MOVE OVER BLUEBERRIES

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Move over blueberries. You have lost top billing as one of the best foods for antioxidants. Yes they are still an amazing little fruit so full of live giving antioxidants that is would make our heads spin. We still love their sweet taste that is like no other.
The new kid on the block is now black rice. Yup. It is that lovely little black grain that turns purple when you cook it. It is bursting with iron, fiber and anthocyanin antioxidants. Anthocyanin antioxidants are found to be promising in the reduction of cancers, heart disease and bad cholesterol. All this in a spoonful of rice. Sounds like something I can get behind.

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A spoonful of the rice has more of these benefits than a spoonful of blueberries and is much more affordable and available year round.

I am joining in with Designs by Gollum for Foodie Friday. Stop on by and see what is cooking at Michael Lee's

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

I am so glad I read this because I was just going to go out and get one for myself. Now I don't know if I can trust them. I would be so worried about going up in flames while I was driving to the grocery store or the coffee shop it would be hard to concentrate.
It would be such a concern when I parked it in my garage at night that I don't think I could sleep. Nope I guess I will have to stick with my VW for a while longer. At least until I am sure Ferrari has fixed this fire problem for good.

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Fires in the car that sells for $197,000 have been reported in California, Switzerland, China and France
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/09/02/con-ferrari-recall.html#ixzz0yNUCvKZp

PINK SKY AT NIGHT

This was the sky at our cabin one evening in July. Some of the colour comes from the fact that there were forest fires burning and it colours the atmosphere for hundreds of miles around. 

TYPICAL B.C. INGENUITY - ROUND 2

Once again British Columbia is coming to the forefront with some fairly unique thinking. We are well known around the world as a great wine producing region. Our B.C. wines win awards in some very prestigious competitions.
In the Okanagan region some creative thinkers have started feeding the winery waste and byproducts to their cattle. They say this makes the meat very finely marbled and the fat is sweeter. Now I don't like my wine sweet and I really don't think I need my fat (not that I eat the fat) sweet either. 

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Janice Ravndahl, started by by putting out a pail of the stuff and they just started eating it. They are given a litre of red wine blend daily and they seem to prefer the sweeter blends.
She says it makes the cattle much more "chatty" but I think they are slurring their moos.
"I really luv ya Bossy"
"I luv ya too Elsie, yur ma besztest friend"
"Buurrrrpppp"

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She says the wine mash makes the steers more docile and therefore the meat is more tender.  A university cattle researcher says it doesn't seem to harm the cattle at all. Ya like we believe a university researcher about booze consumption....toga...toga....toga. I am sensing a remake of the movie Animal House. 

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Can someone please pass the aspirin bottle and an ice pack.
Now if they start feeding this to milk cows I may start having cereal for breakfast. 

LET'S GET MUDDY

I have shown you the beautiful art cards done by Jen at Muddy Boot Dreams before. She created the Forget Me Not card on my sidebar. A portion of the proceeds of those cards goes to the Alzheimer's Society. 

Jen has a new line of cards available and I wanted to share them with you. 

She is really a talented lady and has a great eye for beauty in nature. 

You can see her whole gallery from her web site. 
Don't forget that Christmas is coming and these would make lovely gifts. 

Make sure you have a look around her blog and follow the link to her web album. 

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I am joining in Three or More Tuesdays at The Gypsy's Corner and with Outdoor Wednesday with A Southern Daydreamer

SUNDAY FAVORITES - RETRO GLAMOR SHOTS PARTY

I am re-posting this as a reminder of the upcoming Glamor Shots Party. Don't wait until the last minute to find your old glamor photos. Scan them now and get your post ready for September 14th.

Mimi over at Living in France gave me a great idea. You know Mimi don't you? She makes me laugh on a regular basis. 
She posted an old glamour (I'm Canadian, we spell it that way) shot of herself from years back and as I read the comments about everyone having their own pictures done too I figured it would be fun to have a Glamour Girl party. You remember those photos you had done 20 years ago where they did your hair and makeup? We would have them at our houses and the crew of photographer, hairdresser and make up artist would come and we would have a party. Food, wine, friends and some amazing transformations. An assembly line of women in various stages of super modeldom.

So here is the deal. Start looking for your pictures now so you don't miss out. They are likely hiding away somewhere in a box.

Tuesday, September 14th

I will put up a Mr. Linky post so you can link up your own fabulous Glamour Shot from the old days.

Don't be shy, share these great photos with all of us. Some will be funny and some will be awesome but hey they are all us and we are always a work in progress. 

I have had them done twice and wow was I ever a hottie!!! (snort) They were taken about 20 years ago.

We will all link up our posts with our beautiful glamour 

photos in them. Please post the badge from my sidebar on your blog as a reminder and invitation to others to join in. 

Chari at Happy to Design is hosting Sunday Favorites. She is one of my favorite bloggers. Get to know her and you will see why.

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TEMPLATES & GADGETS & WIDGETS--OH MY!!!!

It is now 10:40 p.m. and I have been up since 5:30 this morning. As usual this morning I made a quick breakfast and turned on the computer (my nice new one) and checked on my blog and email.

Imagine my horror to see that my background was missing and there was just a long strip running down the center stating that the picture from the background was no longer available  because they had exceeded their bandwidth on Photo-bucket.

With no time to take care of it I had to throw up a quick notice that I knew there was a problem and was going to work on it. I got home from work at 6:30 and started in right away. I have been testing templates all night long and none of them worked right.

An IT guy at work explained a lot to me this morning about how to avoid these problems but I am old and I don't remember these things. I will have to learn because apparently by using the blogger editor I am using up so much more space than I have to.

Why is it that every template I liked wouldn't work. They would look fine and then I would notice little problems. Sigh.
I have gone back to a basic Blogger template and will live with it. It is not my usual style but it is growing on me. It is easy to read and I guess that is most important.

OOPS MY TEMPLATE IS GONE.

UPDATE.....I AM TEMPORARILY USING THIS TEMPLATE UNTIL I FIND A ONE I WANT TO USE. SORRY ABOUT THE MESSY SITE. SEE YOU SOON.

I was recently thinking of changing my template and BAM when I logged in this morning my old  template was gone. Apparently the place I got it from is over their bandwith and it is all over for me. 
And here I was going to spend my weekend cleaning closets. 
Well obviously I can't do that now if I have to find another template and tweak back to my specifics. 

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