January 14, 2007 at 8:46 pm (The Corners Of My Home)
Originally uploaded by GaiasRose.
This is one of our bookshelves. I have an immense love of reading and will read just about anything set in front of me. This shelf also has some very special things on it. The tractor is a Farmall and is a working replica of the one he is on in the picture right next to it, as well as the one he and I are both on in the picture the furthest left.
January 14, 2007 at 10:02 am (Cleaning, Cookbook, Environment, Faeries, Family, Farm, Friends, General Musings, Home Remedy, Household, How-to, Inspiration, Kitchen, Love, Magick, Pagan, Weather, Witch, World, crazy silly happy fun time)
I have had three days of no shampoo. I am never buying shampoo again, and I have Rob convinced as well. We are using nothing more than simple baking soda and water to wash and apple cider vinegar to rinse. My hair has never felt better. Not only is it better for me, it’s better for the planet and better for the bank account. I love it!
What gets me though is that I had never heard of this before! Why hadn’t I heard of this? Why was I stuck-as a friggen Witch-for so many years using crap that clogs up my skin and my hair? oh yeah, that’s right, baking soda and apple cider vinegar don’t drive the market on hair care and people really don’t care.
I used it on Grace yesterday. Afterward, Her hair was the easiest to get through than it has ever been. SOLD!
In other news, we bought a weather station yesterday at Fleet Farm (told you we loved Fleet Farm.) It gives us all matter of information and has SOLAR panels so we have weather info even if for some reason we don’t have power. The solar panels were the selling point (Should be for $300!!) It’s a pretty ahndy little piece of equipment though. Rob is busy setting up the outdoor elements to it right now. It has a rain gauge that reads the rainfall and reports back to the main unit, a wind thingy, an outdoor temp and humidy barometer windchill etc. thing and an indoor temp and humidity thing. All of it gathers the info and feeds it back to this very light weight, green touch pad that tells us everything we need to know, plus the time and history and a few other thing. It’s really kinda neat. It will go up in the kitchen where we plan to put our base CB unit. We are geeky like that.
In Pagan news, we have a very close person to us who is asking questions and I fear that it may be because ANOTHER close person to him is pushing him too hard. I don’t want him to want to walk this kind of path unless he truly, heartily wants it. Though antagonizing this other person because of the pressure is hilarious to me-ah well. I have never educated a person who wants to walk a Pagan path before. I have only vaguely educated non-Pagans about the things which I believe, and even then it was VERY vague as, once you get talking, to most people who are not Pagan, about Paganism, they kinda shut off. It’s disheartening, ESPECIALLY when it is people who are suppose to care for you and be interested in you and your life. Ignorance is bliss I suppose.
So this was a tiny rambling post. Just a few things I felt the need to share with you. We are getting eggs left and right from the chicken-yay breakfast! and still getting the house organized after the holiday. For every step forward, I take two steps back with the girls….I start making my headway and then something else gets mussed….oh well, they are only little for awhile.
I will have photos and the instructins for my homemade chicken and wild rice soup later on ass well as my “Corners of MY Home” for the week. The soup is cooking in my new 16 quart stock pot as I type. Time to go listen to NPR and clean up the kitchen and feed and water the chicken.
