Pisgah ( Deuteronomy 34:5-6

• Colorful sponges make great soap dishes — especially in the kids’bathroom. As a bonus,you can use it for cleaning and throw it in the wash. • “If you don’t keep a lot of food in your refrigerator,fill up empty space with gallons of water. You can never have too much cool water to drink, and less space to cool means less energy used.”— M.R.T. in Virginia • “In preparing for moving day, make things easier on yourself. Use a different color to mark boxes for each room of the new place. And label them on all sides. This way,it’s easy to deliver boxes to the right rooms, and you can see the label no matter how they are stacked in the room.”— J.W. in Colorado • “Spray several drops of perfume or essential oil on a cotton ball or tissue and toss it into the bag inside your diaper pail. It will keep it smelling fresher longer.”— V.H. in California • “When I mix up a batch of dressing from oil,vinegar and spices,I have a secret trick that helps to get my dressing well-mixed and smooth — an ice cube. I add one just before shaking, and it makes all the difference. Shake, shake,shake,then remove whatever is left of the cube.”— I.K. in Texas • Go Green Tip:Chemicals used during dry cleaning can be toxic. Air out garments that have been dry cleaned for at least an hour — outside the house.

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By Samantha Weaver

• It was American astronaut Buzz Aldrin,the second man to set foot on the moon,who made the following declaration: “I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.” • If you’re like the average American,you will spend approximately 8,760 hours of your life — that’s one full year — just watching commercials on TV. • Talk about bad luck:A 26-year-old man was walking down a street in the town of Windhoek,Namibia,when he was struck by lightning. As if that weren’t bad enough,the bolt of lightning caused him to fall into the street, where he was struck by a car. The poor man didn’t survive,though it’s not clear which stroke of bad luck dealt the fatal blow. • You may be surprised to learn that the first Caesar salad was actually created in Tijuana,Mexico. • Every seed you find inside an apple has a genetically different makeup from every other seed inside the same apple. • According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word that has the largest number of different meanings is “set”— it takes 26 pages to detail them all. • According to the record-keepers at Guinness,Robert Ardito holds the world record for the most punches thrown in one minute:702. • In Pennsylvania, a man was stunned when he returned home one day to find a deer taking a bubble bath. It seems that the unfortunate animal had stumbled into the house and in its frenzy to find a way out again,ended up in the bathroom,where its antics accidentally turned on the water and knocked over a bottle of bubble bath. ***

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