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[maidenwolfx80]

x2. I figure if I am clean and using the towel just to dry off the (clean) water from the shower, then why would the towel need to be washed after? As long as it has a place to thoroughly dry, I will use the same towel for awhile. And yep, the same jeans go on day after day unless I kneel in chicken poop or get splashed in mud or spill something on them. Clothes (any fabric really) last a lot longer if they aren't washed too often.

I did try this a couple of years ago. The "recipe" I got from another forum was to use a couple of tablespoons of baking soda and massage that into the scalp, and then rinse with 1/4-1/2 cup of vinegar. At first I loved it - it sizzled up nicely and "felt" like it was doing good things for my hair. And the first few times, my hair felt really soft and clean afterward. But with extended use, I found I had some sort of build-up in my hair and it started to look dull and listless. So I went back to using a commercial shampoo. It might be something that is good to do some of the time, as long as you use a real shampoo intermittently to avoid the build-up.

Isn't coconut oil pretty expensive? My SIL uses it in cooking a lot since her family went paleo, but when I priced it once at the grocery store, I just couldn't put any in my basket because it was so high.

Use coconut oil in its more solid form , the less proccessing the better for you and the less expensive. I buy it from the herb shop in 4 0z tubs she sells bigger ones too . I have had this one 4 oz tub for 6 months and I use it daily. I forget the price on it but it will be listed on the website. WWW.lifethymebotanicals.com

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Had to jump back on quickly to share a link my daughter found as we explore some soap making options for Christmas gifts- it includes EGGS
http://www.soap-making-resource.com/shampoo-bar-recipe.html
Sounds way to complicated for me right now, but Maidenwolf, with your connections to essential oils and experience.... Might be a cool thing to add to an etsy shop!!! I would buy it
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I have never been on etsy I will have to look at it. I am not familiar with what they do or sell really. But it is a good thing to look at for sure.

I got my first easter egger egg yesterday.


Here is Beast the black cochin I got from chicken danz, nevermind the wd-40!

This is Beauty the cochinx

 

[sharol]

I hear you on the reviews. A year or so ago I had to replace my washer. The reviews on the front loaders were so varied that I didn't know which way to go. It seemed like the reviewers who had had them only a little while loved them, and the people who had had them for a longer period were having problems. My repairman said that you either got a good one or not and that it didn't seem to make much difference what model you bought. He recommended buying one from a store with in-house repair service. I ended up buying an HE top loader. It was expensive, but I love it so far. It gets the clothes so dry on spin that they dry in the dryer in much less time. The only time it gets unbalanced is when I put the quilt I use for the dogs (on the sofa) in it by itself. It doesn't walk around when it gets off balance, it just shuts down, and you have to change the cycle to rinse and spin when it stalls. The upside is that it doesn't stall until the final rinse/spin anyway so you don't waste time. I also like the idea of not having to lean over to transfer stuff out of it to the dryer. It is a Maytag (and I swore I would NEVER buy another Maytag appliance after my refrigerator, dishwasher, and stove debacle (that's a whole different story).

I don't think they make high efficiency dryers (at least they didn't when mine shot craps about the same time as the washer). You can do better, but not much. I dry what I can on the line -- towels, jeans, sheets, quilts- when the weather cooperates.

I'd like to get an energy efficient washer and dryer but I keep reading reviews about problems associated with them. I'm hoping they will work out some of the bugs. My washer is far too little capacity and I hate it. I really want a bigger one. More clothes= less loads. I would also have to have a top loading washer because bending down to even take clothes in and out of the dryer is hard for me.

 

[Kansas Prairie]

45 mph wind with gusts to 65mph, low visibility due to dirt in the air. Fun watching the turkeys play in the wind. Chickens are less playful.

 

[tweetysvoice]

Always fun to drop in and see what the local chit chat is! Hi everyone....

Hey stranger!! Good to see you again!

I have never been on etsy I will have to look at it. I am not familiar with what they do or sell really. But it is a good thing to look at for sure.

Etsy is a place that people sell homecrafted items. There are some cute things that you can't find in store there. Good for the "hard to shop for"!

I got my first easter egger egg yesterday.


Yay!!! That's a big gorgeous egg for being the first!!

45 mph wind with gusts to 65mph, low visibility due to dirt in the air. Fun watching the turkeys play in the wind. Chickens are less playful.

It's horrible windy here in Lawrence as well. Thought I was going to get blown over while shopping this morning!
I hope everyone enjoys their day! I have my granddaughter coming over for a few hours tonight, so here's to hoping I can keep the nausea at bay for that time!!

