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Hungarian Grate a head of cabbage, easiest way is to use a food processor. Depending on size of cabbage, a tablespoon or so of salt is sprinkled over the grated cabbage and place in a non-reactive bowl in the fridge for a few hours. Now, if you are ambitious, make some homemade noodles, cut...

23 Years This old Carrier unit came off the roof last Summer. It had date of 1986 on it. It was a 5 ton unit, combination gas heat/electric AC. It was replaced by a new Carrier combination unit. It's final death knell was when the tech tried to service it and black glop started shooting out the...

It seems to be working for me on the post I created over in the As the Tub Turns forum. I get the hover text on edit and remove. I went to the post Quality Ranges in this forum and though no new posts there, when I clicked Spin it dropped right to the bottom. That post, due to the pictures in it...

Spoiled Paypal worked great. After all the changes you've made to the site I am sooo spoiled by it. When I go to other discussion groups, have to plow through all the old threads, etc. You've done a wonderful job with this. Thanks!

Wish they had them out west here. I shopped there a few times when I lived in Missouri and they had the best store brand cornbread mix.

Grew up with one My parents had a Detroit Jewel stove. When they moved from Detroit in 1949 they bought the stove to Phoenix, Arizona with them. My mom's uncle worked for a stove company that made the Jewel and I believe they got a discount through him. The stove was white with black trim. No...

GE 1978 That same range, in white, with microwave was out in a neighbor's driveway a few days ago. The houses in this development, including the one where I live, were built in 1978. Those ranges must have been standard equipment for these houses. I've seen a couple kicked to the curb over the...

Tried it, Liked It Tried the new Tide on a santized wash in the Samsung washer. Takes about 3 hours including the silver care feature. I was pleasantly surpised. I have spilled some BBQ sauce on a white tee shirt and it also had some yard grime on it from working outside. The shirt came out...

Needle Threader Hopefully the link below will go to a picture of a little gadget for threading needles. You lay the thread across one end, hold the thread taught, then run the threader down the length of the needle. When you hit the eye of the needle you push on the back of the threader and a...

Ah Launderess, yes, the joys of a serger and inventing new languages to go with them. Much as I love the Elna, it is no different. You have to thread it carefully and if you don't it is nothing but trouble! For me, I forget to raise the foot, thus releasing the tensioning discs for the thread...

I'm using an Elna 945, it can use up to five threads, depending what stitch is selected. It can do the chainstitch as well as coverstitch. Chainstich is what you find sometimes on dog food bags. Pull one thread and the whole thing unravels. The coverstitch is usually what is found around the...

To do this on a sewing machine you could try to use a double needle and possibly with some type of edge stitch it may work. The big problem would be getting the woolly to feed through your bobbin case. The serger, with its two loopers can handle odd sizes and type of thread like the woolly...

Finally Done Here is the new finished edge. You can get thread is most colors to match your towels or you can use contrasting thread. Once the edge is finished I use a product called Fray Block on the just the two ends of the edge. Check your local craft or sewing store. It looks and smells...

Serging Away Just about done with the towel. You can start to see the new finished edge toward the back of the foot. The serger cuts off the old frayed edge then passes the towel under the needles and the looper. With terry cloth it is a very messy proccess.

Threading the Serger I am using what is called a wrapped edge. Two of the serger needles are threaded with regular thread and the woolly nylon goes in the lower looper. My serger is computerized, so it sets itself to the correct tensions and tells me how to set the other adjustments. You can do...

Extra Woolly Nylon As a comparison the thread to the left in the picture is regular serger thread. The extra woolly nylon is to the right. When the woolly goes through the serger it will stretch out and then relax once it is in the seam to fill in any gaps in the stitches.

Recently there was a thread on towels. I like the big bath sheet type towels. Almost 10 years ago I received 7 Ralph Lauren ones for Christmas. Finally they started to wear along the edges. Of course no self respecting housewife would put these out on the line to dry. What would the neighbors...

I was just at Target here and picked up a Loads of Hope bottle with Acti-lift. Will see how it does on set in stains. I recently switched from Tide HE to Gain HE and then liquid Gain HE. So now something new to try.

All okay here. Using Cox high speed (supposedly) internet, IE8 and sometimes Firefox. Did not notice any problems at all with the site in the last few days. Also running Trend virus software.

Roof Mount Tom, this area was built around 1978. Roof mount units were the what most houses have. The whole system, A/C, heater, etc is in that one unit. No air exchanger in the house. New homes out here do have a split system with the compressor mounted on ground level. With the roof unit, it...