20 Fun Ideas for National Turn Off TV WeekWritten by Deborah Shelton
Publishing Guidelines: Feel free to publish following article in its entirety in your ezine, website, or print newsletter. The resource box must be included with an active link. Please send a courtesy copy of publication in which article appears to: deborah@fiveminuteparent.com Word wrap to 60, (214 words) *************************************************20 Fun Ideas for National Turn Off TV Week By Deborah Shelton National Turn Off Your TV Week is April 21-27 this year. Why not take holiday one step further and turn off computer as well? Here are 20 fun ways your family can make most of this celebration. 1. Read a book. 2. Write a letter-not an email-to a dear friend. 3. Bathe dog. 4. Play a game of Candyland or Chutes and Ladders. 5. Paint each other's faces.
| | Summertime bugs and creepy crawlies.Written by Wes Crystal
Well it is almost that time again. Time to get out garden tools and start planning your next great garden project. It is also that time of year for all those pesky bugs and crawly critters too! You don't have to go on a picnic to discover ants are making themselves a nuisance in your life... and these days; many of us hesitate to use chemicals to get rid of them. Now there is a non-poisonous way to kill ants. I've got a magic formula. Come on, I'll show you. All you need for your magic formula is:2 parts molasses 1 part sugar 1 part dry yeast The molasses and sugar attract ants, and yeast causes them to swell up and explode. So we'll mix it up, and you'll see how easy it is to take care of those ant problems. Now we're using tablespoons as our parts. If you have a big ant colony, you will want to probably use cup fulls. That'll really attract them. Add your molasses, sugar, and yeast powder. Then what you do is just mix it up real well. When you get it mixed, you're ready to go outside and go to work against those ants. Now normally this is a formula that attracts sugar ants, so you'd use it inside, but we don't have any ants inside house. We found some outside here. What you do is just drip a little of this on a card, and then you put it down where ants will be attracted to it. In this case we're going to go down to ant bed, and, as you can see, they're already starting to come out here. And once they eat it, yeast gets inside, it causes them to swell up, and you end up with a whole bunch of dead ants. Incidentally, if you have fire ants, there's a non-toxic way to get rid of them, and that's to use grits. Just pour grits over mound, and when you do that, they will come in and they'll eat grits and it'll cause them to swell up, and they'll explode too.
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