The gardens are in and growing, weeding is in full stride and soon canning season will arrive, when we celebrate the “fruits” of the harvest. But to ensure there will be fruit, Calvin Balch has a recipe for Pickled Moths you ought to try! After years of ill-timed spraying routines, we’ve been thrilled thus far with the results of this recipe for catching moths, gnats and flies and an occasional wasp. We anticipate that our fruit crop will be nearly worm and insecticide free this year. You might want to try it, even though you’re getting a late start.
1 Gal water
1 C. sugar
1 C. Apple Cider Vinegar
Mix together and put 1-2 C. in hanging containers on each fruit tree Use a couple of containers on large trees. As it evaporates replace, or reconstitute.
Soap's on
Since we’re talking recipes, here’s one for liquid laundry soap that costs about $2.50 for 5 gallons and “no,” you don’t have to use lye. All the ingredients are available at Clark's Market. It is easy to make, especially if you’ve have an electric cheese grater. It cleans as good as soap that cost four times as much. You will still need to spot spray extra-dirty spots like collars.
Ingredients
4 cups hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha laundry soap bar*
1 cup Washing Soda* (NOT Baking Soda)
½ cup Borax*
5 gallon bucket with lid
Directions
-Put hot tap water in saucepan.
-Grate the Fels-Naptha soap and add to saucepan.
-Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.
-Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water.
-Add melted soap, Washing Soda and Borax.
-Stir well until all powder is dissolved.
-Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.
- Stir before each use. (The first time you stir it, it will be very thick, but just stir it and each time after that, it’s no big deal to stir it quickly) I put my big batch into smaller containers after I finished, so I can just shake it. I figure I’ve got a 6 month supply.
To use:
-Top Load Machine- 5/8 Cup per load (Approx. 128 loads)
- Front Load Machines- ¼ Cup per load (Approx. 320 loads)
-Optional: To give this laundry detergent a pleasant scent, you can add drops of essential
oil once soap has cooled (like Lavender; Rosemary or Tea Tree oil).
“Thy Speech Betrayeth Thee"
No, it’s not the immigrant influence, nor the mindless vulgarity of TV and music. My guess is that nothing has led to the decline of the English language as quickly as texting. Relying on phonetic shortcuts and second grade vocabulary skills, cell phones have in a single leap taken us backwards in a few short years to the almost inane communication of the unschooled. The July 2 Deseret News reports that 54% of all teens use texting as the most common form of communication.
In addition, rather than talking in person to another and developing some social skills in the process, many have become isolated and stymied in their communication skills. Another problem that has developed is a general pattern of coarseness and impropriety, as people use abbreviations such as OMG, when normally they wouldn't take the Lord's name in vain.
I know it must be a great tool to use for quick messages, but some have become so enamored with texting, that they can hardly make it through a movie or church without sending a message. They even text, when the recipient is in the same room, or when at a dinner or group activity when they should participating face-to-face. Instead, they turn on their phone and ignore people right next to them. Yes, they are communicating, but the message is rudeness. I sat by a young women in a movie in SLC recently, and the light was distracting to all others in her radius as periodically she had to feed her texting addiction. What has happened to common courtesy and conversation?
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