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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Roadshow rejection and Rookwood success
One day last week I was
excited to see an email mes
sage from the producers of
the Antiques Roadshow in
my inbox.
As you know I registered
for tickets a little over a
month ago. I quickly opened
the email only to have my
smile turned upside down!
Bah! It was a rejection let
ter!
This is what it said:
Unfortunately, you were
not selected to receive tick
ets to the 2008 ANTIQUES
ROADSHOW event in
Chattanooga.
We wish we could accom
modate everyone who applies
for tickets, but space at our
events is limited. There
will be no additional tick
ets available now or at the
event, and we do not have a
Charlotte
Perkins
Staff writer
Food for Thought
You'd better
shop around
Last week I brought up the whole matter of doing grocery
shopping with cash only. I’ve stuck with that, and it’s work
ing for me. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of walk
ing into the grocery store with a S2O bill (Peggy Bledsoe can
vouch for me, because we met in the store and I showed it
to her) and walking out with exactly what I came to buy, and
$11.90 in change.
This got me interested in all those small differences that
add up to major money over a month or a year.
So, I did a little research. I got into my car and drove to
four grocery stores, one right after the other.
Not wanting to be banned from any local grocery stores
, or to look as if I’m recommending one over the other, I’ll
call them Store A, Store B, Store C and Store D., but I prom
ise you they’re right here.
I wasn’t buying anything. I had a pen and a notebook,
and I was looking at prices for three ordinary grocery items
so that I could compare the cost of store brands and well
known name brands, as well as comparing the prices from
store to store.
Here are comparative prices for eggs, peanut butter and
raisin bran as of right now in south Houston County. Just
the facts,, Jyl’am.
1 dozen large eggs.
Store A, store brand, $1.53 per dozen;
Eggland’s Best ,$1.94.
Store B, store brand, $1.58 per dozen ;
Eggland’s Best ,$2.29
Store C, store brand, $1.69 per dozen;
Eggland’s Best, $2.59
Store D, store brand, $1.79 per dozen;
Eggland’s Best, $2.69.
Creamy Peanut Butter, 18 oz. jar
Store A, store brand, $1.76; Jiff, $2.08
Store B, store brand, $1.79; Jiff, $2.79
Store C, store brand, $2.19; Jiff, $2.55
Store D, store brand, $1.99; Jiff, $2.39
Raisin Bran, 20 oz. box
Store A, store brand,sl.Bß; Kellogg’s, $2.66
Store B, store brand, $1.89; Kellogg’s $3.06
Store C, store brand, $2.49; Kellogg’s $3.39
Store D, store brand, $2.99; Kellogg’s, $3.59
In fairness to Store D, which is obviously looks a little on
the high side, it may well be that they have deals on fresh
produce and meat that make up for the higher costs for
ordinary items like peanut butter, eggs and raisin bran, or
that they have special sales.
Store C had the lowest cost for a half-gallon of milk, and
for my favorite brand name yogurt 8-pack. Store B had a
store brand cereal I really like, priced at two boxes for $4.
(The brand name version is $3.39 a box)
In other words, if we had all the time in the world and
nothing more interesting to do, it would probably pay to
shop around from store to store on every item, but nobody’s
going to do that, and , that’s not my main point, anyway.
My main point is that just as it pays to keep an eye on
those rising numbers on the gas pumps, it pays to shop
;■ around - not just from store to store , but also from shelf
to shelf.
If you’ve been trusting the same name brand for years
(or even decades) I know how you feel, because I’ve auto
« matically reached for familiar brand names countless times.
However, I’m trying more and more store brands these days
•f and learning that many of them are as good as the name
■i brands or downright identical. In a few cases, I’ve decided
■| to stick with the name brand I was buying before, but at
i least I know why I’m paying more.
Or, if you’ve just got to have the brand names, or you’ve
got somebody in your house who’ll only accept one brand
. of peanut butter or one brand of raisin bran, or can really
•' taste the difference between one egg and another, you’d bet
\ ter shop around.
') Grocery prices are expected to get higher, so spend a little
L time comparing prices and figure out which store has your
i favorite brands for the lowest prices, because in case you
.' didn’t notice, Stores A. B, C and D have different prices for
ij exactly the same brands.
■a '1
Read Peggy Bledsoe
every Saturdayin the
Houston Home Journal
ticket waiting list.
Thank you so much for
your interest in ANTIQUES
ROADSHOW. Please visit us
online at pbs.org/antiques to
explore our new Web-only
features, including a search
able ROADSHOW video
Archive, and please continue
to tune in Monday nights
at 8/7C on PBS to watch
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW.
In other words, don’t
even think about it!
After moping around for a
few days, I went to the mail
box and found some kind of
thick catalog in a registered
postal envelope. I thought,
geez, what is this? I don’t
remember sending away for
any catalogs. I took it inside
and unwrapped a beautiful
color catalog for the annual
Rookwood XVII Keramics
FOOP^HOME
Jillinda Falen
Antiques
and Art Glass Auction by
the Cincinnati Art Museum
on June 6.
I purchased a beauti
ful robin’s egg blue 1930’s
piece of Rookwood at a local
auction last year that was
signed by Judge Charles
Bell. He was a judge in
Cincinnati that presided
over a locally famous case
known as the Arsenic Annie
case. Annie was a serial kill
er and the first woman elec
trocuted by the Ohio Prison
Preventing diseases in your vegetable garden
This
week we
explore
some
thoughts
on pre
venting
diseases
in your
vegetable
garden.
Sooner
or later,
Tim Lewis
Garden
Columnist
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plant disease will enter your
garden. However, there are
ways to reduce and, in some
cases, even prevent plant
diseases.
