I didn’t know about all these home remedies

I learn something new everyday. Today I learned that there are home remedies for fleas, ticks and mosquitoes that will keep them off of your dogs. Go figure. Of course if I mention this to my wife, she will tell me that she already knew it and I will laugh because she probably did. However, I like that I learned it on my own. Did you know that if you put garlic in a dogs food every day, it will keep fleas away from the dog? Black walnut hulls given in pill form from the nutrition store will keep all three away from your pet as well.

I think that is so cool. We have a ceder filled bed for our little dog already, and now I know why my wife bought it. Herbal shampoos can also help with killing and keeping fleas off of your pets as well, without having to pay top dollar for expensive pet shampoos. That is really amazing. You never know what you are going to learn each day and each day never ceases to surprise me. I think it is time to go look up more herbal remedies and see what else I can find that will not only save us money, but keep chemicals out of our house.

YouTube

Okay, YouTube is one of the best things invented on the internet. I have seen so many crazy video’s as well as instructional ones and the music too. Now they have movies and such for free. That is just awesome. I watched a video on how to fix my truck if the water pump goes out. It had step by step instructions, by some guy who was fixing his. After watching that I decided to see what else there was for fixing my truck and found so much that I could practically build one from the bottom up. That is totally cool. The information highway as they call it, is a perfect description.

For now though, I believe I will stick to funny videos and music, but it is nice to know that I can find instructions on stuff as well. Maybe I should make some video’s about gardening. I saw some on there for growing stuff already, why can’t I do it too. I think the wife would really love that. It is a project we can work on together and she can show off to all of her friends. All women love to show off stuff to their friends after all.

Pell Grants

One of the kids has decided to go back to school. This is not the time to be asking parents for money – especially big money like college expenses. But he says that he can get a Pell grant and it won’t cost anything but books and gasoline. I somehow doubt that, but am willing to look into it.

School Reform

One of the hot topics in the news is education reform. I realize our schools are not meeting the needs of the students in today’s world and they are not producing the future employees that tomorrows companies are going to want to hire and pay well. This worries me quite a bit. Today’s children are tomorrows doctors, teachers and auto mechanics. Let’s all make sure we help these children achieve better educational goals.

Bonfire and Homecoming

This weekend is homecoming. We’re having a big bonfire and all kinds of craziness in the name of school spirit. Well, it has to do with spirits alright!

Official end of summer

Well it’s Labor Day and everyone looks at this three day weekend as the official end of summer.  Really it doesn’t become Autumn for about two more weeks but this is probably for most people that have children, their last chance at a beach weekend.  If you don’t have kids in school, then it doesn’t really matter, now does it?

Let the fun begin!!

Well today is the first day of school and I’m sure the teachers will already be looking forward to Friday.  The first week of school usually either goes smoothly or the children are complete monsters because they’re not used to sitting still unless it’s in front of a gaming system.

It won’t take them long to get back into the routine of school again.  I remember when my children were still at home and started school.  It was a great day for my wife and I but the kids left with long faces.  Usually by they had big smiles on their faces when they came home.  Either that or the same miserable look they had that morning.  Oh well, it’s like I explained to them, if you start your day with a good attitude then the day will probably go good but if you don’t, don’t expect to have a good day.

It’s the last weekend before school starts

One things for sure, I’m not going to the beach this weekend.  With it being the last weekend before school starts back, everyone will be headed for the beach for what might be their last visit.  I’m sure that Labor Day weekend will be worse but I’ll just be glad for everything to get back to normal with the children back in school.

There have been too many kids running around unsupervised because the parents have to work but can’t afford someone to watch out for their children.  Sure there are all types of activities they could get involved in like summer camps but that too takes money.  Hopefully the economy will turn around soon and people won’t have to struggle so hard.

Are you donating?

Before you know it, the kids will be back in school.  The problem is that with so many people out of work, there is a real need for ‘School Tools’ donations.  I don’t know if they do that in your area or not but maybe you need to the the one to start something like that.

I know a lot of churches collect items that children need for school and then distribute them to needy children but there is even more need than just one church or two can handle.  If nothing else, find a family you know that is struggling and offer to buy what their child needs for school.  Ask them to allow you the ‘honor’ of helping this child with his education.

Help for the children

I always try to help some of the children in our tribe and this year I saw Zenni Optical on TV!!!  Talk about a blessing because I can get several pairs of $8 Rx eyeglasses for the children before school starts back.  I know several of the children need them too.  All I can say is a big ‘High Five to Zenni Optical for making it possible.

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