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Stauffer Mansion has been turned into something of a museum, and the surrounding land is now Stauffer Park. This picture was taking from across the street, just to the side of the Boston Market on Route 501 (Lititz Pike).

The Coffe Co. cafe is located at 1639 Lititz Pike, in the Lancaster Shopping Center. Directly across the parking lot is A.C. Moore, to one side is Michael's, and on the other side is Giant (the main supermarket in the area) as well as a large Christ...

I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I started building this lens. I thought "Gee, a section on the movie, a section on the TV series, and a section on the attraction. How can that be enough?". But look what it's become! All those movie...

I am a major wuss when it comes to rollercoasters. I never even liked baby coasters! I actually cried the very first time I road Walt Disney World's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (how embarrassing!). Unfortunately, my husband loves coasters. Not the...

The 2003 computer animated movie Finding Nemo was made by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Once Disney and Pixar became partners on a more permanent basis, the hugely popular movie was parlayed into even more lucrative ventures- such as...

Pinocchio may have started life as a humble tree in 19th century Italy, but it wasn't until Walt Disney gave him German roots... ahem... that he truly began to grow. OK, I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself. I'll try to behave now, really. Walt D...

I've had many hits, recently, on a blog post of mine that mentioned things like Disney lanyards, carabiners, etc. I felt so bad for all these searchers who were landing on a page that didn't actually offer any of these things, that I thought I'd buil...

If any American deserves to be emulated and admired, it's Walt Disney. True, we've had some incredible heroes in our past. But did any of them spread their own patriotism as far and as well as Walt Disney? We've had some incredible artists, enterta...

I have a mad love-on for bags, purses, and anything else that can hold things (I've used thimbles as mini-bowls). I also have a love-on for most hand crafted items. When I first got into Etsy, my main objects of drool were the purses, and I still go...

I have a serious love on for most hand crafted items. Maybe it's because I'm a crafter and jewelry maker myself, maybe it's just because I start out hating anything "normal" and have to be won over. Etsy is a goldmine for people like me, and there a...

Tea is simply packed with goodness. Delicious, can be served hot or cold, sweetened or not, flavored with fruits, or any other way you can imagine! There have been many studies done proving out many theories on the health benefits of tea, whether it...

Ok, so I ripped that title from my favorite Food Network chef, Alton Brown.  But it fits.  For a long time it was difficult to eat healthy foods without cooking from scratch, and who has time for that? It's not so much that conveni...

PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome) is a health issue that plagues many women today, including me. It can cause weight gain, facial and body hair, hair loss, acne, discoloration under the arms on the sides of the neck and between the thighs, as well as...

I'll admit it. My favorite foods in the world are white rice, potatoes, and pasta. The refined kind. Eventually I came around to the realization that I actually need to eat real food if I want to be healthy. And so, I started experimenting with whol...

If you think that plain bran muffins are too blah, or perhaps you think they're too sweet, then these pumpkin bran muffins are for you. They use half the sugar of a regular bran muffin recipe, and none of the fat. Plus, the pumpkin and the spices jus...

My husband loves meatloaf, but guess what? I don't. It's not that it doesn't taste good, I just don't like dealing with the clean up. You've got the mixing bowl, the big, awkward roaster, and the serving platter. So I adapted my recipe to make a stov...

I love the idea of bran muffins. The idea, but not the reality. You see, bakers today seem to think that adding an extra cupful of sugar will make the bran more palatable- when in reality, they're ruining any health benefits their customers may have...

This is a great, simple, and oh-so-yummy recipe that I've recently perfected (in my mind). In the writing of this curry chicken wraps recipe, however, several more dishes developed out of the basic recipe. They are featured below.

I've been using Bisquick my whole life, but rarely have I used it according to its traditional recipes. Of course, these recipe variations can be used for other pancake and biscuit mixes, but the measurements may differ (I've tried the Chocolate Haz...

It seems, these days, that there are as many blogging platforms available as there are reasons to start a blog. Blog is short for weblog, which simply means a series of online posts presented in reverse chronological order. Most blogs are presented...

I know that I'm a little outside of the Christian YA target age group, but these days genres cross all boundaries. Good writing is good writing, and the books on this list just blow those boundaries to smithereens. Just so you know, Donita K Paul's...

Otherwise known as "humorous Women's Fiction". I love chick-lit almost as much as I love fantasy. I love the smarmy attitudes, the slightly-more-realistic romances than typical romance novels, the independence... But in most chick-lit there's one el...

I'm a huge fan of chick-lit, fantasy, and anything humor.  I also can't get enough of "how to write books" books.  Anyway, I'm always talking about what I'm reading on my blogs, and reviewing them for TitleTrakk.com.  So, I t...

I have loved fantasy for well over 10 years- and Christian fantasy is a subgenre that finally seems to be coming into its own. True, authors like Stephen R Lawhead have been around for ages, and Tolkein is considered the father of fantasy, Christian...

When I first met my husband, I had never even heard of DVD games (or VHS games, for that matter!). However, being a huge gamer of all kinds, he wasted no time in introducing me to some of his favorite DVD games. Some I even liked! Of course, some of...

My husband is a child of the 70's and an avid board gamer. Every year, it seems, he brings out yet another game from his childhood and convinces me to play it. He prefers the old school VCR games to what is being produced today on DVD. Of course, At...

Being efficient is a wonderful thing on your own time because it allows you to spend more time pursuing your interests. But being efficient at your day job? Not so good, unless you're swamped with work. So what to do with all those extra minutes, o...

My husband grew up in the '70's, and has maintained a great love of the era. When I met him a little over 6 years ago, he wasted no time introducing me to a few of his favorite things- most of which were electronic board games. Some of them stuck: D...

I'm not much of a TV watcher since I got my laptop (all internet, all the time), and when I do watch TV I'm usually less than impressed with the commercials. There are a few, however, that make me laugh. And those funny commercials? I go out of my w...

The original TV series of the late 1960's Wild Wild West staring Robert Conrad as James West and Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon has withstood the test of time. I never saw the shows when they were first released. In fact, I saw them for the first tim...

Everyone loves Thurl Ravenscroft! Who didn't grow up with the deep growling voice of Tony the Tiger?  Or loving the Haunted Mansion's Grim, Grinning Ghosts?  Or how about this? Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas (the old cartoon ver...

I've recently gone on a bit of a lens building binge.  Since a friend has been talking about building her lensography, I thought now would be a good time to build mine.  So much easier to hand out one link, don't you think? Now, I need to go...