Green Good Luck
Green Good Luck
Parties On the Day After New Year’s Eve With Good Luck Foods
Planning events for the day after New Year’s Eve will set you party or celebration apart from the crowd. There are great choices for New Years Day festivities. How early you want to start the activities depends to some extent on how your guests pick to celebrate the holiday. If you plan well in advance and you know the guests are going to be bright eyed and ready to go early in the morning, then consider a shopping party to catch the New Year’s Day sales and after Christmas discounts. Plan in advance with your guests to have everyone come armed with sales papers, coupons and ads. Spend the morning shopping for bargains and then have a relaxing lunch at a hip restaurant before continuing the shopping party. Keep the costs down with free printable New Year’s invitations.
Festivities for the day after New Year’s Eve may include inviting guests to a “living healthy in the New Year” party. If you have exercise equipment to use that’s great, but it isn’t necessary. You can get a few exercise DVDs and clear a space for guests to exercise or plan a good route for a group hike. For food, try fresh fruits and a veggie tray. Sandwiches made with turkey or chicken and whole wheat bread work well along with fruit juice drinks. Get everyone involved by having them bring their special recipe.
Of course events for the day after New Year’s Eve may include a football event. Send out invites several weeks in advance and then because this is such a busy season, send out, “looking forward to seeing you at the party” reminders. Have party supplies of your favorite team for decorations. Use a football field tablecloth and put snacks and sandwiches on football shaped trays. Have themed party blowers as decorations on the refreshment table and also sprinkled throughout the room so guests can use them during the game. Try placing a large sign on one wall that reads, “Time to Party!” Scatter some themed toy musical instruments throughout the room so guests can play with them. Nerd type toys can also be thrown around even at the TV screen.
In many households, the Festivities for the day after New Year’s Eve include traditional New Year’s Day “lucky” food. Different cultures have different foods which when consumed on New Year’s Day are said to bring good luck. In the southern United States collard greens or cabbage, black-eyed peas and pork are often the traditional lucky New Year’s Day meal. The collard greens and cabbage stand for paper money and the black-eyed peas for pocket change. One Asian tradition has long noodles which must be eaten without breaking any, as the lucky New Years food. Invite family and friends to a Lucky New Year’s Day event and serve them several dishes that should bring them good luck in the New Year.
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Mrs. Party… Gail Leino gives her two cents worth on entertaining at the holidays with a New Years eve bash. Plus, she generously provides information on free
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I have owned a swimming pool for over twenty years and have had good luck, but now have 0.09 copper level.?
My water is slightly green, all chemistry is perfect accept the copper level. What product do I use to bring it down to zero? The pool stores want me to buy their expensive chemicals, but maybe you may have another cheap way on reducing the copper level.
Thanks for your help.
Chuck Hamerton
chamerton@comcast.net
Unfortunately short of draining the pool and refilling it there is nothing you can do to remove the copper. Note I said remove, not stabilize and I will explain this later. I’m answering your question directly but also adding things you probably already know for others who may read this…
There are many ways to get copper into your pool, and if you’ve had it for twenty years without problem then the most likely cause is the addition of the copper through an algaecide. These contain copper concentrations and are recommended to be used by the pool store, but are really more harmful than good. Another way of getting copper into your pool is to have a heat exchanger or copper piping in your system and then having the alkalinity and pH of your pool fall into acidic levels. This will leech copper from the surfaces containing it and then suspend them in the water. Since your pool has been up and running for twenty years without problem, it is HIGHLY unlikely that your water chemistry changed in the refill water, so one of the above is likely a problem (or someone dropped a penny into the pool and you missed it).
Now that you know what causes copper in your pool, let’s talk about why you can’t get rid of it.
Once the concentrations start approaching 1ppm you will have a blue-green tint to the water. This increases the chances of having the copper “drop” from the water whenever other conditions are met. This can stain hair, clothing, and pool surfaces. Of course once the copper is “dropped” from the water then you can clean tiles with a weak muratic acid solution and you will have no more copper in your pool (this includes draining it to reach the lowest parts, so why not drain it in the first place).
As for the pool store chemicals, well there’s a problem. These are chelating materials and they don’t remove copper no matter how much the guys behind the counter claim they do. What they do is bind with the copper and keep it in a solution in the water in a molecular form that is unlikely to “drop” from the water. You will still have your copper levels, but it will clear the water up for you somewhat. As you know this is an expensive solution to the problem, and really isn’t a solution at all since it just masks the copper… like fixing a car by giving it a new paint job.
You can accidentally force the copper out of the water by changing water chemistry in a drastic way (adding calcium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate on the same day, these are Calcium Hardness Increaser and pH UP respectively). The problem here is most of the time you are only following the pool stores instructions, like shocking the pool and adjusting pH on the same day, adjusting calcium hardness and pH on the same day, shocking the pool and adjusting calcium hardness on the same day, etc.
The only way to get rid of the copper in the water is to drain and refill the pool with clean water, or force “drop” the copper out of the water and then clean it off the bottom. Adding the pool store chemicals only mask the problem and don’t solve it. Depending on the solution you want (mask or ridding of it) will determine what you do.
I can also help you get rid of the pool store all together and run your pool from the grocery store for drastically less money. Grocery store chemicals are chemically exactly the same as the pool store stuff. I’ve been asked to speak and teach by my local health department on how to get folks off the pool store addiction. Just drop me an email if you want to learn more.
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