Time to clean your pantry? (link)

Here are some important tips about food storage in your pantry from Food Network: 11 Pantry Items You've Had for Way Too Long  

Sugar Time in spotlight (link)

Sugar Time, my time travel tales collection, is spotlighted on Cover me it's Monday.

Home sale update

Our next open house is this Sunday, October 23rd. We'll clean the house, stage it, and take our critters to a friend's home--again. We recently took down some trees that had outgrown their allotted territory and were shading out some of the back lawn. (Trees often grow taller and bigger than predicted here in Florida.) And we continue to sell our furniture and other belongings to dealers and at a yard sale. We even sold our dining room chairs, which we had planned to do anyway. Now we have to buy a new set. (I know that matched sets of furniture are considered passe by some designers, and I mix and match myself, but I would like my dining room chairs to match.)