How are the outdoor safety conditions around your home and property? Do you have adequate lighting that will come on when you need it? Do you have lighting that will shine brightly to deter intruders? I ask because I was just reading something interesting about outdoor light fixtures and how important and instrumental they are in deterring residential crime and keeping people safe on their property. This is something that is easy to overlook…but having it there when you need it is so valuable.
We have one fixture out on the side of our garage that I think needs to be replaced. It has never shown directly and effectively to light up this area well.
Other than this, I feel reasonable confident that we are well-lit outside and deterring prowlers from sneaking around where we don’t want them. This means ‘coons in my compost bin, too!
Well…we are on the mend from H1N1 in my home. Two of our nine family members are still sick at this writing (one hasn’t caught it at all). Although it was certainly no picnic and I would have loved to avoid it…it wasn’t the devastation that you read and hear about. Everyone was quite sick for at least two hard days and several others (me included) we quite sick for about five hard days. More of us were less sick rather than more sick, though.
I’m glad to be through it and not have to live in a constant state of anxiety over getting it, though.
If you have not had it yet…here are a few tips I recently came across:
1. Wash your hands constantly.
2. Keep your hands off of your face. Stop touching your face except when you are eating or washing.
3. Gargle two times a day with warm salt water. This may be enough to kill H1N1 germs if you are infected.
4. Clean the insides of your nose with a warm salt water solution
5. Eat foods high in vitamin C.
6. Drink warm liquids during the day (coffee, tea, etc.). Same effect as gargling with salt water.
Stay well!
