New Jersey doing pens, pencils and markers. Texas Jeans makes jeans for girls, boys, men and women. We also started a new page for FAQ.
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March 15- Skull caps, do-rags, butter cream frosting, chocolate cake and tulips we planted in November and brought into the house in January, are blooming. Also have some great looking leather accessories, belts, caps, for you from SolesuThe lake is still frozen, the road is mud, the ice huts are moving out, the "yak traks" are put away for next year, and spring with the no see "ums" and summer people will soon be here.
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March 6- two special offers for you just in time for spring: one from Leather Connexion and the other for redwood outdoor furniture.
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March 1- Depression Sandwich on recipes.
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Feb. 13- For those of you who check this regularly, we are sorry not to keep it updated as we add things almost on a daily basis, but a few issues have prevented us from allocating the time needed. However, here is what's new, some additions to footwear, men's, women's, and children's plus frozen foods, and then cheese and yogurt.
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January 29 - From a report of April 2008 by the National Highway Safety, we list the top ten American made cars starting with the Ford Crown Victoria. Interestingly enough, the reference is to American/Canadian. I guess that's the best they can do.
And today we have a new page, message board/forum for you to talk to us and other visitors. No registration required.
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January 26: Two thousand jobs will be lost in March at GM plants in Ohio and Michigan. And don't pay any attention to some of these data reporting companies. One company (we wont mention its name so as not to give them free advertising) reports we have less that 2,000 visitors per month, when actually we have more than 4,000 per month for the last 6 months of 2008 and with 14,000 page views in the month of December. Maybe they have stock in foreign manufacturers. Please contact us is you would like to receive a printout of our statistics for year 2008.
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Jan 11 This week we add American made women's coats and dresses from CarolAnn Wachter, American made Baby Slings from EIEIO. Blue jeans for men and for women, and Super Bowl Suggestions on recipes, crab meat appetizer, tabouleh salad, (American style Tabouleh with bulgur wheat from Bob's Red Mill), and make ahead Chicken, Polish Sausage, and Jasmine rice, all make ahead the day before so you can enjoy the Super Bowl with your guests. Also tried to add a forum page for you from Google, their new gadget called Google Friends Connect, but still haven't got it to work. But you can try it. who knows you might have the magic touch for your comments.
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Jan. 4-Fraud and Identity theft, both a nasty business so try not to be a victim. Postal inspectors report that once you have been identified as a candidate, you might get onto a list that continues to target you.
Keep in mind that you can get help. Try your local chamber of commerce or your local post office. They will both be interested in helping. In addition, you can go to your state Department of Consumer Affairs.
Here are two useful websites. The first is for the internet report to Federal Postal inspectors. The second is for reporting by regular mail. See this page which you can download. Using the internet, you can contact the Better Business Bureau
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January 4th-SCAM ALERT-Big Scam-Little people-Listen!
So you work all your adult life. You retire, the two of you to live carefully on your savings, and however else you planned for these days of no earned wages every week.
Maybe it’s a pension plan social security, and return on investments, a few of the old standby’s that everybody bought into. You worry about the stock market, your grand children and the future of the country with all this economic turmoil.
You’re not rich. You’re not poor either. But your family is healthy; you are reasonable mobile and active for your age and you feel good about a lot of things, especially after Christmas and the fourth of July when the whole family manages to get together under one roof. Now, you wake up one morning, go out for the mail and see a big white envelope, no return address.
No alarm bells ring so you settle down to read what’s inside. It’s a sheaf of papers with a matter of fact note telling you how you can pay your insurance four times a year by simply sending them a check and they will pay it for you on time. Or you can send them a check for the entire year instead of the four payment.
Alarm bells are going off now. There’s no mention of any payee except them,
We keep reading the remaining pages. More alarm bells ring. Why? well, you can authorize an electronic transfer where you never have to write a check again.
All you have to do is give them your bank account numbers, your signature, your social security number and a few other details.
