If you have any mouse droppings in your house the first need is to get rid of any infestation. You may need the help of a professional exterminator. But cleaning up the droppings itself takes a little know-how. These droppings have a lot of germs and should be handled carefully.

Wearing rubber gloves, pick up the droppings with a paper towel and dispose of them. Then spray the surface where the droppings were with disinfectant or a bleach solution (10% bleach in water is recommended). Alcohol also works--a 70% strength is recommended. Then wash the surface.

 

Hears a cheer for a readily available cleaning product that works great and is easy to use: Method's Bathroom Cleaner. This is a good cleaner for bathrooms that gets up soap scum but can be used for greasy counters in the kitchen as well. It is also environmentally friendly and not toxic.

Here is another installment in my occasional series on efficiency in cleaning. These principles are also applicable to other activities. Today's topic is working with your body. Often efficiency is thought about strictly in terms of the task at hand--conceptually breaking down its parts to consider the labor-saving possibilities in each. This is of course very helpful but one also wants to consider the way one's own body works when thinking things through.

A simple example is the order in which you clean a house. I enjoy cleaning but I do find that I get tired over the course of cleaning a home. So I set about a cleaning job by starting with those tasks that benefit from having high energy, which I have at the beginning. Most often, and especially in larger homes, this involves dusting and then vacuuming the entire home first off. This allows me to work faster and to get less tired over the course of the cleaning. 

Whatever the activity, a little attention to how your body works can save time and energy and make the task more comfortable.

In natural health circles there's a lot of skepticism about vaccines and particularly the COVID vaccine since it's a brand new technology and was moved quickly through development. I share some of this skepticism but decide to get a vaccine nonetheless. My thinking was simple: COVID is a serious risk, too great to ignore and greater than the risks of a new technology, and there is no other way to contain the virus at this point and prevent needless thousands more deaths. Everyone must decide for themselves, but I hope most people come to the same conclusion.