CULT: Recycling markers

I 'discovered' by accident this year something that probably
everyone else knows: how to reuse markers by taking off the
permanent ink black lettering. As everything else in my life, I
stumbled onto it. 

The mosquitoes/black flies get the credit for this one. I had an
old squirt plastic bottle of Avon 'Skin So Soft' in my gardening
hand-held cart as a mosquito repellent this summer. Sometimes I
just squirt it in the air hoping a mosquito will hit it. Anyway,
some of it landed on a metal marker that was laying in my
basket.

The darn ink melted and was invisible. Heartened, I ran in the
house and tried it on a bunch of old markers that I refused to
throw away. It worked again and so did Canola oil..probably any
oil would do. The only drawback is to make sure you dry the oil
before marking again...ink adheres better. It also works on
those little plastic markers that everyone has hanging around.

I am sure you all know this already but I didn't.

Ellen in the NH mountains with no rain today... 

President Calvin Coolidge (a Vermonter):

In 1929 - RPerhaps one of the most important accomplishments of
my administration has been minding my own business.S

(from Wicked Cool Stuff about Vermont)

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