Well, now you know. Report these scumbags to the government as fast as you can and ring your friends to warn them, the sooner the better. These nerds prey on senior citizens and chances are they fool a lot of people into sending them money. Try to help your neighbors to avoid being victims.
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December 28- take a look at men's gloves, (or women's gloves) where we list a new one for you, thanks to one of our fans. We'll have some more, thanks to all of you out there who write to us as soon as we get caught up after losing nearly two weeks, (ice storm state wide power failure and recovery). And yes, the ice storm hit us so there is the ICE STORM SPECIAL TO all our friends- Whew, a long nine days with ice,
no power from the power company, a faulty generator 1)spewing CO into
the house, 2)not burning all the propane, 3)and nearly starting a fire. Full story coming next week as we recover from
A Christmas, sort of scrabbled together with very little preparation.
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22 December, Whew- Ice Storm, power out and nine days later, the lights finally came on: quiet in the woods with generators off and nothing but winter magic. The lake was half frozen and the sunset on Saturday, our first day with power, was breathtaking. Now we are trying to get ourselves organized again, not too pushed out of shape for Christmas with children and grandchioldren all arriving Christmas day.. We did buy two Mag-Lites, made in the USA, and happy to have them after the generator started spewing carbon monoxide into the house. The CO monitor thankfully awakened us at 4:30 in the morning. You can stand the mag lite flashlite up and it will reflect off the ceiling illuminating a good sized room. We'll have more next week about the whole ice storm and the power outage and hope the people still without power see it soon restored. In the meantime, Merry Christmas.
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December 1st. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE-BUY AMERICAN- Try to buy American and help your neighbor keep his job. Buy foreign and American jobs are lost.
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Nov. 21-It's the automobile industry and their suppliers that are this week's focus. Dura makes shifting and cables for the automobile industry, and a precision engineering that supplies components is the Viking Tool Engineering company. And remember that New Balance does some sneaker manufacture in the USA so when you go to buy your winter sneakers, check out New Balance, black leather walking sneaker.
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Nov 2. New Page added which tells you all about dog kennels, dog jackets, toys for dogs and cats, dog beds, and some super fantastic looking dog bowls, down to earth equipment for dog training, that time consuming never ending activity without which your cuddly puppy turns into at best a pain in the xxx or a miserable monster.And take a look at the tools we've found. Some would make perfect gifts, Christmas, Fathers Day, Birthday gifts.
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Oct. 31- Oh Dear! Obama has just booted Washington Times reporters from his plane. Why? Well, we just added Washington Times headlines and stories to our Coffeebreak Blog page.
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October 23 A ball launcher for the dog lovers among us. Ever wonder why you can't have an arm like that of Ian Manning? Well now you can, almost. Ball Launcher is made by Chuck It. And although it isn't a product we have new pages for you to enjoy, information and tips on things such as health, relating to sun exposure, caloric intake, alcoholic intake and pthalates plus another page offering testimonials on what our visitors say about us and to us. .
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Sept. 13- Prayers for Texas and Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Ike as the Mayors of each of the affected towns to try to deal with problems of water supply, effluent problems, flodding, coordinating emergency personnel crews, and possible injury or death to residents who chose to stay.And finally, an event to say Thank You to all branches of the militry for protecting our freedom, TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING, on LAKE FORK, TEXAS.
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| Sept. 1- Prayers for residents of Louisiana and the companies in the Gulf Coast.
Check out women's clothing, wholesale, and beers. And take a look at a back to school quick dinner, using Jones pork sausage and baked potato.
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Aug. 29-What's new is that for the first time in American history, a woman has been nominated as the Vice presidential candidate for the Republican party. (Geraldine Ferarro was the nominee for the Democratic ticket in 1984.) That is what is new. Pretty amazing and Gov. Palin seems a pretty amazing lady.
