CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES

FIESTA WARE IS STILL MADE IN THE UNITED STATES

UPDATE MAY 2012 : We recently saw MADE IN CHINA Heavy Plastic Fiesta Ware style and lable being sold (not so inexpensively) at a discount store and were really upset. We just checked the web site linked here and it appears all is well with genuine Fiesta Ware made in the United States. Please, double check with the companies, even if we post. There are often changes we can't keep up with...

THE HOMER LAUGHLIN CHINA COMPANY is still in business.... since 1871 PROUDLY MADE IN THE UNITES STATES! (link above!)

Memories of growing up with Fiesta Ware on the Table.... I still have and use a set in classic white!

Remember the Betty Crocker Catalogue? Unfortunately several of the AMERICAN COMPANIES they featured have closed down in the last 10 years. ALL THOSE JOBS gone!

The Homer Laughlin China. Co.
672 Fiesta Drive Newell, WV 26050
Phone: 800-452-4462

SILVERWARE MADE IN THE USA RARE ! BUT POSSIBLE

OK... we did a little research and though we are not certain that what the SILVERSUPERSTORE says is true (because we found ads with claims of Made in the USA) we are linking to them because their site SEEMS TO BE AWARE that patriotic purchasers are on the look out for AMERICAN MADE flatware or cutlery.

"Previously, there were no stainless flatware patterns that were made in the USA since the Oneida factory shut down in the spring of 2005. Finally though, there are several stainless flatware patterns that are exclusively manufactured in the United States, with steel that's also made in the USA."

THEY FEATURE FOUR PATTERNS: Pearls by Revolution, Hudson by Revolution, Montgomery by Revolution, and Saratoga by Revolution....

THESE ARE MADE FOR THEM BY SHERRILL MANUFACTURING

102 E Seneca StreetSherrill, NY
13461Phone:(315) 361-3600

http://www.sherrillmfg.com/

(ONIEDA closed in 2005/2006)

RECYCLE ! A THRIFTY HABIT TO GET INTO NOW

This morning I saw a crowd around the closest recycling center. Seems that due to finances, more people are recycling - and that includes dumpster diving and otherwise picking up bottles and cans that one did not purchase beverages in, in the first place.

RECYCLING is a HABIT to get into because it is also GOOD FOR THE ECOLOGY!

And check out some of the new plastic bottles like that of DASANI WATER, a product of the Coca-Cola Company that uses PLANT-BOTTLE TM technology; 30 percent of this plastic is from plants!

MAXFIELD PARRISH WITH TRUMPET and DRUM 1904

The Great American artist Maxfield Parrish ...

NATIONAL CHORUS sings OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM!

THOMAS HOOD Quotation

"If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst."

-Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

In our shopping cart today AMERICANMAID Heavy Weight Hangers

the store also had some great colorful plastic , rope handled tubs, for laundry, ice, whatever.

PROUDLY FLYING THE AMERICAN FLAG

PLASTICWARE MADE IN THE UNITED STATES

AMERICANMAID
VM International
Carson CA

REMEMEMBER THAT VACATIONING IN THE UNITED STATES

has it over vacationing in any other country there is... because you are spending your DOLLARS here, keeping people employed...

MARVIN GAYE THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER

EVEN A LITTLE CAN HELP A LOT NOW!

IF YOU CANNOT BUY ALL AMERICAN because foreign products are priced so much under the MADE IN AMERICAN ONES, promise us that you'll SWITCH OUT ONE ITEM IN YOUR SHOPPING CART TO AN AMERICAN MADE ONE!

US FLAG ORG tells YOU how to FOLD THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

With R E S P E C T - link now!

"The first fold of our flag is a symbol of life.

The second fold is a symbol of our belief in the eternal life.

The third fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veteran departing our ranks who gave a portion of life for the defense of our country to attain a peace throughout the world.

The fourth fold represents our weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in times of war for His divine guidance."


http://www.usflag.org/foldflag.html  updated 2015

WHERE YA GOING? TO THE ATLANTIC, THE PACIFIC, but not the GULF OF MEXICO

The BRITISH PETROLEUM oil spill, now the size of Maryland and West Virginia, is a true DISASTER. CAN'T WE FIND WAYS TO REPLACE THE USE OF OIL?

ALL AMERICAN CHILD

THE TIME TO FOSTER PATRIOTISM in OUR CHILDREN is WHEN THEY ARE CHILDREN! When you take your child to shop, show them labels, explain to them that we live in the greatest country on earth throughout all known history, and to keep it that way, we must honor the labors of our own citizens. CITIZENSHIP BEGINS AT HOME!

SUMMER - SCHOOLS OUT and VACATION IS DUE

Though we know that in some places there are YEAR ROUND SCHOOLS, for most of us summer is the time to have a vacation from school and maybe go on vacation away from where we live.

Depending on where you live and what your budget is, remember LOCAL PLACES and PLEASURES.

For others giving through short term volunteer work is the key and with all the natural disasters taking place in the USA - Nashville ? - this may be part of a clean up effort or RECYCLING EFFORT!