I like to clear cooking smells after dinner with a scented soy wax melt in the candle warmer I keep in the kitchen. While Husband is fantastic about giving me eco friendly wax warmer melts (affiliate links for your convenience) as gifts, I want to switch up the scents in my collection (thanks Honey!) I decided to burn a soy candle and wouldn't you know it, all but one were spent.
I spent a rainy Saturday morning making my old spent candles into new soy candles. It didn't take very long at all and I got a fancy two toned candle out of the deal because I had more purple wax than I felt comfortable pouring into that candle jar.
I have a like – hate relationship with plastic cling wrap. I like on those
rare occasions that it actually and fully sticks to a container to keep food
fresh. I also hate it most of the time because, no matter what type or brand, it
never sticks, food dries out or gets freezer burn, and I end up tossing the
spoiled food and the plastic wrap in the trash.
So it was no great stretch for me to find a way to keep food fresh without
plastic wrap. Once I started using my Swiss Army knife of easy alternatives, I
noticed we also reduced the amount of weekly household trash by quite a bit.
Yay!
There is an issue with the French drain in my side yard which leaves my side yard is wet and spongy days after it rains. I installed a rain barrel as a temporary fix until I can get my Homeowner’s Association to repair the poor drainage problem. Not to mention being able to capture and use rainwater to water our flowerbeds. A quick drainage fix, free plant water, and being green – high fives all around.
Originally I planned to hook a soaker hose up to the rain barrel as a lower waste way to water the front yard and garden but it didn’t work as well as I hoped because the rain barrel water pressure was practically nil. Turns out the height of your rain barrel determines how much water pressure flows from it and not what I thought – the amount of water in the rain catch system.
How to Increase Rain Barrel Water Pressure the Quick and Easy Way