Do you like bird watching?  If you do there are a few things that you can do to help encourage birds to visit your backyard, giving you the opportunity to watch them a bit more closely. Birds require food, so be sure to offer food in a safe place. They also need water, so be sure to have a bird bath or small water feature in the yard. Be sure that you make a spot for yourself to enjoy watching the birds without being right in their space and scaring them away.

In the summer lots of families spend more time in their backyard than they might during the rest of the year. Swimming is very popular, as can be attested by the crowds at homes with a pool. No inground pool? No problem you can be inflatable ones fairly inexpensively. Aside from swimming you can have a lot of fun in your back yard. You can do a lot of things there. Many families set up different outdoor games, games such as badminton and horseshoes. What’s your favorite summertime outdoor activity?

Our front porch is a fun place to hang out and talk with friends. A chill spot if you will, as my son would say. However the chairs out there are very uncomfortable. In order to resolve this issue I bought outdoor cushions. The front porch is now very comfortable and is once again a fun place to be with friends.

You know that rubber seal that goes around your refrigerator? How do you clean it? For years I would try and fit the corner of a cleaning rag in there. I never got it clean. Recently I learned a trick to getting those spaces in the rubber seal clean. Use a q-tip. Yep. Stick the q-tip into your favorite cleanser and then pull the q-tip from one side of the space to the other. It’s inexpensive and it really works!

If you’re like many parents you put pictures and drawings that your children have created on the refrigerator. I don’t think it’s out of line to display anything you’re proud of. I hung some of my own college tests on there a few years back. I have a picture my 14 year old drew hanging there. I have several pictures that my younger son made. Heck, if my husband were into architecture or engineering I’d hang cad drawings up there if he gave them to me. How long will you or did you display things on the fridge?