I have been told that it is not possible to get all traces of milk and bacteria out of a milk jug, so you should never, ever use it for long-term storage of drinking water (like in emergency supplies). That said, I suppose that if you've washed it thoroughly, it's *probably* safe to use for preparing drinks for immediate use, or for storing dry foods like beans. I wouldn't store powdered milk in it, though, or anything powdered or granulated, just to be safe. ... View related article.
I have used a disposable foam paint brush to paint RoundUp on weeds among my flowers. I have not observed any damage to adjacent plants, although perhaps I was lucky. ... View related article.
We brown the ground beef, drain it well, chill it, spread it out on a cookie sheet to freeze, then bag it. That way we can take out a little bit for a personal-sized pizza, or a lot for a hamburger casserole.
One thing I've learned is not to overcook it at this stage - just break it up and get it browned. It will finish cooking in the dish you're preparing, or when you reheat it to add to something like tacos. ... View related article.
Oooh, that's sneaky - I love it! And Shirleyamh is absolutely right: there comes a time when you have to let your child play by himself, and come to you for help, or to show off, or whatever and often, when that stage is reached, the kid will still come running at the ring of the phone or the sound of your voice.
As for instilling good manners, that's what this is doing, even if it's going about it a little oddly. If your child is typical, you're teaching him that he doesn't want to interrupt you on the phone...and isn't that better than scolding? ... View related article.
I keep a pasteboard box (cereal, soda pack, etc) handy in the kitchen; when I empty a smaller box, I flatten it and put it in there. When it's packed full, I take it to the recycling dump and just toss it in. Another cereal box holds the weekly ads (we don't subscribe to a newspaper, so we only need to recycle the free-distribution ads).
I have a pegboard for hanging kitchen tools, and I hang grocery bags from lower hooks to collect and separate aluminum and steel. Milk jugs go into a large kitchen trash bag on the floor beneath them. ... View related article.
Solid foods like cheddar cheese, dry foods like nuts are fine. You will probably be required to eat or throw out soft foods like pudding, or anything containing liquid like canned fruit, even if they're sealed in the original can or carton. Not sure about applesauce, or drained canned fruit, but I wouldn't try it.
I once downed almost a pint of leftover ice cream while waiting in a lo-o-ong, slow line - couldn't have taken it on board anyhow, it would have melted, so I just savored it! ^_^ ... View related article.
I don't believe the "tomato tree" is related to tomatoes, it just has similar fruit. There is absolutely no reason why you can't grow almost any variety of real tomatoes in a pot, much easier than a tomato tree; indeed, tomatoes are a favorite for container gardening.
For guidance, may I recommend The Tasteful Garden (tastefulgarden.com). My daughter ordered their container gardening equipment and starter plants - tomatoes and herbs - and was delighted with her first harvest last year. She discovered another advantage to container gardening: if you planted in the wrong place (not enough sun, etc), just move it! ... View related article.
Thistles, eh? When I read the problem I immediately thought of sand burrs, a creeping fine-leaved plant with dainty little yellow flowers and vicious thorny seed pods - quite the opposite of a showy, three-foot thistle! But whatever kind of thorny weed you have, you have a choice of remedies, depending on how much time you have and the size of your yard.
Assuming that your yard is grass, which you want to keep, and the problem plant is not a kind of grass, the easiest solution is broadleaf weed killer.
If your yard is completely infested and you have little or no grass, it might be simplest to kill the whole yard - either with general vegetation killer like Round Up, or by smothering it with layers of dirt, manure, newspaper layers, old carpet, whatever it takes to kill it, then start over.
Where you don't have a heavy infestation (yet), you can either spot-spray with weed killer, or, if you don't want to use poison, get out there with the weeder and pull each one of them. (Hacking them off at the ground will probably only cause them to spread. If it's a thick root and you can't get it all, maybe some vinegar or boiling water poured on each root will discourage it.) Or maybe you can find a neighborhood teenager who loves being out in the yard and loves earning money too, who can help you do it.
I spent a couple of summers hand-pulling our sand burrs and got them pretty well licked, but you have to be ever vigilant - don't let a week go by, and especially don't let a summer go by without cleaning them out, or you'll be back where you started. ... View related article.
I was brought up to treasure books; I would never use a paperclip or a thick (such as crocheted) bookmark in a book I cared anything about (including library books).
What I do is cut small pieces of printer paper (up to 1" by 3" or so) and keep a supply in my reading area. That's small enough to stay put, but big enough not to get lost. I print up coupons for the grocery store, and find the margins around the coupons are just the right size.
In addition, since my husband and I are often reading the same book, I color one end of each bookmark with pink highlighter, and the other end with blue, so we can tell which of us is where in the book. I used to use bits of colored paper, but they're in short supply; besides, this way, no matter how low we run on bookmarks, there's one for either of us! (And we do run out - they wear out, get left lying around, or even get left in books or magazines that we were "going to get back to"!) ... View related article.
There's more than one type of primer. For old wood that has mildew on it, there's blocking primer: nothing comes through it, not mildew, not bold colors, nothing. For painting over old oil based paint, there's bonding primer: it bonds tenaciously to anything - slick surfaces, gritty surfaces, anything. You may have best luck with the bonding primer in this situation.
Probably every paint line has primers - I got our bonding primer from Sherwin Williams - but the contractor who worked on our house generally uses Kilz mildew blocker for repairs and renovations. ... View related article.
