Spring Clean with FREE Basic H

  

Do you want FREE BASIC H?

Attention all bloggers!!!

I told you here that Shaklee is trying to create 50,000 healthier homes in the next 6 weeks and I want to help!! :)

 

I love helping families get healthier!!  That is one major reason why I am a Shaklee Distributor!

Well, I need your help!

I am looking for bloggers that want to help my mission!

I will give you a FREE Basic H Sample to try and review on your blog.  You can even host a giveaway on your blog and I will give your readers samples to try too!!!

I only have a limited amount of samples so please email me at donahuewellness@hotmail.com with your name, your blog name, number of followers, reasons why you want to try Basic H and why your readers would be interested and I will send out your sample! 

If you already purchased Shaklee from me and want to do a review on your blog, I can giveaway Basic H samples to your readers too! :)

Thanks so much in helping families get healthier in honor of Earth Day this year!!

This little 16 oz bottle creates an unbelievable 48 gallons of super-safe, really powerful, all purpose cleaner. We challenge you to use it up any time soon to clean everything from spilled milk, to bug guts on the window, to splattered spaghetti sauce.

 

Here are the directions on the Basic H (Organic Basic Household Cleaner) Bottle!  You only need to use a little bit!

 

I am in love with their spray bottles!!! SO CUTE! 

So clean and fresh looking!  They make me want to clean, lol!

Check this out, you only need to mix 1/4 teaspoon of Basic H to 16 oz. of water to make an All-Purpose Cleaner!

Look, you only need 1-2 drops of Basic H in 16 oz. of water to make a streak-free window cleaner!  (DO NOT ADD MORE THAN NEEDED!)  I think it works best with THIS window cloth! :)

1 bottle of Basic H²equals the cleaning uses of 5,824 bottles of 26 oz. Windex.  WOW!!!!  To make a gallon of Shaklee Window Cleaner, it would cost you less than a PENNY!!!

This degreaser will clean any amount of grease!

 

This set will clean almost everything in your whole house...

while being toxic-free and money saving! :)

  

Please check out ALL MY CLEANING POSTS for 2010 for ways I used Basic H!

Clean Credentials

Nontoxic

Natural

Doubly concentrated

Biodegradable Surfactants

Top 10 Reasons to LOVE Basic H

 

1. Stop living in a toxic home

Some of the most questionable chemicals used regularly in household products are ammonia, chlorine bleach, phenol, butyl cellosolve, and formaldehyde—all of which can be found under your kitchen sink. Basic H2 is nontoxic and safe for your family.

2. Everything and the kitchen sink

Basic H2 cleans it all from kitchens and bathrooms to appliances, woodwork, mirrors, painted walls, and floors— it even does windows. So, toss those single-purpose cleaners like sink and tile cleaners. Mix ¼ teaspoon in 16 oz. of water in a Get Clean spray bottle for all purpose cleaning, and 2 drops in 16 oz. of water to clean windows.

3. Eliminate your ammonia-based window cleaner

Basic H2 cleans windows without streaking while being a great alternative to leading brands. Basic H2 window cleaner is equivalent in performance to Windex Original.

4. Removes the impossible

From lipstick on a linen napkin to crayons on a painted wall, full-strength Basic H2 comes to the rescue.

5. Great for cutting grease

Tough on greasy barbecue grills, ovens, and even oil spots on concrete. Mix 2 oz. per gallon of water for a superdegreaser formula.

6. Does odd jobs

One tablespoon of Basic H2 in a bucket of hot water lifts off old wallpaper. One and a half teaspoons in a half gallon cleans sticky paintbrushes. Just soak for 24 hours and rinse with hot tap water.

7. Saves money

One 16 oz. bottle of Basic H2 diluted per label directions makes 214 bottles (28 oz.) of ready-to-use all-purpose cleaner.

8. Camping and traveling companion

Take along a small size of Basic H2 to keep clothes, dishes, and everything else clean. And you’ll help by keeping the great outdoors unpolluted.

9. Easy on the planet

Biodegradable and environmentally friendly, Basic H2 handles even hard-to-clean jobs without phosphates, borates, nitrates, or other stuff the planet doesn’t appreciate.

10. Less in the landfill

Basic H2 is superconcentrated, so you’ll use fewer bottles of cleaning products throughout the year.

I know once you try it, you will fall in love like I did and some many others!!!!

GET SOME TODAY HERE!

BETTER TOGETHER with…

Get Clean® Spray Bottles

Super Microfiber Cleaning Cloth

Super Microfiber Window Cloth

Help me spread the word!!!!  Get your FREE BASIC H SAMPLE TODAY!!!!!

Thanks so much!!!!

Have a great day! :)

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JAPAN'S RADIOACTIVE OCEAN

(Credit NASA Earth Observatory.)

