Have ready:
1/4 cup borax
1/2 cup washing soda (sodium carbonate = Na2CO3). Sold with soap. Also sold as "pH Up" for swimming pools, or make your own by cooking baking soda (sodium bicarbonate = NaHCO3) in the oven at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes.
1/2 bar of soap grated into curls
2 1/2 gallon bucket with 1 1/2 gallons (= 192 ounces) of very warm water
2 1/2 cups (=20 ounces) of simmering water
A long-handled stirring spoon
PROCEDURE:
Stir the grated soap into the simmering water. Smash it up. Add it into the 2 1/2 gallon bucket of very warm water. Stir in the washing soda for 1 minute. Scrape the bottom. Stir in the borax for 1 minute. Let it sit for 24 hours. Bottle. Use 1 cup per load.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Skin health
Temperatures persisting at 100 degrees F. and quite humid. Heat is enervating.
Sun is healthy for skin, but not sunburn. I like to use zinc oxide (order a pound from the pharmacist for about $15) and lanolin or coconut butter or glycerin or any fat and make a cream. (I would avoid all soy and canola and corn and other GMO's.) I would add any fresh ground fruit or vegetable with yellow or orange or red flesh, such as carrot, beet, orange, mango, avocado, watermelon, squash, pineapple.
This is also a good deodorant, and is also a good hair conditioner.
Sun is healthy for skin, but not sunburn. I like to use zinc oxide (order a pound from the pharmacist for about $15) and lanolin or coconut butter or glycerin or any fat and make a cream. (I would avoid all soy and canola and corn and other GMO's.) I would add any fresh ground fruit or vegetable with yellow or orange or red flesh, such as carrot, beet, orange, mango, avocado, watermelon, squash, pineapple.
This is also a good deodorant, and is also a good hair conditioner.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Birds in June, 2010
Ides of June. Hot. Humid. But still beautiful here next to the beach. We have rabbits, squirrels, and lots of pretty birds, such as red-headed woodpeckers, cardinals, blue jays, doves, wrens, finches and the like.
Seems that the earth's magnetic shield is dissolving and will flip soon according to a Netflix movie "Magnetic Storm: Nova". North will become South. Fascinating.
Seems that the earth's magnetic shield is dissolving and will flip soon according to a Netflix movie "Magnetic Storm: Nova". North will become South. Fascinating.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Winter
Last week we got lots of snow - looks to me like about fourteen inches. I love snow in the winter. Joseph Andrew Stack piloted his plane into an IRS building and died, seems he was just that frustrated with his tax situation. He said that communism is from each according to ability and to each according to need. He contrasted capitalism saying that capitalism is from each according to gullibility and to each according to greed. I thought that clever.
Monday, August 17, 2009
August 17, Happy Birthday, Charlie
Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Dear Charlie, happy birthday to you. And many, many more!!!
I will try to make a birthday cake.
We are going to be packing and moving. Looks like Roger will help us.
We will be moving the first week in September.
I will try to make a birthday cake.
We are going to be packing and moving. Looks like Roger will help us.
We will be moving the first week in September.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Dr. Jay's birthday, August 12
Happy Birthday, dear Jay, happy birthday to you. And many, many more.
It looks like Charlie will retire soon. They want him to work overtime 10 hour days and often Saturdays on top of that, It seems just too much. So we are thinking of going back to Morehead City and packing up and selling our beach house in Newport and buying a house in beautiful Arkansas.
It looks like Charlie will retire soon. They want him to work overtime 10 hour days and often Saturdays on top of that, It seems just too much. So we are thinking of going back to Morehead City and packing up and selling our beach house in Newport and buying a house in beautiful Arkansas.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Visit Us Before We Move; Southwest Airlines"
When will we leave Fort Campbell, Kentucky? Charlie is on a travelling team modifying six aircraft here. The team has to do it correctly or people will die, so time is not a consideration. His assignment here will last as long as it takes for the team to do the job the best possible safest way. The current estimate is that the team will be finished sometime between October, 2009 and December, 2009. Then the team moves on to modify another group of aircraft in Pennslyvania.
Last night we saw an unusual and good movie from Netflix, "A Man Called Horse". It is timeless and may be just as relevant one hundred years from now as when it was made.
Anyone who wants to visit us, we have a sofa-bed in our small living room. The nearest commercial passenger airport is Nashville Metropolitan Airport (IATA code is BNA) at 1 Terminal Drive, Nashville, TN 37214, phones are (615) 275-0147, -1675, and it is 73.91 miles southeast.
For an airline, I would choose SWA - Southwest - www.southwest.com and click on "Travel Tools" which gives a calendar displaying fares on each day, and one can choose the lowest fares which are called "wanna get away". Today I see some one-way $99 fares starting August 19, 2009.
One could use the Jarmon or Clarksville Airport Shuttle for ground transportation to Hopkinsville. See www.flynashville.com/Ground_trans/bus.aspx for phone numbers of about eight shuttle companies to make appointments and get estimates.
Our apartment is in a cove a few feet off the main drag which is about 2500 block of Fort Campbell Boulevard. See you soon ?
Last night we saw an unusual and good movie from Netflix, "A Man Called Horse". It is timeless and may be just as relevant one hundred years from now as when it was made.
Anyone who wants to visit us, we have a sofa-bed in our small living room. The nearest commercial passenger airport is Nashville Metropolitan Airport (IATA code is BNA) at 1 Terminal Drive, Nashville, TN 37214, phones are (615) 275-0147, -1675, and it is 73.91 miles southeast.
For an airline, I would choose SWA - Southwest - www.southwest.com and click on "Travel Tools" which gives a calendar displaying fares on each day, and one can choose the lowest fares which are called "wanna get away". Today I see some one-way $99 fares starting August 19, 2009.
One could use the Jarmon or Clarksville Airport Shuttle for ground transportation to Hopkinsville. See www.flynashville.com/Ground_trans/bus.aspx for phone numbers of about eight shuttle companies to make appointments and get estimates.
Our apartment is in a cove a few feet off the main drag which is about 2500 block of Fort Campbell Boulevard. See you soon ?
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