Very cool Mike! Thanks :-) Trish, if that's all you husband has to worry about (not counting the 3592 roses! lol) ...... Allison

I'll have to come back and look and the Peach and Pear Chili Sauce more carefully later. I'm in the midst of applesauce and apple butter. However, basically that's a tomato-fruit salsa with a good amount of vinegar, so my instinct is it's OK. But as I said, I'll look more closely and find some recipes to compare with in a bit. Or Dave or Linda Lou or someone might feel inclined. The Ball Complete Book is a compilation of all the best from Ball (U.S. Division), Bernardin (Canadian Division) and Kerr (the "other" canning supply company which was subsumed by the bigger corporation). Bernardin Canada follows the same USDA standards as Ball but tends to focus less on the "standards" and offers more ethnic and "gourment" canning formulas. The Ball Complete (Bernardin Complete on the North side of the border) is dual metric and imperial measures. I like metric and find that handy. Keep in mind Ball's main interest is in making money via the jars and other canning supplies they sell. Publishing the Blue Book is a way to promote their product. They aren't trying to cover every possible recipe; it's not in their interest to expend huge sums of money for testing of a lot of esoteric recipes. So each edition gains a few and loses a few. (I don't know who Ball's recipe testers are, but a few of their offerings have been real stinkers taste-wise.) So that fact that a chutney or salsa or pickle or whatever isn't in the BBB doesn't mean there's no safe way to can it. It just means Ball isn't bothering with it. Keep in mind there are also reliable specialists out there. Linda Amendt's preserves are fun, though she's too fond of liquid pectin for my taste. Except for the curds, which I alluded to previously, she offers some great recipes and some very helpful tips and strategies. For sweet preserves there's also Linda Ziedrich (totally reliable) and Madelaine Bullwinkel is A+++ by me. The Jamlady cookbook is also reliable and like a textbook for the art of jams and jellies. Ziedrich's first book was on pickles and provides a wide range of pickling options from traditional fermented to quick pickles, canned, refrigerated and freezer. She has a peach-Pepper Relish to die for. I think it's still posted on some thread or other. Ellie Topp's Small Batch Preserving takes canning in new and interesting directions. Because she is a food scientist, she has the skills to devise recipes just a bit out of the mainstream. So those are some of the options. Gotta go. Carol

Sg-Beautiful! About 15 years ago I painted our living room a rose color. Can't remember what I used. But it was very pretty in there. One day I had an upset stomach and got the Pepto-Bismal out, and I looked at the bottle, then my walls, held the bottle to my walls and it was a perfect match. lol So if I feel the need to paint a room pink again, I'll compare it to the PB color! heh. It was very subtle and light rosey. I love "pink" rooms! I think most people are afraid to use the color in a public area, but IMO, it's one of the prettiest colors for LR's, etc.

Hmm, I have to disagree about if it's easier to "check" back on something when using an ereader, at least on a kindle. Tap once to bring up the search bar, type in a name or word/words, tap again and it brings up all the relevant passages in the order in which they appeared in the book. Tap to go to your chosen passage in the book, then tap the back arrow to go right back to where you left off. It's so easy--and thorough--that I almost feel like it's cheating. Is it different than riffling through pages and does it take a bit to make it feel natural? Certainly. I just read an article (PW? Library Journal? can't remember...) which talked about how the ebook bubble of astonishing sales seems to have burst. One theory is that people are finally developing screen overload--and want a break from their devices. Both my children, college students who are rarely parted from their phones, prefer paper books over phones or tablets. My kindle is a basic touch, so no back-lit screen, no glare, I can use it outside, but can't read in the dark without an external light. Its cover opens up like a book, the cover opens all the way back so I can prop it freestanding and eat while reading (this is far more important to me than it should be...) or in bed. So, it's less of a "device" experience, and not at all like reading on a (much smaller) phone screen. Also, with ereaders, the font size is easily adjustable, which aging or low vision eyes appreciate. Sorry that was so long--there's no zeal that like of the convert. :)