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While looking at recipes on Newspapers.com, I came across this 1862 recipe, recommended for the aid of sick and wounded civil war soldiers.   "It makes an agreeable and refreshing beverage and those who desire to do something for the aid of the sick and wounded soldiers, cannot prepare anything more acceptable than a quantity of this Raspberry vinegar." It's not quite raspberry season here in Pa, but we may attempt a batch once it is.   The Shippensburg News  (Shippensburg, Pennsylvania) 05 Jul 1862, Sat  • Page 3

First Batch, April 2017 "Jelly made from dandelions is similar in taste to spring honey. Try making some of your own with this recipe!" I was skeptical - but it truly does taste like honey!   INGREDIENTS 1 quart dandelion blossoms 2 quarts water 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 package (1 3/4 oz) powdered fruit pectin 5 1/2 cups sugar INSTRUCTIONS Pick the dandelion blossoms and rinse thoroughly. Snip stem and green collar. Boil petals in 2 quarts water for 3 minutes. Cool and strain, pressing petals with fingers to extract juice. Measure out 3 cups of dandelion liquid. Add lemon juice and powdered fruit pectin. Bring mixture to a boil (large jelly kettles work best for this). Add sugar, stirring to mix well. Continue stirring and boil mixture for 2 ½ minutes. Pour into small glasses and cover with paraffin when jelly is cool. Enjoy! (I processed mine in a water bath for 10 minutes, instead of the paraffin.  ) The Pantagraph  (Bloomington, Illinois) 01 Aug 1979, Wed  • Page 29

I'll be using this post to check our requirements and see what we qualify for.  The Bachelors Degree is 7 hours from home from us... but since we are at least a couple of years away from earning the degrees, travel to the graduation ceremonies is the least of our concerns.  https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5CRR1_bachelors-degree-in-geocaching-challenge-cache This is a really interesting geocaching challenge cache series.  There may be other versions, the series I refer to here is located in Ohio.  Each of the three degrees has a cache page with the "course requirements" to earn the degree.  Once completed, you receive a certificate with your geocaching name.  "E ach degree recipient is eligible to receive an e-mailed  diploma  certifying his/her accomplishment. The President of the University will contact you for an e-mail address to which the diploma may be mailed." This cache owner not only put in some serious thought, and work, to create this series, but

Have you seen the new "Snipping Tool" in Windows 10?  It's REALLY handy.  Now instead of hitting the print screen button, opening a graphics program, pasting the image, then cropping it and saving it, this tool does it all in a few less clicks. It's found under Windows Accessories in your start menu.  I dragged it to the right and created a new tile for it, as you can see above.  You could also drag it down as a short cut in the bottom toolbar. To use it, click on the app, and a little tiny box pops up.  Select the part of the screen you want to crop, then name your save. That's it.  SUPER quick. There's a more in depth tutorial here -  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots

When our kids were little, we once passed a sign for a waterfall and our youngest piped up with "well there's another hour added to our trip".  LOL!  I do love to stop and see everything along the way on our trips. To balance out my need to stop at every interesting sight, with my husbands need to actually get where we are going, we plan ahead with My Maps. It's a google app, separate from google maps, named My Maps.  This is the most awesome app ever. (I may say that about several apps.  Many of them made by google actually.  But I always really mean it.) You can create as many maps as you want.  You can add many layers to each map.  You can add routes to maps, to show distances between locations.  You can color code locations, use different icons for different locations...  You can share your maps.  So when I create a map for a trip we are taking, I share it with my husband.  We can both then use the map to navigate to the locations. You can go to   https://www.goog