Bounce OUT of the Dryer

This was so cute AND informative we wanted to share it with you! 

U.S. Postal service sent out a message to all letter carriers to put a sheet of Bounce in their uniform pockets to keep yellow-jackets away.

I use it when I am playing or working outside. The insects just veer around you.

All this time you've just been putting Bounce in the dryer!

1.       It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them. It also repels mice.

2.       Spread sheets around foundation areas, or in trailers, or cars that are sitting and it keeps mice from entering your vehicle.

3.   It takes the odor out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.

4.       It repels mosquitoes.  Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.

5.       Eliminate static electricity from your television (or computer) screen.

6.       Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling..

7.       Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.

8.       To freshen the air in  your home - Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer  or hang in the closet.

9.       Put Bounce sheet in vacuum cleaner.

10.     Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce before beginning to sew.

11.     Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.

12.     To refresh the air in your car - Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.

13.     Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food and the pan.

14.     Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.

15.     Collect cat hair.  Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.

16.     Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds. Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.

17.     Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.

18.     Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.

19.     Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.

20.     Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.

21.     Put a Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them.  It will keep them smelling fresh.

22.     Wet a Bounce sheet, hose down your car, and wipe love bugs off easily with the wet Bounce.

23.     Put a sheet of Bounce in your suitcase when traveling, it will help keep mites or any other critters out of it.  While you are at it, travel with several Bounce sheets and run them up and down your bed linen before getting into bed, it will cause all the critters already in your bed to run.  Keep sheets in your suitcase even after you have unpacked to protect your suitcases from bugs nesting in it.

Smelly feet and Mosquitoes

Researchers in Tanzania are attempting to use dirty socks in order to lure mosquitoes to specially constructed traps where they are poisoned and quickly die.

In global public health, disease-fighting tools that are cheap, available and sustainable are the Holy Grail. It might be hard to top the one being tested in Tanzania as a way to prevent malaria: smelly socks.

Every year almost 800,000 people, mostly children, die from malaria. Tanzania's Ifakara Health Institute has begun to develop a device that may help prevent malaria deaths in the developing world using the odor of smelly socks.

Researchers headed by Dr. Fredros Okumu know that mosquitoes are turned on by the scent of a smelly sock. The stinky device, which is a complement to bed nets and sprays, is placed outside of the home. Inside the device is smelly synthetic bait that attracts the disease carriers. Once the aroma attracts them they are trapped or poisoned and left to die.

“It’s a bold idea. Who would have thought there was a life-saving technology working in your laundry basket?” said Peter A. Singer, a physician who heads Grand Challenges Canada, a development agency of the Canadian government that is helping fund the research.

Experiments in three villages where people get about 350 bites a year from malaria-infected mosquitoes are using dirty socks to lure the insects into traps, where they become contaminated with poisons and ultimately die.

Researchers hope that if the strategy works, it will eventually complement insecticide-treated bed nets as a low-tech way to prevent malaria.

Previous lab studies have shown that smelly socks work well in attracting mosquitoes. Field experiments have shown that synthetic bait is more attractive than people, at least until the insects get close enough to realize there’s no blood waiting for them.

The new experiments, however, are the first head-to-head field tests of footwear vs. chemistry. The researchers hope the footwear wins.

“It is simply a cost issue and an expediency issue,” said Fredros O. Okumu, the Tanzanian entomologist leading the research. “Socks are more readily available, and you don’t have to mix any chemicals. It is the sort of thing that could be set up in a cottage factory.”

The traps are square boxes that look a little like commercial beehives. Some will contain the human-odor bait, which consists of simple chemicals (including lactic acid, ammonia and propionic acid) that are exuded by people, especially from the legs and feet. Some will contain socks worn for a day by adults. Others will contain cotton pads that schoolchildren will put inside their socks for a day and then deliver to researchers.

The researchers will compare the number of mosquitoes caught with each method.

Earlier work by Okumu and his colleagues at the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania showed that the chemical bait attracted four times as many mosquitoes as live people and that dirty socks worked just as well, at least in the lab. If the sock pads prove adequate, they will be the preferred bait.

The inside surfaces of some traps are coated with an organophosphate pesticide. Mosquitoes that land there will die within 24 hours. Other traps contain a fungus that infects the insects and kills them in five days — roughly half the time needed for the complicated cycle that enables a newly infected mosquito to transmit the malaria parasite to a person.

Dr. Fredros Okumu's grant is funded by both Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is expected that the device could be in use by the community within two years.

