October 19, 2008

  was talking to Bren today about that I was going to need some hobbies to do during the winter at his place, as I would potentially go stark raving mad from the lack of chores, lack of running dogs, lack of my spinning wheel/looms. I was talking knitting and he came up with the smart idea of doing something for the cabin before we built and moved into it.

He does stained glass, so today he bought some of the tools he did not have previously so we can do them for our kitchen cupboards. We have not chosen a pattern/s yet, but I found a couple that I like. The jury is still out on what we will finally start working on. On a couple of them he asked, "Do you realize how many pieces that is??". I told him everyone thought I was insane for starting to knitting socks before I even knew what knit and purl was and that I always tend to try the hardest things first. It's just me.

While I was working from early this morning until mid-afternoon for the paper, the guys continued on the Fall cleaning  at his house which had been started a few weekends ago. I told them that chemical housecleaners were bad, that I could hardly breathe and I have only used borax, vinegar, salt and lemon juice for my house for years. 

Bren found out that maybe chemical cleaners are not the way to go. His  complexion got a little blotchy.. for at least 5 hours thus far after he was using them. All of his face, neck and arms turned red and blotchy where his skin was exposed. I asked him what was wrong and he is the one who blamed the chemicals. Since then we have had a discussion on which cleansers he could live without and which ones he thought he needed. He did pick the less smelly ones which are less hazardous without my encouragement. I noted alot of the chemicals had multiple sides to the warning label. The more sides there are, the more toxic the product.