April 1, 2007

took the day off from the computer and magazine today. Unless the computer is broken I work here every day, 7 days a week. I decided I should take the day off. 

I went out to Highland Clover Farm for once. That is the name of Amy's farm. She usually comes here as she drives 'by us' on the way to and from her home. We made Calendula foot powder from the Calendula I harvested out of my garden last summer and I have determined I need to plant alot more this year. I think I will have a 3 foot wide row of it. "Orange Zinger" is the variety I grow these days. I have gone through a gallon jar this winter. 

After that we made the 'cure all' cream as my "MIL" and I have broken into weird skin rashes, her on her palm and me on my left forearm. I stopped by the vet clinic and put a Woods Lamp on me and determined it is not ringworm, which I did have a couple weeks ago and the Clotrimazole cream cleared up.. it is not working on this one. At the moment I am calling it "Mongolian Body Rot".. ok.. yeah.. that sounds over melodramatic. But when I went to my doctor in Oregon when I had the same kind of rash, she said she had no idea what it was and I called it that and she said that was as good of a name as any for it. But I could not find any beewax at my house, so it is a lotion instead. I think I will have to remill it with some beeswax to thicken it up.

Then Amy and I made mouthwash, remilled soap pieces we made a few weeks ago, and took the trimmings and made 2 new soaps of about 5 oz bars and added essential oils into them to make them anti-mosquito soaps as 'skeeter season' will be here soon. And I took more 'scraps' and made a beer shampoo for my hair. I like it. I did not even have to use a conditioner to get a comb through my hair. I was not too sure at first and it is root beer brown, and I hope it does not darken my blonde hair.

I was not into making a new batch of soap, but Amy talked me into it and it is the first batch even which did not work out right. It would not trace. So we inquired to Mary via email and she called Amy (I had to leave to turn 84 eggs in the incubator) and she had her reheat it (on the woodstove) and then it would trace IMMEDIATELY!! So Amy got to make soap all by herself the first time.

I got home, turned eggs, helped feed cows, picked up eggs from the flock and since my guy had dinner on the go, I decided I was going to get past page 38 of my book I got at a second hand store awhile back ago, so I crawled into bed at 6 pm and I read until 1 am. The book is "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. It is like a historical romance I guess and I have not got to read that kind of book for a long time. I think it was well deserved.