Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Hill the soil around the growing plants. Decide if you want new or mature potatoes. Take the cage apart to harvest the potatoes. Cure mature potatoes before storing. Store your extra potatoes.

Answer: Because potatoes that are exposed to sunlight will produce solanine, it’s important to hill the potatoes. To do this, wait until the plants reach about 6 inches (15 cm), and then add an extra 2 inches (5 cm) of soil to the cage. Continue hilling the potatoes whenever the plants grow an additional 6 inches (15 cm). New potatoes are ones that are harvested before they're fully mature. New potatoes are ready for harvest after the plant stops flowering. Mature potatoes are ones that are left to fully develop, and they’ll be ready to harvest after the foliage dies back and turns brown.  For new potatoes, harvest after the last of the flowers die. For mature potatoes, wait an additional two to three weeks after the foliage dies before harvesting. When your potatoes are ready for harvest, lay a tarp on the ground beside the cage. Use scissors to cut the twine or zip ties holding the cage together. Gently push the cage over onto the tarp to spill the soil and potatoes. Dig through the soil to retrieve all the potatoes that have grown. When you’ve harvested the potatoes, brush off the wire mesh and store it somewhere dry. You can reuse the mesh to make another cage. To extend the shelf life of your potatoes, it’s important to cure them, which means allowing the skins to toughen. Move the potatoes to a cool, dry, and ventilated location to cure for 10 to 14 days. New potatoes shouldn’t be cured, as they should be eaten within a few days of the harvest. Brush the dirt from your cured potatoes with a cloth or soft brush. Fill paper or burlap bags with the cleaned potatoes, and transfer them to a dry, cool, and dark place, such as a root cellar, for long-term storage.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Preheat the oven. Make the dough. Make the straws. Cook the straws.

Answer: For this recipe, you need to preheat the oven at 350 degrees. Pull out a flat baking sheet and spray with nonstick spray. Set the pan aside. Take the stale bread and crumble it in a medium bowl. Stir in the flour, cayenne pepper, and salt. Pour in the milk. It should start to feel like dough. Mix in the cheese. Knead the dough until the cheese is well mixed in.  Since ingredients were rationed in the war, the amount of fresh flour is minimal. The use of stale bread allowed every resource to be used for something. If the mixture is too dry, add in a little milk at a time to thin it out. Roll the dough until it is about a 1⁄4 inch (0.6 cm) thick. Cut the dough into strips that are 6 inches (15.2 cm) long and a 1/2 inch wide. You may need to dust your work surface with flour so the dough doesn't stick to it. Place the straws in the oven. Cook for 20 minutes. Remove them from the oven and let them cool before serving.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Study your personality. Figure out why you want to stop being a loner. Understand the importance of social interaction. Understand the importance of developing people skills. Assess your circumstances. Limit your time spent online.

Answer: If you're reading this, it's probably because you're not completely happy with your circumstances, you're feeling isolated, or you'd like to have an easier time getting out and making friends. Even so, it will help to try to figure out if you are a loner or if you're experiencing loneliness.  People who describe themselves as loners typically prefer to spend a lot of time alone, are often exhausted by interacting with others, and usually aren't bothered by being with themselves. There's nothing wrong with being a loner if that's just how you are and if you're fine with it!  This is different from being lonely, when you actually crave interaction with other people, and either struggle or aren't able to make connections with others. Spend some time thinking about why it's important to you to break out of your shell. Are you unsatisfied with your situation and would like to start talking to people and doing things with them? Or are you feeling pressure from other people to change your habits? Realize that some people just don't need a lot of social interaction to be content, and that you don't have to give in to people who think you “should” be a certain way or that you “should” like to go out all the time. While you should never feel as though you must change yourself to conform to an idea of what is “normal,” you should understand that everyone needs some degree of human connection. Those who are truly isolated or lonely (we can be lonely even when we're surrounded by people!) are more prone to depression and other potentially serious health problems, so it's important for even content introverts to spend time with other people. Maybe you only have one or two good friends, or are happy spending time with yourself or your pets. Even so, it's important that you develop the “soft skills” of being able to strike up conversations with other people, participate in small talk, and function in social situations. Your ability to get or keep a job often depends upon you having minimally decent people skills, so you need to spend some time learning how to be comfortable around other people. If you've decided that it's important that you stop being such a loner, you'll need to come up with a plan. Before you can do that, you'll need to study your current situation: why are you so isolated? If you can pinpoint the likely cause for your isolation, you'll know where to start when trying to get out more.  For example, have you just moved to a new town or started a new job? Are you a new college student on a campus far from home? Do you work from home and thus don't have to talk to people face-to-face on a regular basis? If face-to-face conversations are hard for you, or if you don't have a lot of opportunities to interact with people in real life, it can be very tempting to strike up on-line friendships. By itself, this is not a bad thing, and you can develop some important conversational skills and explore your interests with like-minded people. Nonetheless, talking through a keyboard is not the same as being in close physical proximity to people, and you can still find yourself feeling lonely and isolated if you spend too much time on the computer or your phone. Make it a goal to start to broaden your interactions.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Set a time to wake up. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Answer:
Make sure that the whole family agrees with it. That way, when it turns (for example 7:00) everyone is prepared to get up. If you get up earlier than this, have some breakfast, go to the washroom, get ready so that you actually look OK on video. If you know you are going to be videotaped in the morning, prepare your best set of PJ's. You don't want everybody to remember you wearing that raggedy old t-shirt and a pair of shorts on Christmas morning, do you? Don't forget to brush your hair in the morning before galloping downstairs!