{ AMISH COMMUNITY NEWS } Vol. 3 No. 9
August 3, 2011
Helpful Hints from our Neighbors Mystery solved! Help for ‘buggy’ plants! For Bugs on Plants Submitted by Barbara Ann Detweiler 1/2 cup alcohol 2 teaspoons dish soap 1 cup water Mix in spray bottle. Spray on buggy plants.
For Tomato Blossom Rot Submitted by Barbara Ann Detweiler 1 teaspoon gypsum 1 teaspoon Epsom salts 1 heaping shovelful compost Mix ingredients. Spread around effected plants. To Get Rid of: aphids, leafhoppers, mealybugs, spidermites, & whiteflies on plants Submitted by Barbara Ann Detweiler 1/2 cup alcohol 1 quart water Mix together in a spray bottle. Lightly mist affected plants.
Garden Pest Repellant Submitted by Barbara Ann Detweiler
1/3 cup cooking oil 1 teaspoon baking soda Water Mix cooking oil and baking soda and keep in a jar until needed. When needed … combine 2 teaspoons mixture with 1 cup water in a spray bottle. Use at once, spraying affected plants.
Hints for the ‘john’! Clean Toilets
Submitted by Barbara Ann Detweiler Use denture-cleaning tablets. Put 2 tablets in the bowl and 2 in the tank just before going to bed.
Space Age Clean
Submitted by Sarah Miller To add a citrus freshness to your bathroom, sprinkle about 1/2 cup Tang drink mix in your toilet. Let stand for a couple of hours, then flush.
Household Hints Flowers Submitted by Sarah Miller
To keep cut flowers fresh for weeks, add any clear soda to your vase. (7-Up, Sprite, ginger ale, etc … all will do.) You can also add left over black coffee to your flowers. To press flowers for cards, etc, put between facial tissues and press them between pages of old phone books.
Fabric Softener
Submitted by Barbara Ann Detweiler 2 cups baking soda 1 cup vinegar 4 cups water 30 drops essential oil (lemon or lavender) Mix and store in a bottle. Add to wash instead of storebought fabric softener.
By Jane Attina A
few days after my drawing was published in the Plain Country, Marty Miller of Garrettsville came into the Middlefield library and told the librarians that he thought his sister was the artist. A day or so after that, Ken Bender stopped by and told me he believed it was his wife Regina who drew the picture. When I told him that Marty had been in, he said that was his brother-in-law. It was then that I knew my years long question was being answered! Soon after, I received a call from Regina’s mother Linda. She told me the family was out at the Garrettsville Summerfest and they started talking about the picture in the paper. They thought for sure it was their Regina! She went on to remind me that the family lived in Parkman and used the bookmobile until they moved out of the county. She said she still had a good-bye card that I gave the children. Recently I spoke with Regina personally and found that she has three children and is expecting another later this year. She said she was about nine or ten years old when the bookmobile parked in front of the post office in Parkman. That would have made it about 1986 when the very first bookmobile and my library career began. We reminisced about old times and planned a get together soon. It will be fun to actually put faces with memories. I look forward to visiting with Regina and her family.
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