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Aug. 13 Too many new entries to list here but I will mention two on our Wide World Page, one from Peru, delectable little pickled asparagus pieces. The other one is Geisha, from Thailand, white albacore tuna, puts other brands to shame. And for a fantastic photograph of a young boy with a young lamb, see Wonderful World.
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Aug 4- a lot of catching up to do because of tornado touchdown nearby in Epsom NH, loss of cable services, and more traveling because of road closings but we did do some work for you. We separated the wine and beer pages, so if you are looking for regional beers and American nationally available beers, you can find the expanded page. It's always great fun when your're traveling, to sample the local beers and wines so we've given you a head start by organizing them according to state. Please send us what you find so we can get all 50. We also researched more events for you to attend in the various categories you seem to be most interested in, crafts, family fun, food fairs, sports related, (with marathons and half marathons, motorcyle races, etc.) and wine festivals, and garden shows. It just might help save on energy use, if you can find things to do close to home. We found some great one we'd love to go to ourselves, not least of which would be the balloon festival and the oyster fests.
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This week we concenrated on food. With the summer fruits and vegetables available in all the stores and farmers' markets, we have two, using plentiful and sweet zucchini and the good for your brain, blueberries. You'll find stuffed zucchini and blueberry cobbler. Also, there's still time before the cold weather sets in to plan for food festivals around the country, north, south, east, and west, harvests are coming in, great fun for the entire family.
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July 21-Some very special companies for you to look at. Interstate Bakeries, the country's largest bakery, making all of their products in the USA, brands you can trust, cakes, bread, muffins. Then the oldest furniture retail business in the USA, Eggers Furnituree, in Middleboro MA, the same town where they started. Then unusual for the automobile industry, an American company making car and truck grilles, Carriage Works Inc from Missouri. And suggestions (No More Junk) for people who are unhappy with the kitchen junk that's on sale in supermarkets and hardware stores. NO MORE JUNK is not hot air from failed presidential candidates or jet setting movie makers. It's like everything else in this world-one concrete step at a time. Take a look. If four or five people in every ten households formed a NO MORE JUNK group, you'd soon see a change for the better. Also, take a look at our American Made clothing addition on our Wholesale page. There are great looking shirts and jackets for men and women made by King Louie. You can ask for King Louis in the clothing shops or ask your dealer to stock them.
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July 14-Take A Tote consists of American Made great looking and affordable fashionable shopping bags, travel totes,travel pillows to pop in the car, and more. On our sports page, a new addition for American made forkbags, saddlebags, and sissybar bags from Deerfield Leathers. And just a glimpse of the future, September maybe, if not before, a new page for girls and women's clothing. We're hoping to figure out how to migrate all the original entries to the new page, making it easier to find what you want.Please keep sending us the names of companies making their clothing products in the USA. This industry needs our help, yours and mine. The first redesigned listing will be for great looking American made sweaters, scarves, and hats designed by Karen Allen. Also there are updates to our crafts calendar and the wine tasting calendar and two new calendars we've just started, a festival events calendar geared to family fun and then another one centered on gardens. (You can send us details if you have a listing for any of these.)
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July 8-Basic America Recipes-what could be more American that vension? We have a book for you: Recipes and Hunting Tips from Terry Townsend an American expert whitetail deer hunter; also, basic American recipes so you don't have to use foreign ingredients- lobster from Maine, and two with sausage and chicken. Quilters Legacy of Lakewood Ohio show in October; American made Clocks from Franklin Instrument for education, government. New entries for wine and beer festivals and if you've ever wondered about whether or not there is a mushroom festival, well there is. Somehow we find these things, not exactly sure how!. Details on food or wine and beer. And just when we were wondering what else we could find for you, our email brought us the news of John Zirpola's website for American Made Workbenches. They are fantastic. Take a look. And finally don't miss the astonishingly beautiful hand crafted flutes from Rick Heller, great for introducing children to music and also a selection of collectors' items. One more addition, a list of articles "Reading for a Rainy Afternoon."
