Another Old Fashioned Remedy – Using Beer, Cinnamon & Black Pepper!

Since I’ve been stuck in the home on my Coronavirus Blues vacation, I have a lot of time on my hands to rummage through things I have collected over the years.  Old tidbits of news, letters, notes, books and those oddities you just can’t let go of.

For example, I’ve found notes my mother have written to me on just about every subject under the sun even beer, cinnamon and black pepper. Yes, there are many uses for these three items. Let’s look at what you can do with beer first.

Did you know that beer us made up of ingredients that can enrich your garden soil? Yes, it is. Just mix a several tablespoons of beer into your garden soil, do this by mixing the beer into water that you pour onto your soil. This will give your plants a boost. Also adding beer to your compost starter has boosting benefits too, the yeast and sugar in beer adds beneficial bacteria to compose.

Do you have a problem with bees in your garden or yard?  You can create a bee trap by punching a series of small holes (big enough for a bee to get in about 3/8-inch-wide) in a lid of an old glass jar. The fill the glass jar with one half beer, screw on the top and place the jar in the yard where you’ve seen bees. The bees will be attracted to the beer, crawl into the hole and can’t get out.

Having a backyard party and want to eliminate bees? Just place a few open cans around the perimeter of your yard. And woola! Bees be gone!

Don’t you just love the smell of Cinnamon?  Bet you didn’t know your neighbors’ cat and dogs don’t. Yup!  Do you want to keep your neighbors’ cat or dog out of your yard?  Just sprinkle some cinnamon around the perimeter of your yard every week.

And if you love the great smell of Cinnamon, freshen up you home with Cinnamon, by putting Cinnamon sticks in your vacuum bag before vacuuming.

Black pepper also works to keep neighborhood dogs and cats out of your yard. And it works to keep away rabbits, squirrels and raccoons away.  So, if raccoons are bothering your garbage cans just sprinkle black pepper around your garbage cans to keep them out.

Black pepper also works to keep away ants.

There you have it. Old fashioned remedies for using beer, cinnamon, and black pepper.  I bet you’ll never look at these three items the same again.

 

 

Old Fashioned Remedies that still work today! Use Steam to Clear Sinus!

My mother used to have a ton of old-fashioned remedies. I remember many of them well to this day. She had remedies for acne, stomach cramps, even diarrhea.

One of her best ones was what to do, when you were suffering from seasonal hay fever, or a stuffy nose from a head cold.

My mother would boil a pot of water on the stove and then pour the hot water carefully into an extra-large bowl, placed safely on a table.  She would then drop in a few drops of eucalyptus oil, or pine oil or even tea tree oil into the bowl, placed on the table.  Next she would then use an extra-large dry towel, that she would then drape over the head of the congested person and have them lean their face over the bowl of water at least 12 inches away from it, being “very careful not to burn themselves on the hot bowl and have them breathe through their nose.

Not only was this technique great from relieving a stuffy nose or hay fever it was also a great way to get a facial. 

Yes, it would seem “Mother” was way ahead of her time and she did know a thing or two.  Whether you need to clear your sinuses or get a great facial this Mother knows best remedy is a must try.

 

 

Staying Fit/Exercising During Coronavirus Vacation!

vacation we’ve got time. So, let’s get started.

It has been proven that regular exercise can reduce health problems, even chronic pain, and stress.

First off, check with your doctor to make sure it is safe for you to start exercising. After that begin your exercise routine with clear, achievable goals. What are clear achievable goals?  Well if you have never exercise before, start with the basic.  Walking. Yes, walking is a exercise and it’s achievable.

Walking as exercise.

Start by walking around the block, down the street to a familiar place maybe your corner store, or some other safe place and back.

If you can’t walk outside or want to stay safe inside consider going to YouTube on your cell phone, table, or TV.  There are a number of 15-minute beginning walking videos out there on YouTube.

Here is a video on the benefits of walking that will explain to you what will happen once you start walking your body each day by five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, and so on. You get my point. Check it out here.  https://youtu.be/A7vk13pOn4s

 

Now, a little about my personal walking experience. I started out over a year ago doing “Walk At Home by Leslie Sansone, on YouTube.” I started with her ten-minute walk. After three weeks I worked up to her twenty-minute walk and now I do her fast thirty-minute walk every other day and ride my stationary bike five miles the other days.

