I use paper towels for many of the uses named above. I buy a large package of paper towels at Sam's Club and that will supply our house for several months. I keep a roll of paper towels in the garage and one in the car. Those are rally handy for the dirty jobs around a car: 1. Wiping head lamps. (Use only on glass; do not use on plastic lenses of lamp housings. Paper towels are too abrasice for plastic lenses.) 2. Check oil level. 3. Hand wipe before grabbing the steering wheel after completing a dirty job. 4. Changing high temperature halogen lamps. Use a clean paper towel to grasp the new bulb while installing to keep finger oils off the bulb.

To use a hair dryer you should use it on the cool cycle, as the heat will keep them soft. In a salon they use a nail drying machine and it just fans the nails with no heat.

Depending on how ambered the finish is, its probably going to require bit of tinting. Which usually takes a professional to get it just right, but if you are patient and willing to experiment you can usually get pretty close. So you will want to sand the area with 100grit paper, hand sand, no machines. then apply one coat of polyurethane straight. no tint. let that dry. scuff the area with 150-180 grit, clean and apply a second coat of poly. this is usually where i will try to tint. you will probably want a yellowish tint. not bright yellow, more a darker yellow. since the area is small...get a dixie cup, fill about halfway with poly, and litterally only 1 drop of the tint. mix well and apply a light coat, and this is where your eye has to come into play. take a look, if its not enough tint, add one more drop...Only add a drop at a time, the tints are powerful and can become wasted if adding too much (hence why only using a dixie cup too) once you think you got it, let it dry and then ever sooo slightly scuff a little bit, not too much or you will remove the tint. then add one more light coat of regular polyurethane. make sure you feather out the strokes to help blend with the existing floor. you may notice the repair for a little while but after normal traffic hopefully it will blend nicely.

What are Rose Borers? There are actually several wasps and bees that nest in the center pith of cut rose bush canes. The cane boring insects bore a hole down into the center pith of the rose canes in order to create nests for their young. The two most common cane borers are actually small wasps. They are very active at seeking out the cut ends of rose canes to bore down into from early spring all the way through early fall. The most common cane borers are predators of aphids and use them to feed their young, thus they are a mix of good guy and bad guy in our rose beds. Rose borer damage can be easily spotted by the hole they leave in the center pith of the cut rose canes. Girdling may also be seen along the stem. The depth of the boring itself may only be a few inches deep, while the most damaging and life threatening to the rose bush can go all the way to the main crown of the plant.-