A good friend and I perform an annual gift exchange, where we purchase each other the least suitable present imaginable. This year my friend received merkin underpants and I unwrapped "The Conservative Revolution". I congratulated her on winning this round, and threw the book in my drawer ne'er to be seen again.

These are excellent gardening shears that work really well. This pack contains 2 shears, the smaller one is for the leaves and another bigger one for the branches. The pair comes very sharp and the handle has a pretty good grip. These are comfortable to use and very reliable when I find myself going into my garden.

This was a shorter but enjoyable read by Lauren Shepherd. The interested sparks are immediately detectable when Amelia meets William. Amelia is an overworked Regional Manager of a major restaurant chain and William will be redesigning a portion of her restaurant. They both are interested in each other right away. William however believes in domestic discipline and this is a new thing for Amelia. It makes you wonder if the ds will be a deal breaker. I recommend this short novel. It is a great read and quite entertaining.

One of the worst product lines I ever purchased, another has been celebrity trying to cash in on past fame, touting an inferior product that actually has no benefits. I would rate this product zero.

I tried a halogen oven, it failed in just weeks! This one is pure infrared, much better design, more temperature range, sensible timer controls. In the 3 months that I've owned this one, it has performed very well. The high-profile advantage of this configuration oven is that one does not have to dig into a deep 350 degree glass bowl (read HOT!!, a real finger/hand burner!) to attend to what is being cooked. The heating element and the oven 'walls' screw together, becoming one piece that the cook lifts off of the base, exposing the food, making it oh so easy to turn over, toss, serve, whatever. I think it is a great addition to my kitchen toys. Excellent for slow cooking rubbed spare ribs in a baking bag, at about 225F, for 3 or 4 hours. I use it often for low-fat potato wedges: put raw potato wedges into a freezer bag, (*or a vacuum marinator!) with some oil/vinegar, sliced garlic and smashed rosemary, salt n pepper. Zip it up, leave it in the fridge for a day or two, then drain and spread the wedges in your NuWave oven, at highest temperature for about 20 minutes. You'll be in love! *if you use a vacuum marinator, leave the potatoes in it for not more than one hour, drain and bake.

These are really quality trucks. My grandson Luke has many of them, but Tristan really wanted one. He likes the fact he got two vehicles - one to do the hauling and the other to haul.