May 10, 2011 | Pest Control
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There are more
insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
- Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth’s food crop.
- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon…YUM!
- In a survey conducted on mosquitoes, it was noticed that mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
May 6, 2011 | Blog, Community News
Isn’t it fun to find out that you can use an everyday household item for more than one thing? I was glad to know that I could use my coffee filters for many other household chores. Check it out!
1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.
2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome… Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.
3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.
4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
10 Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.
11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
12. Use strips of coffee filters to wax eyebrows.
13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them.. It soaks out all the grease.
14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great “razor nick fixers.”
15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics.
16. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.
17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.
18. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.
19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.
20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.. Saves on having
extra bowls to wash.
21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.
22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.
23. Use them to sprout seeds. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a zip-lockplastic bag until they sprout.
24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put
the coffee filters in phone book..
25. Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc.
And of course…use them to make coffee!!
May 4, 2011 | Community/Events
The 14th Annual Athens Maternity and Baby Fair
Saturday, July 30, 2011
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
at The Classic Center
*FREE ADMISSION*
Visit online for details: http://www.maternityandbabyfair.com/
The 14th Annual Athens Maternity and Baby Fair is a “free, fun, family event for everyone with a baby/young child in their life now or in the future – parents, expecting parents, grandparents, children, and friends! The event provides an opportunity for interested individuals and families to learn about maternal/child community resources. The event features educational sessions, retailers selling products, health institutions, social service agencies and other community organizations exhibiting, children’s activities, and Silent Auction.”
