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Home Puppy Problems
Animals are a wonderful addition to your life, but housebreaking is always a challenge to your floors. What you need is a personal puppy cleaning kit. Pick up some inexpensive shop or cleaning towels in white terrycloth. Warehouse and discount stores carry these in generous packages. Then fill a spray bottle with one (1) teaspoon [...]
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Let’s Do Some Dusting
No one likes to dust. However, think of this one fact before you decide to skip dusting this week, your bed is full of dust mites. Dust mites feed on human skin flakes and can be found in mattresses, pillows, carpets, upholstered furniture, bed covers, clothes, stuffed toys and fabric and fabric-covered items. Body parts [...]
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Take Care of the Little Things
Yes, it is 2012. Do you have huge house cleaning, organizing resolutions? How about not biting off more than you can chew. Just take care of all of those little projects. You know the ones…the ones that wake you up at night or the ones that you think of on your way out the door. [...]
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Pools and Floors
Are your floors designed to handle after-pool walk-ins? If you have tile, wet people walking through your home don’t pose much of a problem. But even with tile, hard water spots and chlorine can keep you washing your floors more often than you want. And if your floors are not as water-safe, you may want [...]
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How To Remove Easter Egg Dye From Carpet
Easter is just around the corner! We hope you and your family have a joyous day planned! Sometimes dyeing Easter eggs can get a bit messy. In case this happens, we’d like to share some tips with you regarding how to remove the dye from your carpet. We hope you don’t have to use this [...]
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A Krispy Kreme Update From Margie & Sam O’Krent
For those of you that heard about our desired participation in the Krispy Kreme Challenge….. Our bags were packed and stomachs primed but Mother Nature had her own plan Thursday night and brought in an ice storm to San Antonio. After spending 3 hours without moving on IH-10 we finally made it back to our [...]
Thanksgiving Recipe: Apple Crisp
Thanksgiving is exactly one week away! We just can’t believe it! We’d like to share one of our favorite recipes with you and your family for this holiday! Close your eyes and imagine the smell of a hot apple crisp baking in the oven. Can you taste it? Below is our recipe for our favorite [...]
Winter Housekeeping