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/309081#ixzz1X1IkcJcF

a Voice Crying in the Wilderness

It has been weeks since I've captured a few minutes of time to blog.  Life has been busy, to say the least, and though I've gathered information and little nuggets for all of you out there serving the people of the world I've found it hard to sit down and post.  For that I'm sorry.  However, the reason behind my time away has been for you.  Fasting, praying, travailing for the nations of the world have kept me more on my face than with my computer.  I'm back now.  Stronger, focused yet still feeling the pull of the Lord.  What more my Father?  Pray for me as I pray and watch. 

Today I read my friends blog (as I often do).  She is an anointed writer, speaker, minister of the gospel and so dear.  It touched that place where deep is calling to deep and I've asked if I could share with you.  So here is Tony Robinson (http://wellwateredwoman.blogspot.com) with a word I believe you will relate to.  The need to see beyond what is right in front of us and the testimony we find there.

“A voice of one crying in the wilderness:
Prepare the way of the Lord;
Make his paths straight.”
Mark 1:3

Last evening my son Jordan and I were blessed to meet a man and that encounter has left a mark that will never be erased.
We were walking to the market when we encountered him, he is a homeless man.
We live in a city with a high homeless population so it isn’t rare or unusual to run into a homeless person, but yesterday was different.
I had seen this man a few times over the past month or so, but because he appeared so bedraggled and scary looking I always attempted to avoid him, but again yesterday was different.
As we approached the corner to cross the street, we saw him standing on the median; he had bags galore at his feet. I was prepared to hear the words I’ve heard on more occasions than I can count, “do you have some spare change”, “I’m hungry can you help me out with some extra cash”, something along those lines. But yesterday was different.

This man wanted nothing from the people who walked past him, he wanted nothing from the cars that pulled up alongside the median, he was not looking to receive but only to give.

As we got closer to him he spoke, but it was so gentle we almost missed his words, I thought he said something but wasn't sure if I heard correctly. Taken aback at what I “thought” I heard, I said excuse me, and he repeated the very words that I thought I heard, he said: “free Christian flyers”.
Stunned, I said okay and approached him. He had a notebook/portfolio type folder crammed full with papers; he reached in and pulled one out.
My son Jordan and I took the paper, It was hand written with gentle yet strong and perfected penmanship.

As we looked at it, he told me all the words in quotations were direct scriptures, the words not in quotations; which were few; very few; were his expression and revelations of what the Lord had spoken to him. He spoke to us some things concerning the nation and American needing prayer, as he spoke I could fee the presence of God around this man.

This man, this one person that many have driven by, walked past and pressed hard to avoid as I too had done had such a gentle and kind spirit to him.
You could literally feel the love of God oozing off of him. His heart for souls, his concern for this nation was overwhelming. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt this man, this most unlikely subject had been with Jesus. As stood there my heart burst like a dam inside of me I wanted to run and find myself in the secret place, in my prayer closet crying out interceding for souls, for the nation like never before. To be truthful I wanted to lay prostrate in the median and weep before God.

I have heard stories of people the likes of Smith Wigglesworth, John Wesley and others. People who had spent so much time in the presence of God through their prayer lives that when engaging with people the power of God would overtake those around them and they would begin to weep and cry what must we do to be saved. I can only relate what my son and I experienced yesterday to an event like that. I felt the conviction of God to extend myself further than I’ve ever been extended before to be a witness and a light to the lost, to interceded and cry out for our leaders and nation.

As we parted ways and my son and I continued on our way to the store, I was still so shaken and moved, I called my husband and shared with him. He told me he had saw the man sleeping in a grassy area early that morning on his way to work and prayed for him as he walked past. My son then told me he had seen him the day before sitting in the grassy area reading his Bible.
As soon as I hung up with my husband I had to call several friends to share. Later last night my husband went out to ride the bicycle, about an hour later he called to say he saw the man in the same spot and stopped to talk to him. They held a lengthy conversation encouraging and edifying each other in the word of God. It really blessed my husband, especially when the man said he was just doing what he could to help share the good news of the gospel of Christ. He said he just wanted to help make people’s days better, amazing really amazing.

I’m not sure what happened in this mans life to bring him to the place of homelessness but I do know this, despite the state he found himself in he was determined to let his light shine.
He refused to be defined by his situation yet he chose to allow his situation to define and show forth the Christ in him.

Dear Well Watered Woman I charge you today to continue to let your light shine. Whatever the state you may find yourself in, God is still able and willing to use your life, your words, your heart, your voice to touch the lives of others. There may be days when you feel like the lone voice crying out in the wilderness but you are not alone He is with you. I implore you to take in the words of the Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:11, to learn to be content in whatever state you find yourself and to continue to press towards the mark for the prize of the High calling of God in Christ Jesus; Philippians 3:14.

Blessings until next time,