It's spring in Japan's ocean waters, the time of highest primary productivity, when lengthening days reawaken the hibernating marine foodweb.

The satellite image above is from the area about 160 kilometers/100 miles north of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It was shot on 21 May 2009 and shows where Japan's two mighty ocean currents—the Kuroshio and the Oyashio—collide.

The convergence zone is awesomely rich. The Oyashio flows down form the Arctic, the Kuroshio up from the subtropics. Where they meet you get all kinds of fascinating expressions of fluid dynamics—highlighted in the image above by eddies colored aquamarine by the presence of intensely blooming phytoplankton.

(Japan's ocean currents: 1. Kuroshio, 7. Oyashio. Credit: Tosaka, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Fluid dynamics drive biological dynamics too, and the phytoplankton are busting their tiny chlorophyll guts, so to speak, feasting in the collision zone—where nutrients are getting churned up from the seafloor to deliver nature's own signature blend of Miracle-Gro.

According to the engineering specs for Earth, without phytoplankton making life from nonlife, there would be little life in the ocean, perhaps none in Japan or just about anywhere else.

But this year the phytoplankton that feed everything else in the sea, one or four trophic levels removed, are likely to be sporting a couple of far-out new ingredients: iodine-131 and cesium-137.

(The coccolithophore Gephyrocapsa oceanica, a type of phytoplankton. Credit: ja:User:NEON / commons:User:NEON_ja, via Wikimedia Commons.)

So what might hefty doses of ionizing radiation mean for phytoplankton, Japanese waters, and the world ocean?

Well, the French group SIROCCO is using its 3D SIROCCO ocean circulation model to investigate the seawater dispersion of Fukushima's radionuclides. You can read about their modeling system here. Basically, they're looking at:

• Bathymetry (undersea topography) around Japan
• Large-scale forcing (e.g., daily sea surface heights, temperatures, salinities, and currents)
• Tides (for this, they've developed a specific regional tidal model)
• Atmospheric forcing (e.g., the radioactive fallout from air to sea via winds and rain)

(A single frame from an animation suggesting possible pathways for radionuclides in Japanese water. Full animation here. Credit: SIROCCO.)

The SIROCCO group stress their disclaimers and I will too: These models are based on mathematical equations too simple to capture the dynamism and complexity of the physical and biological systems at play in the real world.

Still, the models are a great starting point and are sure to get better fast.

So far they suggest that the radionuclides falling from air to sea have spread ~600 kilometers/372 north-south miles along the shore, and ~150 kilometers/93 miles offshore. Dilution goes hand-in-hand with dispersion, though, and these air-to-sea-deposited radionuclides are 20 to 100 times less concentrated in ocean water the farther you move from the Fukushima plant.

However the radionuclides being released directly into the ocean—from TEPCO's purposeful release of 10,000 tons of water, and from as-yet unknown leaking pathways—are acting differently.

(A single frame from an animation showing ocean currents off Japan. Full animation here. Credit: SIROCCO.)

The model suggests these ocean-released radionuclides are being naturally sequestered within 50 kilometers/31 miles of the plant. But they're also more intense—1000 times more so around Fukushima than in the air-to-sea deposits further out.

The good news is that the powerhouse of the Kuroshio Current—a humongous western boundary current like the Gulf Stream—appears to be forming a kind of firewall keeping the contamination away from Tokyo's coast and funneling it east.

You can see that dynamic in the image above. Again, animations here.

(A single frame from an animation suggesting possible vertical dispersion  for radionuclides in Japanese waters. Full animation here. Credit: SIROCCO.)

The SIROCCO model is also forecasting  vertical dispersal in the ocean—an important consideration since at least some radionuclides will get incorporated into seafloor sediments and from there remobilized by living things that chomp on the seafloor. See my earlier post with a graphic showing how this works.

The image above forecasts possible vertical dispersion in the waters closest to the Fukushima plant for those radionuclides released directly into the sea. Animation here.

(Diatoms, types of phytoplankton, as seen through the microscope. Credit: Prof. Gordon T. Taylor, Stony Brook University, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Whatever pathways the Fukushima poisons take, they will certainly alter the springtime blossoming of Japan's ocean, starting with the phytoplankton and working up the foodweb.

As for the effects on the rest of the world ocean, it's a matter of how much, how far, and for how long Fukushima's newborn radionuclides go sailing.

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SUNDAY POETRY: "FIVE VIEWS OF CAPTAIN COOK"

FIVE VIEWS OF CAPTAIN COOK

[A fragment]

by Kenneth Slessor

Flowers turned to stone! Not all the botany   

Of Joseph Banks, hung pensive in a porthole,   

Could find the Latin for this loveliness,   

Could put the Barrier Reef in a glass box   

Tagged by the horrid Gorgon squint

Of horticulture. Stone turned to flowers   

It seemed—you’d snap a crystal twig,   

One petal even of the water-garden,

And have it dying like a cherry-bough.

