Pawpaw Holler Home

The Foothills Parkway is an unfinished National Parkway that was started in the 1940’s, when completed it will offer unobstructed views of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Currently, construction is being done on a section up and beyond the Pawpaw Holler and we hiked up there Sunday. If you’d like to see some pictures of the progress on the Parkway and views of the Smokies from up there, I’ve added a gallery to my Townsend/Great Smoky Mountains page.

Foothills Parkway Pictures

Denese

Tags: Great Smoky Mountains, News, photos

Homeschool Freebie of the Day

Have you been remembering to get your daily freebie from Homeschool Freebie of the Day?
Today’s freebie is The Jolly Book of Playcraft,vintage fun stuff and projects for kids of all ages.
Get it today, it’ll be gone tomorrow.

Homeschool Radio Shows

This week, in honor of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, the Living Books for the Ears program presents two audio stories about his life, Out of the Wilderness and Mr. Lincoln Goes to the Play. These are available all week.

CurrClick

This week’s free downloadable product from CurrClick is a preschool – third grade geography unit; Continental Little Hoppers: Africa, from Teacher Book Bag.
More freebies from Currclick are here.

Arrow Educational Products

A free Reading Activity Workbook to help students improve their reading, writing, spelling and comprehension is available from Arrow Educational Products.
Pdf file.

Teacher Created Resources

Get free lessons, teaching tips, activities, calendars and weekly brain teasers from Teacher Created Resources. This week’s brain teaser is a Geometry Mind Twister.
Freebies are updated regularly, so check back often.

Denese

Tags: education freebies

Living on a Dime is having a one day sale on Dining on a Dime e-book . Dining on a Dime is full of recipes and tips to help you eat better and spend less, and for today only you can get it for $5!

Sale ends tonight at midnight.

Denese

Tags: sales, Super Deals

I recently added some new features to my site and had a little trouble doing so, hopefully my trials and searching will help someone else.

First, I wanted to list events in a calendar (a real calendar-not a list) in my sidebar without having to post about them. I tried adding my Google calendar but the pop-up descriptions didn’t re-size and couldn’t be read. I found several WordPress calendar plugins, but most of them create a list of events from posts. The one I eventually found that displays an actual calendar that you can add events to without posting about them is Events Calendar by Luke Howell. The calendar can be configured to display as a list, also and you can even add a big calendar to a Page. Events Calendar is a great little WordPress calendar plugin that works well for me.

Next thing I wanted to do was add CommentLuv to share some link love for my commenters. I fiddled with it and fiddled with it and the only thing it did was add some strange code at the top of my site. After searching through the forums, I finally found out that CommentLuv is incompatible with two other plugins I use. After some more searching I did find another WordPress plugin similar to CommentLuv called CommentMilk. CommentMilk installed fine with no compatibility issues with other plugins (so far) and it can even be configured for running contests. CommentMilk is a good alternative plugin if you’re like me and can’t use CommentLuv.

Let me know what you think.

Denese

Tags: blog tips, Wordpress

“If yer gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough.”

*Previously posted on my old blog.

Denese

Tags: The Ol' Hermit

Sign up for SalmonRecipes.net newsletter and get a free salmon recipes e-book.

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Smoothie-Recipes.net

Get the classic  “The American Frugal Housewife” as a free e-book from Google Book Search.

The American Frugal Housewife

Also from Google Book Search is “The Baker’s Book: A Practical Hand Book of the Baking Industry in All Countries” by Emil Braun, originally published in 1902. Neat pictures.

The Baker’s Book

Another classic, “The New Dr. Price Cookbook” by New York Royal Baking Powder Company, can be downloaded from Project Gutenburg.

The New Dr. Price Cookbook

Would you like to cook up a presidential meal? Inaugural Luncheon menus and recipes can be found at the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.

2009 Presidential Inaugural Luncheon Menu and Recipes

2005 Inaugural Luncheon Menu and Recipes

2001 Inaugural Luncheon Menu and Recipes

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free e-books, recipes

Marilyn Moll of Urban Homemaker has a new free e-book out.

Fast and Healthy Recipes for Busy Moms

More later.

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free e-books, recipes, recipes and cooking

If your planning a trip to the Smoky Mountains you might want to wait a day or so, most of the roads are still closed.

GSMNP Temporary Road and Facilities Closures

Some of them that were closed yesterday aren’t on the list but it has been snowing all morning and we have just had a Winter Storm Warning issued.

Blount Smoky Mountains Winter Storm Warning

To check for updated road conditions call (865) 436-1200. Once you hear a voice, dial extension 631 for road information or extension 630 for a weather forecast.

All the snow will make a nice backdrop for the Winter Heritage Festival that starts tomorrow.

Townsend Winter Heritage Festival

Denese

Tags: Great Smoky Mountains, News, Townsend, weather

Free E-books

Glaucia the Greek Slave -historical fiction from the Emma Leslie Church History Series being republished by Salem Ridge Press, available through Thursday, February 12th

Discoverers and Explorers -free product of the week from CurrClick

Lapbooking

Ecosystems Project Pack -semi-annual freebie from In the Hands of a Child

Women in History

Women’s International Center February Birthdate Calendar

Math

Sleepy Riddle Math Worksheet -pdf file from WorksheetLibrary.com, grades 2-3

Denese

Tags: education freebies, free e-books

Free Homemaking E-books

The Joyful Christian Homemaker -scripture for homemakers

Victorian Home Life, 1861 -Victorian love, child-rearing hints, home-making tips, and recipes

How to Bake Vol. 1 -from Free-ebooks.net

Recipes

February Sunday Dinners -from OldFashionedHomemaking.com

3 Valentine Recipes -from OldFashionedHomemaking.com

Recipe Hit List: 12 Homemade Bread Recipes

Other Resources

Index to USDA Home and Garden Bulletins -from the USDA National Agricultural Library

Denese

Tags: free e-books, recipes