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LEMON CLEANING

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | Our Best Advice | No Comments

LEMON JUICE - Lemons

Lemon Art Car

Lemon juice is a great natural substance to use for household cleaning. We are big proponents of natural cleaning products so if you have not yet switched to incorporate more of them please experiment with the BIG THREE: Baking Soda, Vinegar, Lemon Juice. These are the perfect products to clean your home.

My favorite use for lemons (other then drinking it!) is the rind, which I use for cooking and cleaning. When you’re done with extracting the juice, one-half of a lemon peel put through your garbage disposal releases the wonderful essential oils trapped in its rind. This will freshen your drain and sink as many of you already know. If you are a fresh orange juice person, you can substitute orange peels with the same wonderful aroma releasing results. Lemon juice will also easily dissolve soap scum, and with a little elbow grease, eliminate hard water deposits.

Lemons Vintage Poster

Lemon is also one of the strongest food-acids to use against household bacteria. You can use it effectively as a great substance to clean and shine brass and copper. It can be mixed with vinegar and baking soda to make cleaning pastes, which you can use in various applications throughout the house and laundry. For using a lemon directly, just cut it in half and sprinkle baking soda on the cut section. Use this lemon to hold easily and scrub dishes, surfaces, and stains. Add more baking soda as needed. You can also mix 1 cup olive oil with ½ cup lemon juice and have an old recipe for furniture polish that works well on hardwood furniture. Lemon Juice is also great to bath in. Two lemons and 1 bag of aluminum free baking soda added to 1 cup of epsom salts is very relaxing and healing. It is also a terrific acid to use on your foot heels to keep them soft and bleached.

Lemons are a great addition to your garden, or give a lemon tree which makes a deliciously wonderful gift, and comes in dwarf varieties if you are limited in space. There cannot be enough said about the benefits of this fruit.

We grow a VARIETY of lemons in our garden and enjoy them all year (with our blessed Southern California weather). One good FRUIT deserves another!
Lemon is like a precious treasure, the more you use it the more you discover its value. Mother Nature gave us lemons, and as the old saying goes, it is up to us to make LEMONADE!
Share these TIPS with friends, and send us your HOUSEHOLD CLEANING TIPS for lemon juice. We’ll add them to ours.
As an advocate of Mother Nature, I believe true happiness can be found in a garden along with other miracles. Take LEMONS to work. My Grandmother used to say lemon water is good for you, helps clean the blood, and she lived to 96 in fantastic health. ENJOY LEMONS!

HAVE A HAPPY LEMONY SUMMER!

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OBAMA ON FATHERS DAY

Friday, June 19th, 2009 | Our Best Advice | No Comments

PRESIDENT and DAD BARACK OBAMA with daughters MALIA and SASHA

According to reports from Washington ‘Barack Obama is blocking out nearly an entire afternoon (June 19, 2009) to promote the importance of being a good dad as a national priority. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file). The report adds that the emphasis on responsible fatherhood is personal for Obama. When he was a presidential candidate he rebuked absentee dads, particularly those in his own black community, for acting like boys and putting their kids at risk. Now one of the world’s most famous fathers has a presidential megaphone. The day’s events were intended to kick off a White House effort on fatherhood and mentoring’ We cheer President Obama for his ongoing committed efforts to inspire and engage on issues involving challenges facing families and divorced parents with children. This President believes it’s important to lead by example, and to do something about these matters calling for Dads to “Step Up” in taking responsibility for their children and family values.

It is common for presidents in our country to celebrate fatherhood, particularly heading into a Father’s Day weekend. Obama is looking for media coverage on this topic that otherwise might not get prominent attention during times of great change as the world is currently undergoing. The report states that Obama also recorded a video to be shown during Saturday’s Rally for Responsible Fatherhood on the National Mall. An estimated 24 million children are growing up with absent fathers, and a disproportionate number of them are African-American. Those children are at higher risk of falling into lives of poverty and crime and many become parents themselves in their teenage years. Last year we saw the President bemoan these trends, in a moving speech held at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. He has spoken about this issue many times as he continues to pursue this important topic to broaden the conversation, and seek out programs to assist fathers return to this critical role in our society. His mantra of “responsibility starts at home” sums it up not just for DADS, as a President, and man but on behalf of the children who are left with the hurt and harm of being left fatherless. The White House is not expected to unveil any new public policy, but for it to be part of th overall effort to figure out how the federal government can support or adopt programs, that help fathers and at-risk children succeed. See more on FATHERS DAY below, and to all you DADS out there: HAPPY FATHERS DAY !

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OBAMA ON FATHERS DAY

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