They’d sailed all day outside a coral hedge,   

And half the night. Cook sailed at night,   

Let there be reefs a fathom from the keel   

And empty charts. The sailors didn’t ask,

Nor Joseph Banks. Who cared? It was the spell   

Of Cook that lulled them, bade them turn below,   

Kick off their sea-boots, puff themselves to sleep,   

Though there were more shoals outside

Than teeth in a shark’s head. Cook snored loudest himself.

(You can read this amazing poem in its entirety at the Poetry Foundation website.)

The illustration of a coral above is by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper from his c.1798 book Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet nebst Beschreibunge.

That translates roughly to: "Images from nature of animal-plants, illuminated with color and descriptions." For more scans of Esper's work, see the digital gallery of Germany's Humboldt University.

HMS Endeavour. 1768. Thomas Luny.

Joseph Banks was the botanist/naturalist who sailed aboard HMS Endeavour on James Cook's first voyage voyage of exploration between 1768 and 1771. 

Among their many shared adventures was a near-sinking after weeks of entrapment (occasionally escaping, only to get sucked back in by winds or currents) in the maze of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. 

Eventually Endeavour was holed on a reef and Cook's men were forced to lay her ashore for seven weeks of repairs. Cook wrote with unusual feeling about his adventures in the coral shallows:

It is but a few days ago that I rejoiced at having got without the Reef, but that joy was nothing when Compared to what I now felt at being safe at Anchor within it, such is the Visissitudes attending this kind of Service & must always attend an unknown Navigation where one steers wholy in the dark without any manner of Guide whatever.

(Les Gibson. Photo by Julia Whitty.)

 

The site of Endeavour's repairs is today known as Cooktown—home then and now to the Guugu Yimithirr people, who taught Cook's men the word ganguru (kangaroo) and who kept them alive with gifts of food and natural history lessons in an unfamiliar landscape/seascape.

I wrote at some length about the Guugu Yimithirr and Cook's legacy in my Mother Jones article Listen to the Lionfish: What Invasive Species Are Trying to Tell Us. 

In the photo above, Les Gibson, a Guugu Yimithirr, is showing me how to "hunt" (fish) near the place where Endeavour limped ashore 232 years earlier.

 

James Cook. c. 1775. Nathaniel Dance.

After his sojourn with the Guugu Yimithirr, after enjoying the bounty of their vibrant world, Cook concluded:

In reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholy unacquainted not only with the superfluous but the necessary conveniencies so much sought after in Europe.

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40 Bags and Organizing Update

Happy weekend!!!!  I hope you are enjoying it so far!  We are going to be busy…again, lol!  Scott and I are going to a big church fundraiser dinner!  That will be fun.  We have a lot of friends at our church.  What are you doing today?

Have you been doing your 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge?

I have been trying, lol!

I have been using organizing everything lately!  I will pretty much go through anything to keep me from organizing my basement, haha!  Actually, it is not that funny,  it needs it BAD!!!

Anyway,  I reorganized my junk drawers again!  (I told you I was doing everything, ha!)

This is our main drawer!  Here, we keep our “daily essentials”. 

  

We usually keep our phones in here at night!  During the day, the don’t leave our side, ha!

 

Golf balls are essential for my hubs…don’t ask me why…I don’t get it either! Lol!

 

Gotta have the shades!  By the way, I just got a new pair at Target ,on clearance for only $4.95!  BooYah!

 

These are the drawers in my butler’s pantry.

 

I keep some of our chargers in here along with some furniture markers (love those), a multi-purpose screwdriver and labeler.

 

Here, I keep some mics. needed stuff!

I also have been busy going through our house.  I found a huge bin of toys to get rid of.

I also went through mu closet again and found A LOT to give to my sisters!!  I still want to go through my closet again.  I am feeling like I want our whole family to have less clothes.  I don’t think we need that much and I hate doing laundry and putting all the clothes away.  I think my life would be easier with less.  I told you here how I went through the boys’ clothes,  I feel way better without it! :)

 

I am linking up to Ann Marie’s 40 Bags in 40 Days link up party!  See ya there! :)

How is your 40 bags/Days going?

Enjoy your weekend! ;)

I am so excited to let you all know Shaklee is offering…

FREE SHAKLEE MEMBERSHIP with only a $30 order!!

Click HERE for details and click HERE for ordering info :)

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NEW SPECIES OF ARSENIC-EATING SEA MONKEY!

(Photo via Think Geek.)

From Think Geek, the exciting news today that the sea monkeys living in Mono Lake, California, are eating the arsenic-fueled bacteria recently discovered by NASA scientists.

Better yet, you can now grow these dream pets from Instant Live Eggs in your very own own Sea Monkey® habitat. And you can WATCH THEM NOSH ARSENIC—The King of Poisons!—in your spare time.

