Use nine: Try softening brushes that are hardened with old, dried-in paint by boiling them in vinegar and let them stand for one hour. Then heat the vinegar and brushes come to a gentle boil. Simmer for 20 minutes. Rinse well, working the softened paint out of the bristles. For extremely heavy paint encrustations, you may need to repeat the process...or head to the hardware store.

Use ten: A little vinegar and salt added to the water you wash leafy green vegetables will float out bugs and kill germs.

Use eleven: Soak or simmer stuck-on food in 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup of vinegar. The food will soften and lift off in a few minutes.

Use twelve: Clean and freshen the garbage disposal by running a tray of ice cubes, with 1/2 cup of vinegar poured over them, through it once a week.

Use thirteen: In a pinch, you can use equal parts of lemon juice and vinegar to clean brass and copper. On difficult areas add a little salt to the mix for some abrasive action.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

114. Nothing Like Your Own Bed!

There really is nothing like your own bed.  Snuggling into your  little nest  with the  perfect weight of
blankets is so restorative.  We rotate our mattress regularly but we've had it so long that I guess each side has that perfect fit.  Falling asleep is really easy now with the sound of the water flowing in the creek across the road.  The frogs have hatched from their eggs that have laid dormant waiting for just the right conditions and have burst into song. It's almost like they have choir director because they sing loudly and then stop on que, dead silence and then in unison start all over again. 

We've been gone for several days attending a long awaited wedding in Arizona.  Sweet Jenny has found the love of her life and the wedding was wonderful.  It is such an exciting event and brings loved ones from far and wide.  We were finally able to put faces to names of spouses and children that we hadn't met yet.  As with really good friends, we picked up where we had left off several years ago and you would swear that we had just seen each other last week.

It turned out that the wedding and festivities were held in the same town, Queen Creek, as our friend, Jill,  so we were blessed with another family reunion!  What a treat!  Jill is the daughter of our long time friend, Jeff Steinmetz.  She and her beautiful daughter, Ashlyn, 17, shared their lovely home with us.  What wonderful hostess' they were!  

The drive to the Phoenix area is about ten hours from our canyon so we decided to break up the trip by staying at the Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in Rialto.  When we were both young we dreamed of staying there, but Wigwam was just too close to home and neither of our parents could justify staying there on our way east on vacation.  It was such fun!  They have recently been restored and were just beautiful!  Our wigwam had a sitting area with a comfy couch and a wide screen television.  The walls are so thick that you couldn't hear a sound from the busy road a stone's throw away.  What a good time we had reaching a
childhood dream!

All in all it was a great time with well wishes to the bride and groom and hugs and kisses around the room.  We are always glad to get away and really glad to get back home.  The PT drove great and it's always good  to have one more thing to checked off the "bucket list!"


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