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July 1- More Buyer Beware Tips concerning homes, what we found worked well and what didn't on American made Building and Construction page. Also we have some ideas for you for the garden, turning an old American made wheel barrow into a great looking planter. It's on Patio and Garden. (And for the garden experts, please identify for us the plant my son planted about 8 years ago. He has forgotten the name.) New for this week is an events calendar to give the crafting people some advance notice
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June 23-not such a good week with the internet connection acting up, electrical storms, and a really happy day taking us away from this work: an unexpected visit from one of our sons which resulted in a special little recipe for Extravantly Delicious Lobster which we had as a first course but could be a complete meal with larger portions, a green vegetable, and crusty bread for dipping. We also offer a chapter on relationshps on the Special Interest page, the title of the article is You Can't Buy Love-You Need a Plan. Bak to What's New, we'll expand this entry with more American companies ASAP but be assured that the Cosy Harbor Lobster meat is an American company up in Maine. We buy it in the frozen food section of Hannafords.
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June 16-New this week is Outer Limits, an American furniture company offering sleek and exciting designs, not to be missed. And in the clothing category, we have two American companies in the clothing category. First there is Tom Bihn with terrific computer bags, backpacks, tote bags, all with pouches and compartments to organize everything for you. Second there is American Joe Apparel, doing tee shirts for the whole family with really great logos. And then we have a special thank you to some of you out there who write to tell us how to keep this American Made website as good as it can be with corrections and comments on our data, the wrong town for one of the car assembly plants, a plastic company where we should have had a wooden toy company. It makes us feel great to realize you care. Thank you.
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June 9th- American made from Soft Star shoes for the whole family from baby through toddler, children, youth, and then for Mom and Dad, see our clothing page.
Then for fantastic quilts, we have some wonderful designs from Kim Morris.
And if you are remodeling or building, check out one man's opinion on faucet styles. See our building and construction page. You might also be interested in some irresistible chocolate from Brown and Haley. They make the delicious Almond Roca butterscotch bars and more. Finally, take a look at our crafts page for a fantastic miniature lobster shack kit you can order from Greenleaf. A bit removed from material things is our Special Interest page. Americans are known to be a generous people and many look for ways to reach out to others. This new page we've started offers ideas from organizations which reach out to others and some which are involved in preservation and conservation of the environment.
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June 1- Tested, easy entertaining, make ahead recipe. Tested and tried, and photographs, company version and family version, sausage and chicken with rice. And we have added a new page entitled Special Interest which brings you a "just starting" list of organizations where you can do something for the world around you and meet like minded people. And a few more that really makes us happy because you write and tell us you are looking for these thing, another dinnerware maker listed on the House and Home page at the bottom, an American golf club maker, Louisville Golf Clubs on the sports page, a children's furniture maker, Wild Zoo on the furniture page and a winery in Pennslyvania, see Wine and Beer.
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May 26 Allegheny Treenware, American made wood utensils from West Virginia, award winning design, and a great addition for any cook. See House and Home. More American Chocolates, this one from Vermont listed on our food page.
We also have a do it yourself cold frame, for your garden on our crafts project page plus American made craft kits for children and adults from Toner Crafts, available in stores and online.
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May 12th -We've added about 12 new American Products this week and we'll mention two or three: Siren Mountain Bicycles, Medicine Wolf Rustic furniture, O'Cedar Mops, Dial Anti-bacterial soap, to name a few. And going back to Medicine Wolf, they do a great looking carved bear that might be just the right thing for Dad for a Father's Day Gift.