Because of this cryptobiosis and the fact that Sea Monkeys breed at an alarming rate, we have tons of eggs which we can now offer to all of you. That's right, you can get your very own Arsenic-Based Sea Monkeys today!

Straight from Mono Lake (just like GFAJ-1), these Arsenic-Based Sea Monkeys are 100% pure science and 100% fun, which means 200% awesome for you!

The paper:

• Felisa Wolfe-Simon, JS Blum, TR Kulp, GW Gordon, SE Hoeft, J Pett-Ridge, JF Stolz, SM Webb, PK Weber, PCW Davies, AD Anbar, RS Oremland. A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus. Science. DOI:10.1126/science.1197258

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How to get a FREE SHAKLEE MEMBERSHIP

Hi again!  In this morning’s post, I told you about Shaklee’s Earth Day Special!!!

I have been getting questions on how to order Shaklee with the free membership!

Apparently, Shaklee is still working on the site to get this special. 

To order…

Place the items that you want in your cart.  (You need at least $30 of product at member’s price (15% discount)

Join as a Shaklee member for $19.95  (Fill out the application)

Pay for items

Place Order

You will be charged the $19.95 at first and then reimbursed when it ships.  (After a couple of days, everything will be automatic but I know several of you just can’t wait!!!)

I hope this helps!

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Please contact my for other new member specials!

If you already placed your order this morning and did not fill out the application, please call  (800)SHAKLEE.

Thank you and sorry about any inconveniences! :)

Have a great day!

P.S. I thought you would enjoy this organizing video! :)

 

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Spring Cleaning and Shaklee Special

Hello everyone!  First,  I would like to THANK everyone who ordered Shaklee from me!  (Please grab a button from my side bar)  I am so happy to share Shaklee with you!! :)  I LOVE helping others!!!  If you have been thinking about trying Shaklee, this is a great time to try!  Shaklee has a great Earth Day Special going on right now.  (More info at the bottom of this post!)

Now, on to cleaning and organizing!  Woo Hoo!

We have been busy around here!  (Well, when are we not, haha!)

The BIG PROJECT that I told you about has been put on hold because of all the family events that we have doing.  (Those always come first!)  But I will give you an update!

We are re-organizing our garage!  I think that we have a great, organized garage…

…but…

I like I told you here, we got a new family member.  Not by my choice! 

(picture taken from iphone)

Yes, my husband got his dream Harley without thinking where it would fit in out 2 1/2 car garage! 

Isn’t that a total guy thing?

(that extra 1/2 is already packed with tools, junk, bikes and toys.)

Anyway, I had to find a way to make it fit!

Don't’ worry, he did all the real work, heehee! :)  I just came up with the plan.

I had him take down my organizers.  (Don’t worry, something else is going there.)

He did prep work.

 

He had to gather all his junk that was on his work bench and go through it!!! 

 

 

We don’t have room for it anymore.

Say bye-bye!

I had him put in new shelves for all our stuff.

The shelves go around half our garage.   I can fit a little over 30 large bins on them!!!  YEAH!!!!!  I LOVE BINS!

 

I LOVE these shelves!!!!

  

While he worked, the kids played!

 

And I took everything off our front porch and gave it a good sweeping, blowing and I washed the windows!

   

Oh yeah!  He also washed out the garage!  I am liking this! :)

 

We have more to do but I am lovin’ this so far!!!  I love an organized garage!!! 

I will show you more when we finish!

What spring cleaning projects have you been working on?

Link up about posts below to show us!!

 

 

Now on to Shaklee’s EARTH DAY SPECIAL!!!

I am so excited to let you all know Shaklee is offering…

 FREE SHAKLEE MEMBERSHIP with only a $30 order!!

That is our BEST Join Free Offer yet!

A Shaklee membership gives you…

15% discount (off retail prices) on product purchases

Special promotions, offers and discounts

Unconditional money-back guarantee

Access to MyShaklee.com, Shaklee’s center for health and wellness news and information from Shaklee’s Health Sciences Team, and product experts

There are NO MINIMUMS to maintain your membership! :)

SHAKLEE WANTS TO HELP 50,000 FAMILIES GET HEALTHIER IN THE NEXT 7 WEEKS!

I am on a mission to help them! :)

Consider this: one family deciding to convert to our non-toxic biodegradable household cleaners keeps the equivalent of 5,000 bottles of conventional "ready-to-use" glass cleaner out of landfills. What would it mean if 50,000 families did the same? A great big thanks from the planet, and from people all over the world who share this wonderful home we call Earth.

If you have been considering becoming a distributor, you can now get more!!!  Contact me for more info.

Also, please contact me for MY NEW MEMBER SPECIALS!!!

GO HERE TO ORDER!!!!

Have a great weekend!

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