HELPFUL TIP #1
So my friends...yes pretty much all my friends out there that ever check in on me via this blog, listen up! I have spoken with several of you over the last few months who are always telling me "I'm so bad at checking my friends' blogs, what's the address again??" And I say to you...LAME! If you check your email daily, then you can do this next thing I'm about to share with you. You will never have to remember another blog address or try to remember to check them again. It is called GOOGLE READER! My sister blogged about this "must have" a long time ago and highlighted all of its wonderful benefits and even links to how you can get started. Now click HERE to read more about it and make your life easier and more enriched because you can stalk your friends on your own time and stay up to date on their lives....that is...if they stay up to date on blogging. But that's another issue for another time :)
So my friends...yes pretty much all my friends out there that ever check in on me via this blog, listen up! I have spoken with several of you over the last few months who are always telling me "I'm so bad at checking my friends' blogs, what's the address again??" And I say to you...LAME! If you check your email daily, then you can do this next thing I'm about to share with you. You will never have to remember another blog address or try to remember to check them again. It is called GOOGLE READER! My sister blogged about this "must have" a long time ago and highlighted all of its wonderful benefits and even links to how you can get started. Now click HERE to read more about it and make your life easier and more enriched because you can stalk your friends on your own time and stay up to date on their lives....that is...if they stay up to date on blogging. But that's another issue for another time :)
HELPFUL TIP #2
If you love watermelon as much as I do, then here is a tip for you! I am sort of a watermelon snob in that I'm very selective and particular about what makes a perfect watermelon, and one that is worthy of the time and effort it takes to dice it up for easy devouring. Because I love it so much, I will eat sub-par watermelon if I have to, but now I don't have to! Well, at least the last two experiences I've had, this method has proven effective!
Things to look for when selecting your watermelon:
If you love watermelon as much as I do, then here is a tip for you! I am sort of a watermelon snob in that I'm very selective and particular about what makes a perfect watermelon, and one that is worthy of the time and effort it takes to dice it up for easy devouring. Because I love it so much, I will eat sub-par watermelon if I have to, but now I don't have to! Well, at least the last two experiences I've had, this method has proven effective!
Things to look for when selecting your watermelon:
- It's heavier than it looks
- It sounds hollow when you thump it (that was my only technique for picking watermelons before, and that just left me wide open for poor picking)
- It has a very green color and a nice yellow spot
- There are no soft spots
- Bee stings around the stem (I don't know exactly what this looks like on a melon, so maybe this one is optional?)
- SUGAR CRYSTALS....I was told about this by someone else who was helping me select a melon when I was very pregnant with Ally and she took pity on me. They just look like black goo coming out of the stem or out of other scar marks (or as Dan says, "when it looks like a lawnmower ran over it") I usually passed over those because it looked too mangled, but the last two melons I've brought home had the scar marks with the black goo coming out, and it has been sweet every time!