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Looking for a dessert that's both easy and sure to please? This is the one! Serve it with berries and whipped cream for a special treat.

Winter is a great time to plan a landscape of your dreams. The basics of residential landscape design planning are an essential part of creating an outdoor living area you'll love. Your front yard and back yard landscaping design will blend the natural grounds surrounding a home with its architecture to create a beautiful, unified and inviting place to live.

While vacations serve as great breaks from the daily grind of the working world, they can often make a larger dent in your pocketbook than planned. And, if you don't take a few precautions to protect your finances while traveling, especially abroad, you could fall victim to theft, fraud and a lot of headaches trying to recover your expenses.

Some of us have been doing the same exercises for way too long. Adding variation to an exercise program not only allows for increased physiological improvement, reduced risk of injury, prevention of overuse, but also a reduction of psychological/mental monotony.

Our safari experience in Tanzania was AMAZING! We started out at a tented camp where they had about 40 hippos "in residence".  They lived in the river running right outside our tent and there was one subordinate male who was ostracized from the group that took up residence right next to our tent, so we would see him walk past in the evening trying to sneak back into the river only to be ousted again. We saw everything -- giraffes, elephants, lions, cheetahs, leopards, buffalo, a wildebeest migration, ostrich, rhino (mommy and baby), zebra, Thompson gazelles, monkeys, baboons, vultures, eagles, hippos, crocs, hyenas, warthogs, and jackals. Here are only a few of our photos.

Many cities in north Texas have increased their water restrictions for this winter.  While the temperatures have cooled, it was a long hot brutal summer.  Our plant materials did not get the moisture they needed, even with proper irrigation.  Recent rains have helped plants recover, however a dry winter is forecast for the north Texas area.  While you may or may not live in an area with major water restrictions, we feel it is still wise to help conserve as much water as possible at all times.

Today was the perfect day in Western Wisconsin to pick out a Christmas tree. I bundled up in my winter coat and boots for a cold winter day, oh and don't forget the gloves. It's such a pleasure to visit the Lowes Creek Tree Farm near Eau Claire each and every year.

When two members of our travel group made dinner reservations to go to dinner in Girona, Spain, at El Celler de Can Roca, we knew it was a Michelin 3-Star restaurant.  But, we didn't know that the restaurant critics who matter rank it as #2 in the world. El Bulli, the top restaurant, just closed its doors.  So, theoretically, El Celler is The Big Deal. The day we planned to go to the restaurant, we decided to climb in and out (literally) of buildings in the old city center of Girona and hike along the top of the Roman wall.

The old town of Girona is a popular day trip from Barcelona, about 2 hours by train and slightly less time by car. It stands on the steep hill of the Capuchins to the west of the river, while the more modern section stands on the plains to the east. The city is easy to explore by walking its narrow streets, passageways, and along its ancient Roman wall. The Roman city wall, the 'Passeig Arqueològic' (the archeological walk), begins at the northern edge of the city. Within the wall you can still see the remains of a Roman road, built to connect Rome to Tarragona.