Today the water filter guy is here, doing the annual maintenance service on our house system water filter.  I asked him about some issues we’ve been having with our water.  We have a black ring constantly around our toilet bowl, and green stains in our bathtubs and sinks.  Our humidifiers have a large buildup of [...]

The mosquitoes have been particularly bad this season; I suspect it is a result of all of the rain we had a while back.  We’ve been trying to avoid going out during the mosquito feeding hours (sunrise and sunset) but they seem to be bad all day long the past couple of weeks.  One of [...]

I think that exterior shutters give a house a “finished” look.  Similar to a woman putting on a pair of earrings before she goes out of the house.  A house just doesn’t look “done” without shutters.  And the shutters have to be in good shape, or the whole house looks neglected.  Our house needs new shutters.  Larson Shutter [...]

My nephew sent me the link to a website, www.ecogeekliving.com, telling me that he thinks that I would really be interested in the shake flashlight that they sell from the site.  He was right!  The flashlight is an LED light that you shake for one minute, and then you get thirty minutes of light from the [...]

I want to redecorate my spare bathroom.  The redecorating would include buying new shower curtains.  My sister was telling me that she read an article about how a lot of the new shower curtains give off a toxic gas for an entire month after they have been opened!  She emailed me a link about the [...]