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Thursday, August 22, 2013

How To Store Your Garlic, Onions And Shallots So They Can Last For Months

Instructions:
1. Make sure onions, garlic etc are firm and blemish free.
2. Use brown lunch paper bags....
3. Hole punch.
4. Paper clips for holding bags closed.

How to make:
1. Punch the bags. You can do this any way you wish, even randomly all about the upper half of the bags. Typically holes are punched by folding the bag a few times and then punching in a row, spacing the punches an inch or so apart. Another method would be to fold the bag in half lengthwise, punch along one edge, flip the folded bag over and punch along the other edge, approximately 1" between punches. It by no means needs to be perfect, simply punch holes for ventilation. The result is multiple rows of holes.
2. Fill the bag up to half full (just below or at first punched holes), fold over the top, label it and paper clip it to hold the top down."

Monday, August 12, 2013

Homemade Mosquito Repellent

Materials:

15of vanilla extract

10 drops of citronella oil or lemon-eucalyptus oil

1/4 Cup lemon juice

Spray bottle

Directions:

Combine above ingredients in spray bottle. Fill remainder of bottle with water, water/vodka or water/witch hazel mixture.

Spray yourself and any objects or areas you wish to keep mosquito free.

Watch Out For Rip Currents This Summer!

Stay safe while at the beach this summer and avoid any signs of a rip current! This could save your life. This is what a typical rip current looks like from the beach. We have all seen them, we just weren't sure of exactly what it is that we were looking at and so we weren't aware of the danger. Make sure you survey the waves when you arrive at any new beach. When you're watching the waves, if you notice a more flat spot that is always present in the formation of the waves as in the picture, that's a rip current. The water is moving in the opposite direction in that area, so be sure to always stay clear of those areas! It's definitely not a place to spend a calm or relaxing day at the beach, particularly if you had planned on swimming or have small children with you.

If you do happen to get caught up in a current like this, attempt only to swim out of the current, not against it. If you swim either left or right, parallel with the beach, you will eventually swim out of the current. Do not push yourself too hard, and focus primarily on just keeping your head above water and breathing. From there you can spot the beach and swim parallel to it until you are no longer being tugged about. Of course the best way to survive a rip current is to learn to identify them ahead of time and to avoid them entirely.