Click A Positive Thought

I bought myself a clicker with a wrist strap when I attended a Time Out for Women program in Idaho Falls.  I haven’t actually used it yet so I guess I’d better get on top of things and get my act together.  Watch the Following Video presented by Hillary Weeks, to see what clicking is all about and then get out there and start clicking!  Even if you don’t have a clicker, think “CLICK” mentally, every time you think a positive thought and see if it makes a difference in your thinking habits.

Making More Dryer Lint Fire Starters

Today I was back in the kitchen making more fire starters.  I’ve been having my co-workers save me their dryer lint and I had enough to make close to four egg cartons of starters.  I bought me a miniature pan at Wal-Mart that I could melt the wax in.  I was using a can that I bent on one end for pouring but it got too hot for me to handle so I opted to buy a pan.

It was difficult to control the wax pouring from the pan so I melted the wax in my new pan, poured it into my bent can and from the can, onto the fire starters.  Where I was not melting the wax directly in the can and just pouring the melted wax into the can, it was easy enough to pour the wax from the can without getting too hot for my hands to handle.

The second and third rows from the left do not have waxed poured on them.  As you can see, I stuff the carton holes as tightly as I can with lint before pouring on the wax.

After pouring on the wax, I take the handle end of a butter knife, run it under hot water and then push all the lint down into the wax.  Before this procedure, I just grabbed a butter knife out of the drawer to push the lint into the wax and that did not work at all.  Where the handle of the knife was a bit cool, all the wax and lint was sticking to the knife.

I’ve read where you can also use sawdust to make fire starters but I do not have any sawdust on hand.  Go figure……..my husband is a woodworker and no sawdust!  A friend suggested that I try some animal bedding that you buy in pet stores but that came in such a huge package so I bought a small bag of wood Bar-B-Que chips to see how that would work.  You can see the wood chips that I used in the top left-hand corner of the previous picture.  I think they are a bit chunky so I think I’ll just stick to my dryer lint, which I know works, and call it good.  I guess where I have this all-most-full bag of Bar-B-Que chips I’ll just have to have a nice cook-out.

Visiting Teaching Bunny, Sagebrush & Tree

I went Visit Teaching on Sunday and as I was leaving one home and headed up the lane, this rabbit was sitting right off the side of the lane.  He could have cared less if I was there or not.  I slowly crept my car along just to see how close I could get before he would take off.  He never did leave so I just took some photos and left.  At first, he was looking at me head on and then he turned one way and started eating and then he turned the other way.  You can tell by the pictures how close I was. 

Then as I was on the main road headed for home, I saw some sagebrush poking through a wooden fence.  I thought it was pretty so I turned around and took some pictures.

Then along came this tree.  I can’t believe I’ve traveled along this road as many times as I have and didn’t notice this tree.  It is almost a perfect shape.  It wasn’t until after I took a picture and was previewing it that I noticed the Christmas lights hanging on it.  You can see just one strand hanging along the bottom of the tree greenery.  I will need to make it a point to remember this beautiful tree come Christmas time to see if the lights are lit.

The Hearty Little Dandelion

As Evan and I pulled in our driveway yesterday, got out of the car and headed towards the house, look what was standing proudly in the middle of our driveway.  We couldn’t believe it.  Evan said, “what a tough little cookie”.  What a trooper this dandelion is.  We looked on our lawn and couldn’t find a single dandelion and yet here, right in the middle of our driveway that is hard as rock, with no nutrients in the soil, stands this hearty little dandelion.  Where it was on a Sunday that we found the flower/weed, I thought……..amongst the trials of life, this little dandelion overcomes all obstacles and………?  Can’t you just hear the story now.  And the moral is?