Natural Home and Garden Remedys Part 2

Saw a video on this girls. To catch a mouse to let go, tape a empty paper towel roll on end of desk so it can't move. Let it hang over desk or wherever and put a trash can under neath it. Put bait like peanut butter and or cheese on end hanging over desk. Mice love tunnels and it will crawl thru to end and fall out into trash can and can't get out. Take can out to woods or far away and empty it out. Let me know how that works for ya LOL

Well the aplle cider on the wart is making it black so its working or my thumb is going to fall off.

Great JJ! Now go catch a mouse and let me know if that one works lol.

I better not have any mice flowers, I put dcon in garage, attic and basement.

But if I see one I'll give it a try.

Put one tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar in a clean empty baby food jar, fill the jar with water, and set the jar near plants infested with fungus gnats for a few days. Attracted by the sweet vinegar, the gnats fly to the rim of the jar, climb inside,and drown.

Mix one-half cup vodka and 1.5 cups of water in a sixteen ounce trigger-spray bottle and spray on plant leaves in the cool of the day to kill fungus gnats on houseplants. Do not use on delicate plants like African violets. Test the formula on one of the plant's leaves and wait one day to make certain it doesn't burn the leaf.

Apply Vicks VaporRub to your skin to repel gnats. The scent of eucalyptus repels the feisty pests.

If your momma had shoved as much of that stuff up you nose as mine did me, you'd stay far far away from the Vicks Salve. Told Jo if she cheated on me I'd forgive her one time, but if she came to bed smelling like Vicks, I'd leave her.

Jim you are sooo bad.

Jim my mon used it for everthing that ails ya too, even swallowed a tad for a sore throat. Yukkkk. but I find myself looking for it when stuffy noses start.

yup I wore Vicks plenty growing up...Mother's homemade remedies *grin*
didn't mind the Vicks as much as the baking soda in water she made us drink blech.
Funny I don't do any of that to my kids.

Well my kids won't wash out their kids mouths with soap, whats up with that LOL

I never got that, either...

Just lurking around and caught the posts about Vicks Vapo Rub. LOL! I'll never forget being slathered up with that stuff as a child. It must have worked since I'm still alive and kicking.

Yea roybird thats was all that was in our medicine cabinet along with the alka seltzer lol

An;y of you guys ever get a mustard plaster? I don't know what it had in it but I remember Mom wrapping my chest with a piece of flannel. What ever it was got real hot and the next morning your chest would be fire engine red.

Oh Yeah!!! When the Vick's didn't work, my grandmother did the mustard plaster on me. Mom (bless her heart), made her MIL put several layers of flannel and towels on first, as I have really sensitive skin. I don't know how it worked, but it did work. Better and faster than the antibiotics and terpin hydrate that I used in the years after that first bad spell of bronchitis.

Never had that one Jim, Mom would have just put iodine on it lol. Dang that stuff burned!!But grandmother rolled onions up in brown paper and baked, then squeezed juice and gave for congestion.

What about mopping your throat out with mercurcone?

yea that stuff was worse than iodine! And Genson violet for poison oak? Or white shoe polish? Kids walked around looking like rainbows lol

Wow Jim I'm surprised you survived all that...lol

Glad I never had any of that stuff...

Alka seltzer, for sure. Iodine. No mustard plasters, however! I seem to recall some washing substance my mother called "blueing". We used it on ant bites and it turned your skin blue. Maybe that was just her idea. l.o.l. My mom was a "dinner from a box" kind of gal!

Anyone remember SSS Tonic? How about the spring purging with Black Draugh? Come spring there wouldn't be any grass on the path to the out house.

Did you ever catch a chicken off the yard, chop its head off and pick it for Sunday lunch?

You ever ate made at home Ribbon Cane Syrup?

No,No,No, and NO
Sorry Jim I must be too young...giggle

Jim, my mom told me when she was young her mom would buy a chicken for Sunday dinner. They would tie it to the pole in the basement and my mom & her sister would play with it.

Then after it was killed, grandma would give them each a foot to play with. The muscle (I assume) would still be in there and if they pulled it, the claw would open & close.

Smiley, eeew! I hope Lester doesn't hear that!
Jim what's an outhouse? *grin*

I remember a liver tonic that my DGM (Dad's Mom) would give us. I have never tasted anything so foul.... As I was such a scrawney little kid I got double doses and I got them every weekend for the month of May. Yech... Mom was always right there with fast hands slipping me a spoonful of honey after I swallowed both spoons of the tonic and she gave me a peice of honeycomb to chew afterwards to get that taste completly gone, but golly, all I remember is *HOW FOUL* it tasted.

Straight form the mouth of Dr. Oz More tidbits,

For PMS-cashews because they are rich in magnesium

Acne- pepermint, its a natural analgesic---crush and rub on face

Motion Sickness- Ginger--it reduces acid in stomach

Arthritis-cayenne pepper--has capasin which is a local analgesic and also heals wounds

Diabetes--Cinnamon lowers blood sugar naturally and will make the liver more sensitive to insulin

Sun- Exposure for light skin people should not be over 10 minutes at a time.

Just read in the people's pharmacy that swishing sauerkraut juice around in your mouth for a few minutes (and swallowing about a tbsp of the juice) will make canker sores stop hurting immediately, and will help them go away. (if nothing else, it will stop you from thinking about it! blech!)

Also, niacin will help lower cholesterol

I love sauerkraut and weinees one of my fav's!!!

Lynnie, I can't believe even a Yankee City girl doesn't know what an out house is. We always looked forward to the big Sears Roebuck Catalog coming in. Gave us something to look at plus a good supply of paper. Beat corn cobs.

I remember one time my grandpa came to Memphis for a visit. Dad had built a picnic table and one day we had lunch out side. Grandpa was flabbergasted, "What is this world coming to. Eatin outside. Next thing you know they'll be crappin in the house."

ROFLMBO hahaha Jim that's funny!

Wow, your Grandpa was a true visionary Jim....grin

Those Sears pages were too slick for us Jim, we prefered leaves from the woods LOL

One time my cousin and I were off galavanting in the woods when the call of nature hit. At the conclusion of the endevor he reached back and got a handful of leaves. Unfortunately he stripped them off a poison ivy vine. Need I say more.

He had it coming. Once we were sent to get the mail. The mailboxs on the then dirt road were all at the crossroads where the gravel ended. There must have been eight or ten boxes all in a row. When we opened Uncle Fred's box, there was a wedge of X-Lax in it. Advertisement for a new product. Larry then opened all the boxes and got it out of each one. I didn't know what it was, but he did. He told me it was the best chocolate candy you had ever eat. With that he gave it all to me to eat. My how that boy loved me. Laughed his head off when I spent the next two days sittin in the out house.

Painful lessons well remembered....grin Are you and Jo ready for Christmas?

I guess we are ready. Ready for the kids to get here. She is in a baking frenzy. Chocolate, blueberry, pecan, sweet potato pies, coconut cake, plantation cake and I don't know what else. Enough for about 200 people.

How about your bunch? Ready?

Sure we are coming to your house....can smell it..mmmmm

Send a bulldozer after flowers....

I'm never going to be ready if I don't pull the plug on this thing...lol

Jim are we having tomatoes? Its ok I'm use to the greenhouse ones this time of year lol

I have tomato plants at friends in the spa room but no tomatos on them :(

Jim was growing some in hay bales and we were gonna have them for Christmas dinner, but think they bit the dust lol

I remember him saying that... I think he didn't follow the directions......lol