So, what am I saying? Walking is exercise and it’s doable. The benefits are worth trying it out. So, I’m saying if you have ten-minutes each day and you don’t want to leave the house, especially since Coronavirus, why not start with a Walk At Home by Leslie Sansone, on YouTube.  Here are a couple of her videos to try https://youtu.be/tVpUCkMLgms

https://youtu.be/TJLKgWsS7vw

Now, let’s get started getting healthy walking and getting us some Happy while we wait out our coronavirus vacation. 

Let’s “Self” Pamper Ourselves During Our Coronavirus Vacation!

Let’s “Self” Pamper Ourselves During Our Coronavirus Vacation!

Remember my earlier article about having a lot of time on our hands during our Coronavirus Blues vacation? Well, I had a thought… Wait for it!  Here it comes.

Why not do some self-pampering, since we cannot go to the nail salon, why not pamper our hands and nails at home?

Our hands are in and out of water constantly with our need to now wash our hands after just about everything we do. As we are all coming to learn hand sanitizers have a lot of alcohol and can make hands dry and chapped.   Even if you buy the hand sanitizer with moisturizer, your hands may still become dry and chapped.

Leading doctors say if you have really dry hands you should wear gloves when doing dishes or cleaning.

Let’s suppose we’ve done all of that what next?

Well, my grandmother and mother would say I should put Vaseline on my hands, and cover them with gloves, when I go to bed or have some free time in the day. And guess what their remedy works.

In her autobiography “Doris Day: Her Own Story,” Doris Day said that once a month she would cover her body with Vaseline before she went to bed to soften her skin. She would wear gloves, sock and pajamas that would make sure the Vaseline stayed on her skin and didn't get all over her bed.

So what’s my self-pampering tip for hands (and feet for those of us who need it.) is to put some Vaseline on your hands, giving extra care and attention to your cuticles and then cover your hands with gloves.  Before you know it

Your hands will be back to being soft.

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How to Stay Optimistic During Coronavirus Blues!

Have you ever heard staying optimistic can improve your health? Well studies show that it can. Don’t believe me? Just “Google” it. With that said the good news is that studies have proven that when you stay optimistic you can make your immune system stronger, thus decreasing your chance at getting a disease and you can even improve your health and help yourself live longer.

So, how do you become optimistic? Well, just like most things, like learning to play a piano, or playing cards, or playing chess, just like you can learn anyone of those things to do, you can learn, to be optimistic.

How do you do this? Well, of course, you can take the self-help #Free approached and google technics on how to become optimistic, online, or you can read a book. One book that comes to mind is "Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life" by Dr. Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist.

But if you are still straddling the fence with the self-help thing, just visit one of the many sites out there on the world wide web, with articles on the subject of how to become optimistic, one that I like can be found at this link. https://www.positivityblog.com/how-to-stay-positive/

And finally, most importantly always find the optimistic viewpoint in every negative situation., this will always be your first step on learning how to stay optimistic in any situation.

Now that you know, start today on staying optimistic during the Coronavirus Blues. We can and will make it through this.

Stress Management Tips For The Coronavirus Blues!

During our Coronavirus Vacation we must modify our behavior to make it easier to get through the Coronavirus Blues. Here are a few tips to help you do so.

1. When the Coronavirus Blues hit you, you need to do some positive talk, to yourself. What is positive talk? Well it’s when you say something “positive” to yourself to make yourself feel better.

Positive self-talk has been defined as when you make yourself feel good about yourself and the things that are going on in your life. It's like having an optimistic voice in your head that always looks on the bright side.

2. Visualize your positive results. When something happens that you don’t want to happen instead of holding on to it, stop and take 60 seconds to visualize what you do want and focus on that positive thought.

3. Take Time out. When bad thoughts appear take time out to make yourself feel important. Feel like you matter. This will aid in helping you change the outlook or outcome of something negative.

