Rain Barrel

Good afternoon everyone! I recently read in the "Lake Lines: Newsletter of the Knife Lake sportmen's club Inc." that rain barrels are in need to help reduce residential water usage. During the summer water usage increases " 40-50%." Here in Minnesota are storm sewers eventually flow into our rivers and lakes. This is an opportunity for polution due to the amount of fertilizers that are used. However by using a rain barrel to collect your rain water from your roof you are able to reduce the amount of run off you have and any direct rain on the lawn will be passed down through the soil as normal without excess run off. To create your rain barrel you need to attach a spigot to attach your hose to. Add a run off pipe so your barrel does not overflow and put a cover on in to keep the mosquitos out. Put your downspout in top of the barrel through the lid.

This is such a great idea! For those of you paying for water this can be a simple solution to creating a built in savings plan in your summer budget. This can save up to 1,300 gallons per barrel per year if used correctly. Check with your city prior to installation to make sure they isn't anything preventing you from making this change.

Keeping Green can be a fabulous decision. Let me know your green ideas!

Green Cleaning

Wow, I can't believe it! My mom has always had an odor to her house, I can't really explain it and it was never from lack of being clean. She is a bit of clean freak. However, it was not a pleasant smell. However, after two weeks of using the Norwex products the smell has been complete gone....

See Mom has a dog and lives at the lake. Tile floors and carpet in the living room. Who would have thought it would be the carpet.

We used Norwex Sportszyme in the carpet cleaner and let it dry. Then on to the floors we have to vaccuum first due to dogs that shed, then the glass and counters. All said and done we spent 3 hours cleaning and have not had the smell return in two weeks.

Please keep in mind that I did not use the sportzyme as directed but it worked.

For those of you with outdoor glass tables that you struggle getting clean after the sun bakes on the greasy grimey residue from being outdoors. The Enviro Cloth and water is all that is needed to easily break through it.