Home made child safe glass cleaner

Just read this fast article and discover an easy green way to clean. I love this.

Wash This.

Hi. I'm weird; But washing my hair with baking soda and apple cider vinegar is not weird. Yeah I said it. Apple cider vinegar. That acts as the conditioner. Click here to see easy directions on what to do. I have been doing this for two months now and all signs of what little dandruff I had are completely gone. Plus it is super inexpensive and great for the environment and great for your head and brain? No chemicals seeping into your head is what I call "a good thing."
Experiment with the amounts and length of time you leave the ingredients in your hair, or it can come out too dry (too much time with baking soda in hair) or too smelly (too much time with apple cider vinegar in hair). I have regular length guy hair and I rinse the baking soda out almost immediately and leave the vinegar in for about a minute. Hope you give it a chance.

Baby Powder as a Bug Repellent

I am back from my hiatus; And I've learned a few things while gone (from blogging). We live on another island now and it happens to be a state park, which means lots of beautiful nature and wildlife. With this beauty comes spiders, bees, wasps, snakes, deer, raccoons, alligators, etc. I just found a wasps nest at out front door. I looked up "natural wasp repellent" and found this response to my question.

I found that plain baby powder works better than any bug spray and stays around for months or until it rains. Harmless to humans, great deterrent to buggy bugs of all forms. Ants, fleas, termites, all bugs, will not cross over it, if placed on the floor, near door entries, ant holes, fences, walls, invisible to the eye, but no more bugs, spiders, bees, wasps. Put Powder on your kids hair & skin when camping or at the beach and yourself, in the car, everywhere, it really works. So does garlic and onion plants in your yard, keeps all bug life away, even mosquitoes.


When I puffed some of the powder on the nest, they, as expected, flew away. One or two buzzed around for a while and I puffed the nest again. I let it sit for a while then just knocked the nest down and it bounced into the bushes. I then puffed a few borders around the outside of the doors and windows. Hopefully it works. It definitely felt better than spraying Lemon Scented Raid all over the place!

A short film I thought was beautiful

My son from Gunnar Konradsson on Vimeo.

Training for a race

Well, hello to all readers. I have a confession. I am not a vegetarian. Earlier posts would lead you to believe that I may have gone this route, but I never stuck to it. It just wasn't the right time for me. My son was just born, and the extra challenge of changing my diet in such a manner was just that; An extra challenge which I wasn't ready to accept then.
So there it is. I still eat meat, although red meat has been bothering my stomach lately when in burger form. A nice filet mignon is not only very tasty, but hasn't bothered the tummy at all. Only the burgers are doing some damage.
Anyway, enough of that talk. What I really want to talk about is the race I am training for coming up in May. It is the Turtle Crawl Olympic Distance Triathlon on Jekyll Island, Georgia. It has got a fire lit under my butt, so I've started running again. The biking and swimming will start again soon. The excitement of simply knowing I will be signing up for a race is so motivating for myself. If I were to give anyone advice about doing something to make them feel better all around, it would be "sign up for some kind of competitive race". A lot of races you can just walk through; 3 miles or so. And then there are others which are more challenging or course. So wish me luck and I will keep you posted on the progress.

The funny thing about being a new dad

Lennon is such a wonderful blessing. His eyes are brown and big. He is easy to make smile. He is so big and healthy. As he just turned ten months, I reflect on the way life has found a different path. His presence forces his mom and I to change, not only some of our daily habits but, our lifestyle. We now need less sleep than we thought, to get smoothly through the day. The most nauseating smells are not so bad anymore. I also think it's been about a year since we've been to a club or bar, which was an event that we tried to do a couple times a month before.
A new challenge we've met is "group parenting". Thankfully, we both parent a bit differently. Dawn is more protective of "her baby", where I tend to let him fall on his face. Though both methods are equally important for healthy growth, they do tend to clash once in a while. But we work it out pretty quickly without disturbing the little guy. We also are starting to be more like the other parent which is nice to see.

Anyway, life is new and lovely and we wouldn't have it any other way. In fact, we are the two (I mean three) luckiest beings on the planet.

A Buddha Saying . . .

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Your heaven, dreams, and purpose all exist within, not in the clutches of a divine external force.