It's Springtime - What Do you Prep?

Spring - It's all about the garden.  Get it ready.  Plant the seeds.  Mulch.  Fertilize.  It is a busy time. Too busy to prep?  Nahhhhhhh.  Spring also brings a lot of rain.  Rainy days are perfect days to add to your stores.  When it rains, we get busy.  Here is a simple list of different things we make when it is raining.

1. Fire starters
2. Bread dough for freezing
3. Cookie dough
4. Crockpot soups for freezing
5. Make containers to grow in
6. Inventory stores and rotate stock
7. Research skills we don't already have
8. Prep and freeze any bulk in season veggies
9. Make soap and cleaning supplies
10. Knit socks for winter (yarn is cheaper this time of year)

That is a quick list of 10 things to do on a rainy day.  What do you do when it rains?

Thanks for reading.

All Natural Bleach Alternative

I haven't used chlorine bleach in about a decade.  The smell is awful. What it does to the environment is awful.  What is does to your body is awful.  How do you get things white and kill the germs?  



Here is an all natural alternative that is JUST as effective and smells better.


BLEACH ALTERNATIVE

3/4 cup             3% Hydrogen Peroxide
1/4 cup             Lemon Juice
3/4 cup             Baking Soda
7 cups              Water
10-15 drops     Lemon Essential Oil (or 1/4 cup Lemon Zest)

This recipe makes about 1/2 gallon.  It works.  Give it a try and kick that bleach habit.