logo
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
#895520 06/28/15 02:05 AM
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
L
Parakeet
OP Offline
Parakeet
L
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
When life hands you a lemon you can certainly do much more than just make lemonade. This versatile fruit is an amazing source of wonders – before today, I never realized just how much a person could do with lemons. Oh how poor our lives would be without them.

For ideas on how to use LEMONS for hearth and home go to

Lemons for Hearth and Home

If you would like to add to, expand or offer other ideas on matters lemon, please do – it would be great to hear from you.

How do you use lemons in your life?

Cheers now!


Lestie Mulholland
Container Gardening Editor

Contain your Delight - it's easy!
Sponsored Post Advertisement
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Offline
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
Lestie, there's a problem with the link to the article. I've had a look at it and you just need to insert a : after http .

Now I shall read the article. I do like lemons.


Mona Evans
For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter!

http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
L
Parakeet
OP Offline
Parakeet
L
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
Hi there Everyone,

Oops - I did not check my links and thanks for the tip off Mona,

Here we go again ...

Lemons for Hearth and Home

Cheers again!


Lestie Mulholland
Container Gardening Editor

Contain your Delight - it's easy!
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
L
Parakeet
OP Offline
Parakeet
L
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
Oh Dear People - I don't know why this particular link is not working!

Please be patient and go to the website to read the article and in the meantime I will try to sort it out.

Ta ever so...


Lestie Mulholland
Container Gardening Editor

Contain your Delight - it's easy!
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Offline
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
Hmm. I can't see what's gone wrong on the second attempt at a link.

But I've tested this link: Lemons for Hearth and Home

The article is worth a read. I think I need a lemon tree. Though I can't think where I'd put it if I had one.


Mona Evans
For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter!

http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
L
Parakeet
OP Offline
Parakeet
L
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
Thanks for this Mona, the link story is a mystery but with your help now people can access the info readily.

I think I may have said this before but my Mom was an avid rosarian and though she had a garden of other flowers and plants, all kinds of roses filled up every space possible.

When at a nursery with her one day she saw another rose that she didn't have (Limelight) and wanted to buy it. Exasperated, I asked where she was gong to put it and she promptly answered "On my head!"

Well, needless to say we found a space in her garden but to this day I use her saying for anything appropriate - "On my head!"

Smiling at the memory, thanks ...


Lestie Mulholland
Container Gardening Editor

Contain your Delight - it's easy!
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Offline
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
I liked the story about The Mom and the Rose.

I doubt that a lemon tree would like our garden. Steeply sloping, poor soil, in Wales, and the sheltered places (small patio, side of house) get very little light. Friends in California have lemon trees. Lemons like it there. Sigh.


Mona Evans
For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter!

http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Offline
BellaOnline Editor
Renaissance Human
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 11,890
Likes: 30
The other evening I put potatoes in a steamer basket in a saucepan. As I managed to turn the heat up, instead of down - couldn't actually see the gas burner with the pan in place - when I returned . . . . the potatoes were done! And I hadn't set the kitchen on fire! But the water had boiled away and the pan was blackened inside.

I used washing-up liquid and a plastic scourer and a LOT of elbow grease. This helped, but didn't really complete the job. Now I have to note that this was not my pan, but I lodge with someone else some of the time. So I felt that I had to make it right.

Well, inspired by recent discussion on your forum, I got out a half lemon and I gave the remains of the black a "scrub" with it. Thought I had nothing to lose. And it worked. I won't say it was as good as new, because it wasn't that good to start with it. But I got the black colour off and it was as good as it was before I started cooking.

So three cheers for lemons! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!


Mona Evans
For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter!

http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
L
Parakeet
OP Offline
Parakeet
L
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 1,058
Likes: 5
Hi Mona,

So pleased to read this ... I have had similar adventures with potatoes and I know all about it.

Just by the way, I am making good progress with cleaning a large copper bowl that has been encrusted with dried Brasso (metal cleaner) for some twenty years - so there is a lot of elbow grease there too, but there is no ways I would have been as successful as I have been so far without the lemon juice - it certainly does work on brass and copper too.

Cheers


Lestie Mulholland
Container Gardening Editor

Contain your Delight - it's easy!

Moderated by  Lestie - ContainerGardens 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Brand New Posts
MyHeritage & OldNews
by Angie - 03/16/24 09:15 AM
Psalm for the day
by Angie - 03/16/24 08:27 AM
Denmark's Oscar Entry "The Promised Land"
by Angela - Drama Movies - 03/15/24 08:51 PM
Stunning jewelry by Devon Leigh
by sarae - 03/15/24 12:58 PM
From Candlemas to March Equinox
by Mona - Astronomy - 03/14/24 07:35 PM
2024 - on this day in the past ...
by Mona - Astronomy - 03/14/24 07:12 PM
A Lenten Reflection
by Angie - 03/13/24 09:24 PM
Stitching by Hand
by Cheryl - Sewing Editor - 03/13/24 04:21 PM
Lucy Lawless Directs New Documentary
by Angela - Drama Movies - 03/12/24 05:47 PM
Inspiration Quote
by Angie - 03/10/24 03:09 PM
Sponsor
Safety
We take forum safety very seriously here at BellaOnline. Please be sure to read through our Forum Guidelines. Let us know if you have any questions or comments!
Privacy
This forum uses cookies to ensure smooth navigation from page to page of a thread. If you choose to register and provide your email, that email is solely used to get your password to you and updates on any topics you choose to watch. Nothing else. Ask with any questions!


| About BellaOnline | Privacy Policy | Advertising | Become an Editor |
Website copyright © 2022 Minerva WebWorks LLC. All rights reserved.


Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5