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, June 28, 2011

126. Get Up, Get Out and Have a Little Fun!

What a great weekend we had thanks in large part to our good friends Polly and Phil.  We live an hour apart so we usually have sleep overs when we get together, which makes things really relaxed.  Laughter and good food always abound and usually accompanied with a little vino.  

This time we spent Saturday afternoon and evening at a "Willie Nelson Throw-down Tour."  You don't often get to see a Living Legend sing, especially at a venue like the Pozo Saloon, not a concert hall or convention center.  It's way out in the country in a most beautiful tree filled setting, essentially a pasture.  The crowd couldn't have had better manners.  Oh there was the occasional tipsy frolicker and one or two that we took bets on as to when they would simply dissolve in a heap.  But other than that the whole day went without a hitch. 

There were three stages and probably twenty entertainers whose sets rolled along seamlessly through the afternoon and evening.  The roadies quietly and systematically set up and tore down each entertainers equipment and then as the evening wore on did the same with the stages.  It was like a ballet, so much so that you had to really pay attention to see it all happen.
Please go to their site and see the fabulous pictures of their concert area photos. 

The Saloon was built in 1858 and Willie should have felt right at home because it is very reminiscent of Luckenbach, Texas, a favorite watering hole way out of town in the Hill Country.  It used to be a post office and saloon now it's just the saloon since the post office closed and everybody who is any body has played at Luckenbach.  







Sunday morning, after a sumptuous breakfast,  Polly and Phil's beautiful granddaughter, Kira, came over to entertain us with her wonderful slides of her semester abroad experience in AFRICA!  Tanzania and Kenya were her destinations and what an experience she had!  We put in our request for copies of our favorite photos.  One in particular stole our hearts of Mt. Kilimanjaro in clouds with a small herd of giraffe in the foreground.  Amazing!  She was kind enough to bring us sand from both areas, which, of course, pleases us no end.  As if that wasn't enough, Kira presented me with a beaded necklace made by a Masai woman.  I hadn't even made it home before a young man at Trader Joe's said "Wow, beautiful necklace!"  I said casually, "A gift from AFRICA!"

After such a good weekend, all I can say is "Get up, get out and have a little FUN!"


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