Smart Ideas

Kinda long but some really good tips. One day I had a crazy idea, and It’s saved me tons of money (and embarrassment)!

Here’s the big secret to solve all your powder room cleaning crises "DRYER SHEETS". They don’t even have to be new dryer sheets. In fact, used ones from the dryer work even better. I have tried all kinds, they all work as good. No additional cleaner nor tons of elbow grease is necessary, even for the messiest situations!

Dryer sheets removed the ring on my toilet with a gentle swipe and left behind pleasant scent, which is a nice thing in the bathroom. In fact, it worked so well I used separate sheets to clean my toilet and bathtub and grabbed more for the guest bathroom. A third sheet polishes up the faucets and chrome in a snap! The fibers in dryer sheets and the weave create a grime-grabbing scrubbing tool that won’t scratch sinks and tubs. Fabric softener in the sheet make dirt and scum slip right off.

It used to take me about an hour to scrub the bathroom really well. These days I spend about 10 minutes, this is my most favorite trick.

Now instead of throwing those dryer sheets away, I save them after each load of laundry. When it’s time to clean the bathroom, I grab a couple of dryer sheets and my work is soon done!

Can also use to get sticky dust right off of furniture, blinds and baseboards.

Cleans up cooktops and greasy cupboards quickly.

Soak paintbrushes in warm water with a dryer sheet and watch the paint come right off.

Clean dead, icky bugs from the car.

Wipe pet hair off of clothes and furniture.

Run over thread before sewing to keep tangles away. 

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Some More Quotes

 “This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate the eggs, but it doesn’t say how far to separate them.” ~ Gracie Allen
The first Easter baskets were designed as such so as to give it an appearance of a bird's nests.

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. -Robert Flatt

"For a good life, Work like a dog, Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit." ~ George Allen

Spring is when life's alive in everything. ~ Christina Rossetti

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun. ~ K. Gibran

"Spring shows us what God can do to a drab dirty world." ~ Virgil Kraft

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.~Unknown

Every flower of every tomorrow are in the seeds of today. ~ Unknown  

A day without sunshine is like, well, night.

Backup my hard drive. How do I put it in reverse?

Seen it all, done it all, Can't remember most of it. 

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

A fine is a tax for doing wrong.   A tax is a fine for doing well.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you.

 "All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar."

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U.S. Royal Family

[How long before there is a Yankee version of the storming of the Bastille?]

The redistribution of $1.4 billion each year.

What can you buy for $1.4 billion a year? You can buy the most luxurious and costly royal presidency in history.

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.

In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.

Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.

Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”

Perspective: $1.4 billion is equal to spending seven times Mitt Romney’s entire net-worth every year. If Romney had to pay for Barack and Michelle’s lifestyle this year, he would have been bankrupted by the third week in February.

Now, can we please get back to talking about the evil, freeloading rich people, who didn’t build anything and who need to "pay a little bit more."

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Duckies by the Dozen

This is the neatest thing, how lucky for the ducks an ducklings enjoy!

Just about when you're ready to give up on the crazy people in this country, something like this happens, kinda makes ya feel it will be OK.
There are good people out there.

JUST WATCH THIS. THE THREE PEOPLE TALKING ONLY TAKES A SECOND OR SO AND THEN THE VIDEO STARTS, IT IS REALLY
SOMETHING TO SEE.

Enjoy!

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Today I Smiled

Today I smiled, and all at once
Things didn't look so bad.

Today I shared with someone else,
A little bit of hope I had.

 

Today I worked with what I had,
And longed for nothing more,
And what had seemed like only weeds,
Were flowers at my door.

Today I loved a little more,
And complained a little less.
And in the giving of myself,
I forgot my weariness.
~ author unknown ~

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Riverlake Plantation

Riverlake Plantation Courtesy of the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation View of Riverlake Plantation's open two-story gallery Photograph from National Register collection

Riverlake Plantation is one of Pointe Coupee Parish's premiere examples of the Creole architectural influence. During Riverlake's history, the plantation house underwent three major periods of construction covering 1820, 1840 to 45 and 1890, respectively. Set on the west bank of the False River, Riverlake began around 1820 as a well detailed, two-story, galleried structure with brick on the lower story and bousillage construction above (mud and animal hair mixture applied inbetween timbers). The upper story was originally three rooms wide and one room deep, while the lower story consisted of numerous smaller rooms. Around 1840-45, the entire roof structure was replaced, the present dormers added along with the front and rear upper galleries with their enclosed sides and cabinets. After this second period of refurbishment, Riverlake was the typical late Creole plantation house; unlike early Creole plantation homes which were detailed in the Colonial style, Riverlake had Greek Revival details. In the late 19th century, a two-story rear kitchen wing was appended to the 1840-45 rear gallery. Minor changes included replacing earlier Greek Revival columns with Eastlake columns.In the 1890s and early 1910's Bungalow style glass doors replaced the French doors opening onto the upper gallery, and the exposed brick walls were covered with cement throughout the house. Riverlake Plantation also boasts two surviving although deteriorated pigeonniers (structures used by upper-class French for housing pigeons) which are noteworthy, rare features of plantation homes. Riverlake is one of a select group of major Creole raised plantation houses which are Pointe Coupee Parish's largest and oldest buildings. Riverlake is also notable because of its size, and is wider than most traditional plantation houses of its type. Its Creole features include its hall-less, cabinet plan, its heavy hip "umbrella" roof complete with the customary pair of small dormers, and its basic, two-story, open galleried form.

Riverlake is located on Hwy.1 just west of its intersection with Hwy. 416 in Oscar. It is privately owned, and not open to the public. 

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The Cherie Quarters Cabins

Front of Cherie Quarters Cabin, a rare existing slave cabin Courtesy of the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation Side view of one of the cabins Courtesy of the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation

The two single-story slave dwellings, which remain on the historic Riverlake Plantation, are known as the Cherie Quarters Cabins. These buildings are significant because they are rare surviving examples of a once common antebellum building type which has all but disappeared from the state. Standing roughly 400 feet apart, the twin cabins are all that remain of the slave quarters for Riverlake Plantation. The number of cabins on the site during the antebellum period remains unclear but former residents of a thriving African-American community who called the quarters home in the 1930's assert that about 30 cabins existed at that time. Rectangular in plan, each of the two remaining cabins is raised approximately two feet above grade on large brick piers. Each cabin is two rooms wide with a gallery on its façade. The gallery is open to the tin roof, which is pitched from front to back, has gable ends, and is pierced by a central chimney. Both rooms possess front and rear doors, as well as a window on one side. In the antebellum era, each room housed a separate African-American family. The Cherie Quarters Cabins were used as dwellings until fairly recent times, and as a result some alternation has occurred.

Cherie Quarters was the birthplace and childhood home of African-American author Ernest J. Gaines, writer of noted works including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1970), A Gathering of Old Men (1983), and A Lesson Before Dying (1994). Despite their recent use, the age and authenticity of the quarters are uncontested as the timber frame constructions are held together with nails produced between 1830 and 1880. The census schedules of 1860 reveal that there were approximately 1,640 holdings of 50 or more African-American slaves in Louisiana on the eve of the Civil War. This information, along with various other sources, indicates that at one time there must easily have been thousands of slave cabins across the state. Although no comprehensive survey of slave quarters has been undertaken in Louisiana, it is probable that only about 40-50 survive.

The Cherie Quarters Cabins are located half a mile from the intersection of State Hwy. 1 and Major Ln. in Oscar. They are privately owned and not open to the public. 

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