1. Leave plenty of dis
tance between the rows in
your garden. This will allow
good air circulation. If one
row is allowed to grow right
into the next, the plants
will never have a chance
to dry out properly after a
rain or irrigation. Constant
moisture above ground level
encourages diseases.
2. Place your garden in
the sunniest spot possible.
Ultraviolet rays kill many
would-be harmful organ
isms, and keeping your gar
den on the dry side between
Saving on food costs
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food expenses. Once you have purchased your groceries,
plan out your preparation strategies. Doing some prepara
tion the night before may be helpful. Remember to take
frozen meat out of the freezer to thaw in the refrigerator.
Cooking in quantity may be a useful tool. Remember your
goal is to provide your family with nutritious meals while
being frugal.
Peggy Bledsoe is the Houston County Extension Coordinator
with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and
works in the area of Family and Consumer Sciences. She
can be reached at 478-987-2028.
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I quickly opened the
email only to have my
smile turned upside
down! Bah! It was a
rejection letter!
system. What a provenance
to accompany that piece!
The roadshow is going to be
sorry they missed that one!
I purchased the piece last
year and figured it would sell
better and be more appreci
ated in it’s rightful region
and sent it to the auction
about 3 months ago.
I had actually forgotten
about it. It is item 1195 in
the catalog of beautiful and
rare Weller, Roseville and
Toad In A Hole: the American version
From staff reports
In England “Toad in a
Hole” has sausages. In parts
of the U.S.A. it’s a fried egg
ii in toast. Here’s how:
8 slices sourdough bread,
about 3/4-inch thick
1/2 cup melted butter, or as
needed
8 eggs
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon ground black
pepper, or to taste
waterings discourages many
potentially harmful organ
isms.
3. Try to avoid cultivat
ing, pulling weeds, or thin
ning when the plants are
still wet. Disease organisms
(bacteria, fungi, and viruses)
cling to your clothes, hands,
and tools, and these can
easily be Transferred to the
plants when they are damp.
4. Keep insects under
control, since they are dis
ease carriers. Do this by not
allowing the area around
the garden to grow up in
weeds. I realize that this is
easier said than done, espe
cially this time of year when
the weeds and grass seem to
display a growth spurt.
Also, do a good job of
monitoring the insect pop
ulation inside the garden.
Check your plants often
- everyday if possible - for
signs of insect damage and
presence.
A prime example of this
is the spotted wilt virus that
many of us are seeing these
days on our tomatoes. This
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Rookwood pieces. I don’t
know how well it can com
pete with some of those out
standing examples of fine
pottery/ceramics but it will
be fun to see how it turns
out.
When I go North antiqu
ing, I look for southern piec
es to bring back to sell here
and find Northern pieces
down here to sell back home,
I like to call it “liberating
antiques back to there old
home places”.
Even though I don’t cur
rently have a store front, I
am still quite active in the
estate sale business and buy
and sell antiques at auction
and on eßay. One of these
days the economy is going to
turn and I will have a store
once again. If I can help you
with any of these issues as
1. holes in the center
of each slice of bread using a
2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter. Be
sure not to get too close to
the crust of the bread. Brush
both sides of each slice of
bread with the melted but
ter.
2. Heat a griddle to medi
um-high heat. Griddle the
bread on 1 side until golden
brown, about 1 to 2 minutes.
Flip each piece of bread over
and crack 1 egg into the
hole
virus is actually carried by
thrips, insects which typical
ly damage small grain crops
and then move on to other
host plants.
5. Till under or compost
all plant residues after your
plants have stopped bear
ing fruit. Leaving them to
wither untouched only pro
vides a place for pathogenic
organisms to multiply.
A word of caution is in
order here, however. Till
under only healthy, unaf
fected plants. The disease
organisms on diseased plants
which are tilled under the
soil will many times, under
the right conditions, merely
multiply and or overwinter
in the soil and come back to
haunt you in the spring.
6. Avoid watering your
garden on muggy, overcast
days. Watering sometimes
splashes disease spores pres
ent on plant leaves and on
the soil onto other plants’
leaves. In other words, don’t
water when the garden
doesn’t need watering!
I hope these pointers
will be helpful to you as you
strive to produce a disease
free, fruitful garden.
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well as real estate, please
feel free to contact me.
If anyone else out there
got tickets to the Antiques
Roadshow, let me know! I
would love to write a story
about your experience. If
you got the “reject” let
ter like me, don’t despair,
we will try again one day!
Happy Collecting!
Jillinda Falen is the for
mer owner of Carrie Lynns
Antiques and is an experi
enced estate liquidation spe
cialist as well as a licensed
Realtor. She is also in
charge of the Antiques sec
tion of the Georgia National
Fair. You can contact her at
falen@windstream.net or via
the Houston Home Journal.
in each piece of bread.
3.Season the eggs with salt
and pepper. Fry the eggs for
about 2 minutes for sunny
side-up eggs, 3 minutes for
medium yolks, and 3 1/2 to 4
minutes for hard yolks. Flip
the bread over, being careful
not to break the yolk, and
cook for 30 seconds more, if
desired. Serve immediately.
Photo and recipe from
The Culinary Institute of
America
Tim Lewis is a Georgia
Green Industry Association
Certified Plant Professional,
gardening writer, former
Perry High School horticul
ture instructor, and former
horticulturalist at Henderson
Village and Houston Springs.
He and his wife, Susan, own
and operate Lewis Farms
Nursery located on Hwy 26
two mites.east vfElku, where
he was born and raised. He
can be reached at(478)954-
1507 or timlewsis@alltel.
net.
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