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April 14, so many new products this week but we mention only a few, Alpine Rustic Furniture about to add a new line using Beetle Kill Pine. Then two new addition, toy makers, KVale with their building planks and Sanders with their hardwood maple, ash, and Black Walnut toys with their safe mineral oil finish. One of the things that has been keeping us busy is photographing the ice going out of the lake, so recently home to ice fishing huts, snow mobiles, and pick up trucks of one size and another. This past week there was still lots of ice, but is breaking up and new home to a pair of nesting ducks as well as a lonesome Canadian goose who seems to have lost his mates. You can see it all on Wonderful World, our blog on blogspot. Make sure to look at the Archives to see what it looked like in dead of winter.
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April 8, Family favorites everywhere and no artificial ingredients, Jones Little Pork Sausage; Crafts Project for the spring, a cold frame, easy to do, but needs two strong men to put it in place. And if you love awesome, take a look at, Wonderful World where we have chronicled the break up of the ice on the pond. The recipes include the tips for the elegant French Mocha Layerd. remeber, wee don't specialize in thousands of recipes. These are carefully selected dishes you can prepare in advance, the day before or freeze to make life easier. And we list Vitro America in Grenada, Mississippi where they make mirrors, glass and other products, (two listings, Industrial page plus the Building Construction page).
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March 31 This week we've found another clothing manufacturer, Pointer Brand in Tennessee. The make denim products, all kinds inclding jeans and they also do some t shirs. Also on our clothing page is one our favorite companies which has a nice new catalogue with lots of American made sneakers, New Balance. And we can say they are comfortable and wear really well. You'll probably become tired of them before they wear out. Also we have some tips for you on how to have a nice wine tasting party. It's on the wine and beer page which we just started, concentrating on finding a few award winning wineries in each state. (If you want to send us suggestions, use our contact page). And a few more finds just in time for summer: clothing offering uv protection from the sun, Sun Chasers. American Wave International making wet suits for water sports, and Louisville Golf making golf clubs.
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March 31, More ideas for Fathers Day with tools, flashlights, and outdoor clothing.
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March 24 Dog food and cat food, dog treats from Eagle Pack. Then there is seafood including canned clams, mussels, and lobster, suaces, and soup from Bar Horbor Food in Maine, and another addition for our food page, Happy Moon chocolate. And for an especially high quality flashlight we have Mag Lite listed in Fathers Day Gifts.
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March 17th-We apologize for being late with this week's What's New, but IT problems suffocated us. We seem to take three steps forward and two steps back. One of the things that keep us going are the thank you's we receive from the great companies across America who are producing quality products that compete successfully with the cheaper imports filling the shopping malls and the internet. This week, we have brought you a Father's Day Special so you can order early, furniture listings, dog food and dog toys, drinks listing, and a report on two restaurants we tried in Boston for restaurant week. Lastly, there is our selective recipe page. Take a look at the country spareribs, great for easy, relaxed March evenings.
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March 10 There's baby booties and toddler shoes and Shoes for men women and chiildren from Footskins. Also Carhartt with men's outdoor clothing and work clothing. And we've just started a new page for you for Father's Day. We'll add to it as we find more. also, our wine and beer page is expanding as we aim to travel across the US and find at least 3 award winning wineries for you in each state. And although the season is ending for ice fishing, we took this picture on Saturday and hope he catches something. Kind of lonely, it would seem.
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March 3 This week we have some new wineries and beers added to our listing. We're doing one or two states and looking for award winning wines for you. And while you are sipping your beer or wine in your garden this summer, there's an idea for making an interesting planter, a photograph and directions. Also, the new Ezine article on German Shepherd puppies by Jan Ryan. In Recipes, we have visions of the rest of March and on Coffeebreakblog, the daily headlines so you can have news from all over the world if you want to..
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Feb 24 A new page added this week, is American made wine and beer. We're starting with beer from all over the country and wine from Texas, in the Austin area and Colorado, the Denver area. Also we have book recommendations on the subject of ice fishing on Fishing Extra. Plus more on American food, mushrooms with chicken and onions from California, a dish you make the day ahead and refrigerate. And lastly, a fantastic laundry basket. It sorts itself. True we fly to outer space, but sadly, we still have to do the laundry.
