The Magic Eraser

Mr. Clean "Magic Eraser"...... sigh. It is my new best friend. Have you ever used one? Well, it is just grand I tell ya! Sure, it is good for getting marks off cabinets and walls, but have you ever used it for your tub or shower? Well, let me be the first to tell you (that is if you never have used it for that), it will clean your shower better than a monkey can pick the fleas off its baby! Just spray your cleaner on you shower and wet the eraser and wipe. Notice I didn't say scrub! That is right....the eraser does the elbow work for you! Since, discovering this little beauty's ability, I try to tell everyone I know. Why not make your life easier, too?

Do you have a neat cleaning secret that someone could benefit from?

A Giveaway!!!!!

No, I am not doing a giveaway but one of my favorite blogs is! Coupon Geek is giving a Ball Canning book away! Go over to www.coupongeek.net and enter. You get up to 3 chances to win. But if you win and I don't, you have to let me borrow your book sometime. I promise to share my canned goods! :)

I'm Blogging Again!

This is just a short post to let you know I promise to keep my blog updated often. A very sweet friend inquired about this today and it warmed my heart so that I felt I needed to oblige. Sorry for letting you down. School is ending so I will have more time to take to blog. I hope! So with that, I hope you enjoy what the summer holds for us! Let us know if you want to get together!

Compost

Is this what it is suppose to look like? I really don't know. It's not very pretty or fancy,but I am just looking for a natural way to fertilize my garden and not the county trash pile!
My sweet daddy made the posts for me and gave me the plastic green fence to make it. He even drilled little holes in the posts for me to tie the fence to. He is a good daddy! Next, I loosened the dirt and now I just throw all my veggie and fruit scraps on it. Other decomposing things such as dying plants and leaves will do great in it also. Absolutely no meat and artificial foods, please! I turn the soil twice or more a week. My kids really like to do it, too. They ask if they can go rake the "soup". Cute.
Now this is not sitting in the middle of my yard, although it wouldn't be much of an eye sore as some things in my yard. :) I put it behind my shed out of seeing eyes passing by my house. My neighbors behind me, of course, get to gaze upon this beauty all the time! Lucky them! I should go knock on there doors and ask for them to save their scraps for my natural living! HAHA! Do you think they would do it?
So here is the start of my natural gardening. I think I'll like this way better than using manure. I just hope it gives me the results that I am looking for....of course, I mean, perfect veggies! Now...if I could only figure out a natural way to keep the bugs from eating them! I would have an organic garden! Have any ideas?

Almost Garden Time

AHHHH! This warm weather is teasing me so! I know we are probably just having a short warm spell, but it makes me ache for the time to plant my garden! I can taste the tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, and corn now! Oh!, the excitement!
I've been dreaming of a larger garden this year and had my heart set on one, but after research I've learned that bigger is not better! It's that way for several reasons. It's harder to keep the weeds out and keep the produce picked because of the hot summer days. I read this article (http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/articles/general-view/archive/2009/february/06/learn-and-live-well/)in a magazine I receive in the mail called No Greater Joy Magazine. First, let me say, if you are a parent I highly recommend this magazine! Just visit http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/magazine/ to sign up for their free magazine.
So now my dream is to have a garden like Debbi Pearl's garden. I just read this article a few weeks ago, so I am probably too late to do it like hers but I will be ready come fall. I have even started my own compost for fertilizer!! Pictures and how to do that is coming in the next post.
So I plan to plant more variety of vegetables but the square footage will be the same. So come on April! I'm ready to plant my veggies! Will you have a garden? What will you plant?

My Other Half

Almost 10 years ago, I met this handsome man. Now, he didn't quite look like this on the outside but I will tell you he caught my eye none the less. His blonde dreadlocks, patchwork pants, and bare feet self was sitting on the back row of my church one Sunday I came home to visit from college. Let me tell you, not my typical guy. But, here we are today....married with 3 kids. We'll celebrate our 9th anniversary in a few weeks. It's been a journey, but one that I would take all over again.

Not Me! Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by http://www.mycharmingkids.net/. You can head over to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.



I totally did not try to come up with something to put on this post that I didn't do. I remember what happened last week. I have my head on straight and always remember everything that I don't do! Ahem.



With that, I will have to write down everything I do or should I say not do this week. I just had to play along because I am still very excited about my blog!!!!