LENA BLOG

I have been happily volunteering at Colorado Horse Rescue  (CHR) since February 2013. I am in the sun for most of my 2-3 hour shift. Becau se I ’ m around horses I have on jeans and cowboy boots, and I also wear a long-sleeved shirt under my CHR T -shirt to keep my arms from burning. And to protect my all- important hands, I have on thick leather gloves. (I know — hot, right?!) Along with the obligatory sunscreen, I always wear a bandana around my neck . I do this to protect the skin on my ne ck from sun damage. I n the summer, I ’ll wet the bandana before I put it on; this helps to keep me cool ed off a bit . At the end of my shift and after a lot of sweating, before the sunscreen and sweat start to dry, I splash rinse my face and use the bandana to wipe and dry off my face. Wearing a bandana —or something like it—is a good idea, even if you ’ re out walking. (With other exercising activities, like running and cycling , it ’ s a bit harder to pull off wearin...

I love lemons, lemon juice, and my little electric fruit juicing machine I purchased many years ago. I have a real juicer, but the machine I’m talking about just juices fruit. It’s super easy and not a pain to clean like a real juicer. Since I love to have real lemon juice squeezed into my water, or in tea, or when I make the Master Cleanser drink (lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper), I pretty much always have lemons in my kitchen. I’m also lazy, or perhaps it’s because I’m practical. No matter, I simply don’t love juicing 1/2 of a lemon, leaving the other half sitting around (no doubt losing potency) as well as having to constantly clean my little fruit juicer. So I came up with a great idea (I am sure I’m not the first): putting fresh squeezed lemon juice into ice trays, then freezing for future use. That I am not the inventor of this was evidenced by the amount of photos of lemon juice in ice cube trays when I went searching for a photo for this article, ...