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February 18 A special knitware company for you, producting hats, scarves, golf club covers but minimum orders are 36. Great for teams, schools, clubs, and of course companies and retailers. We list them on the sports page and gifts page for golf club covers and you'll see them in clothing for the hats and scarves. Also a great new recipe using mushrooms with a photograph showing how to present it with the emphasis on doing the cooking the day before. Also check out foods for New Orleans style spices and Melissa's Pearl onions which we added this past Friday. Also on our Baby and Bath page, a brand new column on bringing up baby from SUPER GRANDMA, 999. Finally, on our Big Dog page, the story of mans best friend managing to, if not save a life, at least prevent hypothermia and its consequences.
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February 14. Please take a look at our page called coffeebreak blog for a complaint about the House of Representative wasting taxpayer money on making themselves famous on the coat tails of sad Roger Clemens. And don't forget to use this address lists at american-yes.com the subject should be- february snow We don't open feedback form because of spammers. Two new items in food, prepared foods by Zatarain's and white pearl onions, produced and distributed by Melissas both available in supermarkets.
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Feb 5, Feb 6
A current study on pthalates is causing some concern regarding negative long term health effects on babies. Dr. M. Marshall, WBZ, is suggesting that parents who are worried can choose fragrance free products, gentle soap for washing and petroleum jelly for moisturizing, avoiding products with pthalates.
For the farming industry, check out A&G Welding.
Cattle Pens, Gates-A&G produces galvanized cattle panels. gates, sheep and goat pens, hog pens and hog panels. They also produce picnic tables and campfire cooking grills, heavy duty and adjustable height.
And yes, check out recipes for the easy first course mushroom recipe.
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Opinion on coffeebreak|blog in two categories, Berkley, Cal. and it's pathetic attitude toward military recruiting and the Bill Clinton recession solution to global warming. Then we have a great photograph of of ice fishing on our sports page along with the gear you will need to catch yourself a nice trout for your dinner.
Next on our clothing page you will find leather jackets, cashmere scarves, hats, and knits sportswear for men and women.
And starting off February recipes is a really easy appetizer that goes wonderfully well crusty French bread and your favorite white wine. And next week we'll show you how to transform it into a main course unless you want to do it for us and send us your transformation.
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| Jan. 26, 2008 the products listed here are available in supermarkets such as Shaws and Hannafords in the Northeast or from the online links we've provided for you, or selected stores. You can try asking for them when you shop and they might just try to stock them. Categories today are for the food network, including food products and recipes; greeting cards, a really special one, new belt buckles, and foreign made boots, but really nice ones.
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Jan. 7, 2008
Our New Poll: FOR JANUARY Shipwrecked? You have three children you want to save. Who do you want in the lifeboat? to make decisions, what to do, how to do it and when...Eight to choose from. Choose one or more. I guess you'd eliminate anyone who would think only of himself. See the Home page, at the bottom of the page,
Our New Blog: http://americanmadeyes.com/blog1
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January 5, 2007
Three special new photographs of Big Dog taken during the first snow and afterwards, and showing him just finishing his check out of the progress of the ice coming in. (Watch for pictures of the ducks that landed, to take shelter from the storm in the small stretch of open water still available to them, lucky ducks.)
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Jarnuary 3, 2008
Two new articles on fishing:
Treveor Kugler - TOP 5 SMALLMOUTH FISHING TIPS
Charles White - BUZZBAITS IN THE FALL
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Dec. 22, 2007
Games: KVALE see TOYS
Hand Crafted Wooden Toys: Dave Spencer see TOYS
Note Cards: Olde Tyme Mountain Crafts see Greeting Cards
Bronze Cast Bells, Chimes: Bradley Cross See House and Home
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Hershey chocolate will be moving some of its production facilities to Mexico early in 2008 resulting in the loss of 1,500 jobs.
Check the labels America. Buy American. 11/13/07/
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