You can prepare your own natural drain cleaner using items from your kitchen and save yourself some money as well as avoid having aggravating chemicals that need to be locked away out of reach of children. Most commercial drain cleaners use sodium hydroxide (also known as caustic soda or lye) as their active ingredient. This [...]
I own a little property, just under an acre, on a little island in the Pacific Northwest. It’s only accessible by water and there is no building on it…yet. The dream is that it will one day be my writing retreat or a family vacation home…and for that I will need a building. I’ve done some research, [...]
Whether it’s pets, kids, sports equipment, or a partner with a particular love of very ripe cheese (as in my case), there are times when your home could probably use an aroma makeover. There are endless air freshener products on the market and they are becoming more and more sophisticated. Yet, many of them contain [...]
Do you have eco friendly windows? Whether you’re in the market for new windows or you have older ones, there are a lot of things you can do to make sure that your windows are easy on the environment. It doesn’t have to cost a lot either. The connection between windows and the environment is [...]
So you head to the grocery store armed with your reusable shopping bags, but standing in the fresh produce section the only bag options seem to be of the clear plastic variety. Faced with a dilemma, you don’t really want to wrap your organic fruits and veggies in bird and sea turtle-choking plastic. Then again, [...]