4. Exercise. Doing this takes your mind off the bad thought and it relieves tension. Exercising can also release endorphins that can help your well-being.

5. Don’t dwell in the past. Let go of past hurts that are holding you back from living in the moment and staying positive.

Some examples of positive self-talk: Saying things to yourself like “There’s nothing I can’t do, nothing I can have, nothing I can’t be! I am far more than I think I am. I am divinely connected with the infinite power of the universe. I can do it. I’m good enough just as I am. If I want to, I can, it’s okay if I make a mistake. It doesn’t matter if I make a mistake. Etc. Etc.

Benefits of positive self-talk one, is that it can give y ou a more optimistic outlook on life and two, it has other health benefits, including increased vitality. greater life satisfaction. improved immune function. Try some of these tips the next time the Coronavirus Blues slips up beside you and try and make your day. hour, or minute a bad one. Only you can banish the Coronavirus Blues and get happy!

Come on let’s all get happy!

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Olive Oil

Olive Oil My mother knew the benefits of using natural products like Olive Oil, long before I did. So, when my rose bushes recently started showing signs of the pesky nasty scale insects. I decided to use a remedy my Mother had told me about. So, I grab a new .99 cent spray bottle from the Dollar store and filed it with about one third the way with good old fashion Olive Oil and the rest with distilled water. I than proceeded to spray my rose bushes and woola! The pesky bugs were gone. Did you know Olive Oil has many uses? Olive Oil can be used to protect the leaves of outside plants, as well as shining the leaves of inside plants. In the kitchen you can use Olive Oil to seasoning cast-iron cookware, wooden cutting boards, or bowls or wooden cooking spoons. Got a baseball player in your house? You can use Olive Oil to revitalize leather baseball gloves. Personal Care: Yes, Olive Oil is great for personal care. Use it to restore dry hands and feet. Aching back muscles. Soak a small towel in warm water and place in microwave for 20 to 30 seconds. Rub Olive Oil on back ache and place warmed towel over the Olive Oil for a warm relief. So, the value of this story, of course it’s Olive Oil a product that been used in hundreds of recipes and been around for hundreds of years, is still a fantastic product you can use today.

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Have you got the Coronavirus Blues?

In the good old days, the “Blues” where just the blues. Back then you might have been blue because your man or woman left you. Or because the Eagle flew in on Monday and you were broke until payday rolled around on Friday. You get my point. Well having the Coronavirus Blues is way different and the reason why is because now you finally got a chance to have some time off from work. But you didn’t ask for it. So, really this ain’t no regular vacation. This vacation is different, and I mean real different. With the Coronavirus Blues vacation, yes you got a lot of time on your hands, but you can’t enjoy it. Really you can’t. For example, a few things you can’t do on your Coronavirus vacation are: You can’t go to the beauty salon and get yourself a full complete makeover to make yourself feel better, because the beauty salon, ain’t open.

Then you thought about working on getting in shape and losing a few pounds but guess what. Yup! The gym is closed. Then you think about spending some money, (really means using your credit card to cheer you up) by treating yourself to some Mall Therapy, but the shopping centers are all closed.

Hmmmm… How about finally taking time to go to Wine Country and do some much needed wine tasting. Uh-Oh! No can do. You can’t travel during Coronavirus. Not to mention you just might be really broke, since the Eagle is down! Ain’t no payday coming on Friday.

Yes, the world looks really gray and miserable during Coronavirus Blues.

What’s a sad so-in-so like you and me to do during Coronavirus Blues?

The answer is… Pull ourselves together!

How?

Got Music? Then let’s dance! Dancing boost the spirit. Remind yourself there is life in that body. Dancing alone feels great! But if you need an audience (and I don’t recommend this) you can set up the camera on your cell phone or laptop and record yourself dancing and maybe if you got courage, just post yourself, by going “Live” on Facebook, and invite your family and friends to join in. Who knows you might just go viral.

Or do yoga, meditate, or have a calming relaxing cup of tea. Tea flavors such as chamomile, peppermint, lemon or passion fruit are wonderful teas with calming effects. Please check with your medical provider first to make sure you don’t have any allergies or other health issues relating to drinking these teas.

