How To Clean Resin Patio Furniture

Cleaning resin patio furniture doesn't have to be a huge chore. If your outdoor resin furniture has stains, mold or is just plain weather-beaten you can have it looking fantastic again in no time at all. While there are many products made specifically for cleaning resin outdoor furniture you can use a few simple household chemicals to get the job done frugally.

The number one secret for cleaning your outdoor resin patio furniture is bleach. Mix a 25:75 mixture of bleach and water respectively, and then add a little dish washing detergent. Using a scrub brush, simply scrub the furniture lightly with the cleaning recipe and then rinse thoroughly. If you have problems removing stubborn stains, make a paste with some baking soda and water. With a cloth or scrub brush, work the paste over the stain until it disappears. If all else fails, a bottle of Tilex will pretty much clean the worst of stains from any resin patio furniture.

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How To Make Brown Sugar

Many people buy brown sugar at the grocery store, but you can make your own homemade brown sugar with just two simple ingredients:

Brown Sugar Ingredients:

1 - Cup of Sugar
1 - Tablespoon of Molasses

Pour the sugar into a bowl and drizzle the molasses over the sugar. Mix well. Store in an airtight container or Ziploc bag. Tastes wonderfully delicious. Enjoy!

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How To Mix Concrete

I've mixed concrete for many projects around the house. For everything from sidewalks to filling post holes. Learning how to mix it really isn't all that hard. For most small projects you can get away with using bags of pre-mixed concrete from your local hardware store. But if you have a really large project like a house slab, you'll need to have concrete hauled in on a truck.

If you're using bags of pre-mix, the instructions are printed right on the bag. You simply dump the concrete into a wheelbarrow or plastic tubs sold specifically for mixing concrete. Add a little water at a time, shoveling the mix thoroughly, until you come up with a mix that is the consistency of pancake batter.

If you have a larger project, it may pay to gather the essential ingredients for concrete and mix them all together at the project site. The main components for concrete are:

• Cement



• Sand



• Gravel



• Water

The appropriate measurements are: 1 Part Cement - 2 Parts Sand - 3 Parts Gravel - Water to Proper Consistency

You need to mix the cement, sand and gravel thoroughly before adding any water. Start out doubling all the ingredients (2 parts cement - 4 parts sand - 6 parts gravel) until you find out what size batches are easiest for you to mix. There is some labor involved in the mixing, but you'll have a stronger back when the project is finished. Once all the dry parts are mixed, simply add water while stirring until you come up with the pancake consistency. You don't want the concrete too dry or too wet. As a precaution, wear gloves when mixing concrete to minimize skin contact.

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How To Make Egg Omelets - Easy Omelet Recipe

If you've always wanted to learn how to make an easy omelet, now you can. No skillet involved. Just a couple of eggs, a Ziploc bag and whatever omelet fillings you desire. You can even make a homemade egg and cheese omelet within minutes with this easy recipe. Let's get started!

Single Serving Egg Omelet Recipe

1-2 eggs
1-Ziploc bag
1-pot of boiling water
Fillings for your omelet

Directions:
Open up your Ziploc bag. Crack your egg(s) open and pour it into the bag. Zip the bag shut and squish and shake. Now open the bag and add your fillings (ham, cheese, peppers, mushrooms, whatever sounds good). Close the bag and remove as much air as you can. Shake and squish the bag a little more to mix the fillings with the egg(s). When all the ingredients look mixed, just slowly drop the bag into the pot of boiling water. Leave the bag in the water for about 5-6 minutes. After the time is up, remove the bag from the boiling water and let it sit about a minute to cool off. Then dump the egg omelet out onto your plate. All you should need now is a little salt and pepper and you're set. Enjoy your homemade egg omelet!

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How To Keep Your Hands Soft When Gardening

Tired of rough hands after digging in the dirt? Not only do goatskin gloves keep your hands clean while gardening, but they're also naturally rich in skin conditioning lanolin. Don't want to go to the expense of buying goatskin gloves, priced reasonably around $10.00 a pair? Just rub on some lanolin lotion before slipping on a pair of your favorite garden gloves. Another great secret for keeping hands soft while gardening is Corn Huskers Lotion. Apply it before and after working in the garden and you'll walk away with smoother feeling skin.

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How To Remove a Tick - Tick Bites

Alright, first you grab your propane torch and light it and then....no wait!! That's for glazing a ham. If only removing ticks properly were so easy. OK. The first thing you want to do is find the nasty little parasites within 24 hours. There's less chance of the little blood-suckers spreading diseases if found within that time-frame according to FDA Consumer Magazine. Now some of those ticks can hide in some places we'll not mention here, but I think you get the idea. Go grab some tweezers and get as close to the head of the tick as possible. You don't want to rip the tick off in shreds. There's no real trick to removing ticks. Just grab close to the head and pull slowly. Once you remove the tick you can take it outside and light a match to it until it pops, an ample source of entertainment for some beer drinkin' buddies after a hard day working in the bush. Or you can flush the tick, wrap it in a piece of clear tape, whatever your pleasure. You don't need to call Poison Control and have them come pick it up for disposal. Of course, you may want to hold onto the tick for a few days just in case you start getting symptoms of Lyme Disease or any other diseases that you can't explain to your significant other for that matter. In that case, just wrap a clear piece of tape over the tick and put it some place safe. Oh yeah, and don't forget to use a disinfectant, like alcohol, on the tick bite area to keep risk of infection to a minimum.

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How Much Milk Per Day - Source of Calcium

How much milk should you really drink per day? No more than 1-2 8 ounce servings of milk per day for a good source of calcium is what most dietitians recommend. Higher daily intakes of milk have been found to lead to prostate cancer. If you're lactose intolerant or milk just isn't your thing, you can eat calcium-rich broccoli and other leafy green vegetables, like collards. Tofu and beans also fill the bill for suitable calcium intake. And don't forget, all the milk and calcium in the world won't do your bones a bit of good without proper exercise!

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How To Remove Norton Anti-Virus Software

How do you get rid of Norton Anti-Virus Software or any other Norton products when you can't remove it through the add/remove programs in the control panel, you ask? Well, many people have problems removing a failed installation or a damaged Norton product. I was recently in the position of removing a damaged Norton Anti-Virus installation from a friend's computer with Windows XP Home Edition installed. I messed with it for about an hour before finally heading to the internet in search of help. All complaints finally led to the ultimate fix, the Norton Removal Tool. Just download the correct Norton Removal Tool for whatever flavor you have installed and you'll be set to get the failed software removed from your computer.

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