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.

Friday, June 17, 2011

123. Some Things Never End

There are some things in life that never seem to end.  Dusting is one of those things...I guess cleaning in general.  Inside the house and outside the house cleaning goes on and on and on.  I'm focusing on one event in particular this morning.  I know I've spent a lot of time on the weed abatement issue, but also on that particular list is a really large branch of an old oak tree.  We had quite a wind storm about three weeks ago and the branch let go.  It was actually about half of the tree.  Fortunately, for us and the swing, it fell into the lower meadow.   We talked about it and then pretended it didn't happen until yesterday.  We had been so busy and had made the trip to L.A. and Pomona three times in ten days that the tree just had to wait.  Besides, it's not like someone else is going to deal with it, right?



So yesterday afternoon Bob fired up Bud's chain saw and we started in.  What a job it has turned out to be.  Oak is such wonderful wood for B-B-Qing and Franklin stove fires that we were able to add quite a lot to our stack.  It has been
quite an undertaking and with two days under our belts there is still lots to contend with.  Hopefully we can get the logs up from the meadow in the back of the car.  Using the wheelbarrow would be a chore.




Bob loves his hard hat, face guard, sound suppressing ear phone equipment!  Money well spent!


The Barn Owl box is mounted above the work shop.  Since Bob can't get on his knees, I had to brave two ladders and do the final installation.  He's not a happy camper when I have to do things like that.  I tried not to look down and concentrated on not to forget where I was because it was a long drop down.

I hope we don't have to wait until spring for nesting time to have occupancy!  That would be make us sad.   I'll have to do more reading on the subject.  I only researched the particulars for building the box.  All the articles I read seem to think that they will just find it.  I certainly hope that is the case as we are just so anxious to have new neighbors, especially those of baby bird raising age!

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