Next, if none of these suggestions work for you, in helping you get over your Coronavirus Blues, then take a few minutes out of every day to sit down and do some focus breathing. Focus breathing is a great way to help you relax, reduce tension, and relieve stress, which are all symptoms of having the blues.

Finally, if all else fails, read a book and let it take you to a whole new world. The choice is yours. Keep the Coronavirus Blues or kick it to the curb and get your happy on.

Is It Love or Infatuation

Have you met someone special? And you think the two of you have that very special chemistry where you find yourself thinking about the person all the time? Think you are in love? Do you think you know what love is? Well, think again. Like the song Tina Turner sang, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” You might not even know what love is. Loving and being in love are two completely different things. The definition of loving is to have feeling or show love or great care. The definition of being in love is defined as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person, a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. Sexual passion or desire. Now we can go deeper and define… Loving someone is about how they make you feel, being in love is about how you make them feel... Loving someone means you are only concerned with how he makes you feel loved, special, or appreciated. Being in love means you worry about how to make him feel loved as well, because that's equally as important to you. But the biggest question to ask is do you know the difference between loving someone and being in love with them? Believe it or not there is a difference here too and believe it or not it can be hard to tell the difference between loving someone and being in love with them.

Here are a few things to think about the next time you think about whether or not you are loving someone or in love with them. • Loving someone is a choice, being in love isn’t. • Loving someone means wanting them to do well, being in love means putting them first. • Loving someone is fleeting, being in love is forever. • Loving someone means needing them around, being in love means needing them to be where they are happy. • Loving someone is about ownership, being in love is a partnership. • Loving someone is an uphill battle, being in love is effortless. • When you're in love with someone, you can fall out of love with that someone. • When you love someone, you never really stop loving that someone.

Wow! So many steps, so many things to think about on the subject of is it or isn’t it love when the feeling of love should be effortless, right? But this sounds like work just trying to figure it out. So, the moral of this story is to love realistically. • When you see your certain someone, realistically as they are and they see you realistically as you are, you both are less likely to disappoint the other. Take time to really get to truly know the person who is the object of your affection, realistically and you will be on your way to conquering the uphill battle to effortless love. And always remember Infatuation happens instantly. But love is a slow process.

Take 10 Minutes Each Day To Recharge!

Framed speaker and author Les Brown said it… “We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.” Today with the coronavirus we all can agree with Les Brown, that’s why it is important that each of us take some quiet time alone each day, just for ourselves.

This quiet time can be called our personal retreat time and this time doesn’t have to be a lot. Just ten minutes a day, will do the trick and if you don’t have ten minutes to start with, take five minutes. Whatever amount of time you can take for yourself, take it. It’s that important. Where should you go for your retreat? Anyplace will do. As long as you have the time to turn your attention inward. My favorite place is my bedroom window. The one that looks out over my backyard. Why? Because I can watch my flowers grow. Other things and places to consider for your inner retreat are focusing on a favorite picture in your home, or office that inspires you. Focusing on a high ceiling, chandelier, sculpture, dream catcher, or other symbol. Any of these items and more could be your focal point for your inward place.

Now that you have your retreat place, how to turn inward. Once you enter your retreat place sit and get comfortable, next spend the first five minutes just breathing. You can close your eyes, but only if you feel comfortable doing so. Focus on your breathing. Take deep breaths and hold for a few seconds and then release. Notice your thoughts while you are breathing. If negative thoughts come up, acknowledge them and let them go, returning your attention back to your breathing. Listen for sounds around you. Acknowledge that this is your retreat place that you are happy in this place.

Some suggestions to say to yourself while you are breathing are: You are relaxing and recharging. You are thankful and grateful for the people in your life. You are thankful and grateful for other things of interest to you. You are grateful for having love in your life or forgetting away from someone negative in your life. Etc., Etc., Whatever you may be grateful for…Say these to yourself, inwardly. After your ten minutes is up, slowly open your eyes if you closed them and look around. Notice everything as if you are seeing it for the first time and watch the beauty unfold. Also notice how much calmer you should feel. This was your retreat.

Catch Some Happiness!

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