The third batch of authors

From September 30, 2010 through March 1, 2012 these were the authors in the third batch of 30 books featured in various posts during that time:

Allen, Nancy Kelly

Appelt, Kathi

Balian, Lorna

Barretta, Gene

Bunting, Eve

Carr, Jan

Dewey, Simon

Emberly, Ed

Garland, Michael

George, Jean Craighead

Hal Leonard Corporation

Harper, Charise Mericle

Harvey, Miles

Hobbie, Holly

Krause, Ute

Kurlansky, Mark

Leavitt, Jacalyn S.

Lunis, Natalie

Magic Eye Publications

Mayer, Mercer

Myron, Vicki

Otoshi, Kathryn

Rockwell, Anne

Ryder, Joanne

Schmidt, Amy

Singer, Marilyn

Tudor, Tasha

Underwood, Deborah

Young, Ed

See  http://cookingandorscience.blogspot.com/2010/09/list-of-second-30-authors.html  for the first two batches of authors. 

Sunday Randomness #11 Helpful shovel

The square nose shovel.  Perfect for many outdoors tasks, such as: chipping ice chunks, edging, weed control, leveling, scooping and delineating straight lines in a garden.

Bountiful Baskets January 2013

 Bountiful Baskets $15 for 8 oranges, 4 bananas, 1 asian pear, 1 avocado, 6 fuji apples, 4 multicolored carrots (one was rotten), 5 orblanco (one was an extra for Mica for volunteering with me), 1 box grape tomatoes (some not quite ripe), 1 box strawberries, a bag of Brussels sprouts (which we roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper-mmmmm.......), 2 bunches of celery (one was an extra for me for volunteering) and a whole bunch of mild small peppers.

 Lunch box pack for $10.50 with 3 asian pears, 3 granny smith apples, 5 fuji apples, 7 oranges, 2 pomegranates, and 5 red sensation pears.

12 pounds of raw, unpasteurized honey from Utah (and Idaho?) for $34 in a beautiful glass jar. That works out to about $2.83 a pound.  (One bottle was bought by friends-I just picked it up for them.)  We looked up the latest price on honey from the national honey board at: http://www.honey.com/honey-industry/honey-industry-statistics/unit-honey-prices-by-month-retail and the current national price per pound for pasteurized honey is $5.67 for January 2013.  Raw honey is usually more expensive than pasteurized honey and even a quick search shows that other Utah honeys are selling for about 4.45 a pound up to $8.00 and more a pound.  I'll have to post again when we try the honey.