Kitchen and Household Tips

How to Buy the Freshest Bread Possible ~ Since bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday), and each day has a different color twist tie, use this strategy to find fresh bread:
Monday = Blue Twist Tie
Tuesday = Green
Thursday = Red
Friday = White
Saturday = Yellow

So if your shopping day is Tuesday, look for a green twist tie; not white which is Fridays (almost a week old)! The colors are in alphabetical order: Blue - Green - Red - White - Yellow (Monday through Saturday) - minus Wednesdays. 

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Make Your Own Seed Strips when ready to plant, by spreading seeds out in a straight row on a table, spaced the way you want them planted in your garden.  Carefully lower cellophane tape over them, pressing very lightly - just enough to pick up the seeds and not have the tape stick to the table.  Now you have seed strips to plant, with the seed facing up.  Check the seed packet for how much soil to use in covering the seeds.

Door Sticks in Humid Weather ~ Slide a bar of soap along the doorjamb to create a nonstick barrier.

Drawers Don't Open and Close Smoothly ~ Rub a bar of soap on the drawer where it slides to make it glide more easily.

Kitchen Sink Won't Drain ~ To break up grease clogs, pour 1/2 cup of baking soda and 1/2 cup of vinegar down the drain, followed with boiling water.  Try this before calling a plumber or using other measures.

Shower Drain Stopped Up ~ To break up hair and hair conditioner clogs, pour 1/2 baking soda and 1/2 cup vinegar down the drain, then flush with boiling water.  After this procedure, use a plunger on the drain.

A Lightbulb Breaks Off in the Socket ~ Unplug the fixture or turn off power at the main service panel.  Spread open needle-nose pliers inside the broken base and turn counterclockwise to unscrew.  If that doesn't work, cut a raw potato in half, press it into the broken lightbulb, and turn counterclockwise to remove the broken bulb.

Our Creator's Splash of Colorful Fireworks

by Lois Breneman ~ Heart to Heart ~  September, 2019

Our Creator God blends all the colors in our world so beautifully, even when the spring and summer plants He created are fading, dying, and emerging into the new autumn season!

There are touches of golds, oranges, reds, mauves, blues, silvers, and other hues mixed in to replace the green.  He beautifully paints and transforms each leaf before it fades away and drops to the earth to decay and nourish the ground before spring according to His plan.

We have an amazing God who gives us all things to enjoy, including fabulous colors of autumn that He puts on display in a splash of colorful fireworks during this season.  For everything, there is a time and a season.

If your life is in a difficult change of seasons right now just remember that the same God who created you loves you and will indeed make all things beautiful in His time.