This hand-made French Style Apple Pie has been a Pink Adobe favorite for decades. Included with the pie is a 3 oz. package of Rum Hard Sauce. Pie includes baking directions. This is a favorite dessert at The Pink Adobe. I have no idea how many French Apple Pies we have made-thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. At any rate, theyve all been eaten with gusto. -Rosalea
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Photoshop is a phenomenal product! Although I have owned a copy for years recently upgrading to CS3, I did not fully appreciate the power of the product until I purchased the Photoshop WOW! Book. The Adobe documentation, as is common with much software, stops short of being truly useful. A reference prepared by someone whose focus is using a product is almost always better. I am sure there are other very good books, but I can recommend the WOW book earnestly. It doesn’t simply explain what features are available, but how to use them to accomplish remarkable things.
Regarding Photoshop, it is a tool designed to satisfy professional photo editors. The capabilities far exceed what the average point-and-shoot photographer’s needs, making it difficult for the amateur to justify the time and cost necessary to master its many intricacies. For pro’s, there are few limits once you get up the learning curve.
If you just want to clean up you snapshots, invest in something simpler and cheaper. If you want to be a photographic artist, Photoshop is your tool.
This film is technically excellent, but there is an old timey “feel” to it, reminding me of “educational” films (narrated by the incomparable Alexander Scorby) I saw as a boy sitting in darkened grade-school classrooms, while other kids passed notes and whispered and giggled.
The narrator of Alone in the Wilderness, Bob Swerer, is also incomparable, and for me makes the film more than the sum of its parts. Swerer’s hauntingly intimate and intelligently hokey voice is in the first person, the script taken from the journals of Dick Proenneke. Once you hear Swerer’s voice you can’t get it out of your head.
“Survivalists” would be more interested in the hunting, fishing, and canoeing aspects of Proenneke’s 24 year adventure, and the lake itself looms large, but the film is most profoundly a lesson in Proenneke’s extraordinary woodworking using simple hand tools. You are taken step by step, though not painstakingly, through the construction of the cabin. These are not primitive, “heritage” tools–Proenneke lacks no kind of saw, for example. The “stars” of This Old House might take note of the degree of fit and finish Proenneke brings to his little cabin and hearth–nothing less than amazing. A brief shot of meat frying in a pan, and an array of condiments, shows that Proenneke, thanks to the seaplane visting every so often, did not lack certain amenities of civilization, such as Tabasco sauce.
Alone in the Wilderness
I was surprised to find that there is only one 8 minute workout on each tape, unlike the Abs of Steel tapes which contain 3 workouts to rotate. The actual content of the tapes varied. The moves on the abs tape were customary and effective, although after doing the same routine daily for a while it would likely lose its impact. The buns video was not as effective and terribly hard on the knees. I had concerns about the form and discontinued doing it to be on the safe side. Both tapes are extremely fast paced and it is important to move at your own speed so that your moves are done safely and properly. Don’t try to keep up with the host, he moves much too quickly.
Overall, I dont recommend this film. The abs of steel series are a better value with more diverse workouts, and some quick biking will do the backside more good than 8 minute buns.
8 Minute Abs With 8 Minute Buns
A most enjoyable way for learning the basics of the American revolution. The book by Thomas Fleming really compliments it quite well.
I really enjoyed the actor portrayals of the men and women involved giving voice to the words they actually wrote. And the way they were combined by the film served quite well. Thomas Hutchinson really comes across as Parliment’s Quisling, seeking their support for his ambitions to hold local offices. Contrasting Hutchinson is Ben Franklin (extremely well portrayed) whose ambitions are clearly imperial. Or Rochambou, seasoned and experienced, contrast with Lafayett’s youthful idealism.
I also enjoyed the Historian interviews. Clearly the Brits still don’t understand what this war was over. They really should study their own civil war between Parliment and Charles I before they even try to tell us what our war with them was over.
Overall, I enjoyed this series. Superbly filmed. Narated nicely. Portrayed realisticly. A joy to watch.
Liberty - The American Revolution