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We just got home last evening from a family vacation to Wyoming.

For some reason, a trip to the Tetons always makes me feel like I am going home….

As I drive into view of those distinctive mountains, I break into song….   John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High…  much to the dismay of my family I am sure!

Because of the cold, wet spring, the crops and wild flowers are weeks late in Idaho and Wyoming this year.

This meant that we were treated with a magnificent display of wild flowers.  It also meant there were no Huckleberries to be had.  I’m seriously contemplating a camping trip back there again in August, just to see if I can lay my hands on my favorite berry.

Everything was especially beautiful this year.  The days were warm (not hot) and the nights wonderfully cool.

Few things that can fill my soul like a trip to the Tetons…

This morning I feel ready to conquer the world…. or at the very least, my very dirty laundry pile.

I’m a bit obsessed with lemons this week.  It must be the new site.

I do promise this blog will cover subjects other than lemons in the very near future.

But for today, I couldn’t resist one more lemon post.  Plus this is a wonderful tip to have in your arsenal of stain fighters.

Did you know?  Lemon is a great laundry stain fighter.

Remember those teenage days of squeezing lemon juice in your hair and laying out in the sun to bleach it summer blond?  (OK, fine!  I am a brunette and I never squeezed lemon in my hair, it probably would have turned it orange or something terrible… but all my fair haired friends did it!)

Long story short, lemon works like a non-toxic, earth-friendly, inexpensive bleach.

As a bleach, lemon juice is suitable for whites.  It will bleach your clothes.  Don’t use it on any colored garment, unless you like light bleach stains.

Lemon juice works great on fruit or fruit juice stains.  It also works like a champ on those pesky rust stains.

Here’s how I use lemon to fight stains.

1.  Make Ina Garten’s Linguine with Shrimp Scampi and groan because your dinner is so good!  Make sure to leave some juice from one of the lemons.  That will be for laundry the next day.  Or buy an extra lemon if you have a lot of stains.

2. You don’t need to follow step one.  But you’ll be sorry if you don’t.

3. Squeeze the lemon juice so that it saturates your stain.

4. Place the garment with lemon juice in the sun to bleach.

5. After a few hours, launder as usual.

6. Make sure the stain is totally gone before placing in a dryer.

7. If the stain persists… repeat the process.

I don’t remember ever having to repeat the process.  This works like a charm every time on rust and fruit stains.

And the best part:  you might even enjoy doing laundry, it smells so good.