ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Quality time at dinner table
Advertiser Staff
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Today is "Family Day — A Day to Eat Dinner With Your Children," a national effort to strengthen families. Some tips to make the most out of family dinner:
— University of Hawai'i-Manoa Center on the Family
SAVE THE PLANET
PESTICIDE WITH A TWIST
Here's a recipe for citrus spray — a nontoxic pesticide for soil to treat gnats, flies, mosquitoes and worms — courtesy of environmental expert Brian Dolansky on the hgtv.com Web site:
Boil 1 gallon of water with five to six orange or lemon rinds for two to three hours. Cool, strain and pour into a spray bottle.
Spray all your plants with the solution or isolate the plant being sprayed because pests will leave the treated plant and look for another plant to infest. Treatments should be applied once a day until the pests are under control.
— Zenaida Serrano
FINAL WORD
"The journey toward perfection is by definition a path of mistakes. We have a right to many things, but a life without problems is not one of them."
Hugh Prather | author of "365 Thoughts: A Daily Guide to Uplift and Inspire."