 

[mommahen10]

Danz, that would be an amazing idea to make a booklet. That's a great idea to heat the lotion to salvage what's left. I just put my bottles upside down on top of another bottle and leave them for a long time. Do you ever feel like if you're going to lay there awake worrying that you may as well sit out there on guard? I've done that. The other night when we did the rooster's spurs we heard coyotes from two different directions and we were right in the middle, it was so creepy. I worried so much, finally I just got up and checked on them all. That's crazy about your rooster hanging by his spurs, poor boy. How on earth did he manage to do that? That's amazing how strong they are too. I do that too, and I wonder why I feel so ragged doing so much by myself. I need to deligate more. My 15 yo can run a bobcat and a tractor, and they only can do little amounts of concrete work. Like Quik Crete. One thing I read about the nipple waters are that they can't have a lot of pressure behind them too. I saw that some people are caulking around them too. Nope, that's not so exciting. I thought you were getting new fancy eggs. We have Heartland Rural Electric, when we moved in here that first year the bills never got over $300. I know we added more people too and some of it has to be prices going up. Maybe we should check our windows for drafts, some of them are breaking and don't go up and down so well anymore. I use the same towel until it stinks then I get a new one. It's only a few days though. My hair is long and thick, by the time I wrap my hair the towel is seriously soaked and it takes a long time for it to dry out. I think that's why they get stinky is because they're not drying out quickly. I don't mind wearing my jeans over to work outside but I'm really only working outside 1-2 big days per week and I'm not going to let them sit dirty so I wash. I do wear my jacket over and over even though it's dirty. I think I don't want to empty all the necessities from my pockets. It's my work/chore jacket and I don't really get dirty feeding the animals.

I'm so sorry sapphire. You sound so sad having to let him go.

posted by medawinks,
"Danz, I knew you were solidly good folk the first time I met you! I just didnt know how amazingly accomplished you were at overcoming life's mountains and valleys.... Isn't it amazing how life's toughest times can be the times we end up treasuring the small things for? Your kids are so lucky to have such a determined and committed, loving mother! As are all the kids I read about here "
I just wanted to say AMEN to that.

Laundry breeding!!!! That's a good one, it breeds faster than chickens. I've made goat milk soap using the goats milk in place of the water in the standard recipe. Homemade soaps are easier on your skin just because it retains the natural glycerin where as in commercial soaps it is removed because they can sell it for other purposes. I don't know how they do that, but I read that in a soap making book. Goat's milk soap still contains other harsh things like lye but it's not harsh anymore after it's something-ized (can't think of big word, duh) and then cured. I can even use regular lye soap on my face without ill effects.

Maidenwolf, you use the coconut oil in the tub or you put the blend in the tub? I will look up the store for sure.

Danz, I'm on my second set of front loaders. The first set lasted 10 years, it was Frigidaire. The new set is LG, it's been over a year and have had no problems at all. That may not sound so impressive until you consider how much laundry I'm doing. I agree with what you are saying about bending over, when I start washing every blanket in the house at the end of winter or kids get sick and I am on the laundry constantly my knees start hurting from squatting down over and over. We are getting ready to move my washer and dryer to my bathroom for convenience reasons but in the process we are putting it up on a huge step and I won't have to bend down anymore. Kinda good and kinda bad, I'm afraid I'll lose the ability to squat down like that if I don't have to. I appreciate being able to wash more, but it seems that I can wash loads bigger than what the dryer can handle in the same time frame as it takes to wash the next load. I tend to take out at least a few bigger pieces even then and take them to the clothes line to keep the process moving faster. That's so sweet about your son wanting your robe, it made me tear up. You're funny about shaving, who sees our legs anyway? Oh, I went out to catch chickens for someone in my shorts and boots, that had to be a sight to see.

HEchicken, what is paleo?

maidenwolf, have you harvested chicory? You will LOVE etsy maidenwolf, it's all handmade/homemade, craft, vintage. I love it because everything handmade on there was made with care and just beautiful things that are special and unique. How old is Beast? He has a baby face.

medawinks, my dd puts egg in her hair. Bath fizzies are easy to make for gifts.

Sharol, I'm done with Maytag as of the last few years and I've been done with GE. I won't so much as buy a GE lightbulb and I cringe when someone gets a test done at the hospital and they use GE equipment. GE turns my stomach, can you tell?

OMGosh Kansas Prairie, I didn't check to see how fast the wind is but it's horrendous. I can hear stuff hitting the house, the big swing blew over already the other swings have are now all wrapped around and tangled.

I haven't even set foot outside yet today, I have been cooking all day though. I'm looking for another cracker recipe, something sweetish with honey. It's supposed to get cold tonigh. We're having chicken and noodles, homemade noodles. There must be a fine line in when to process the chickens, the ones we did last month were tender these last two have been slightly tough.

Hope you have a beautiful evening Tweety.

Hi Marty. It seems we've had all kinds of fun topics going on here lately.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Mommahen- I blend the oil which is hard not like a runny oil, more like shortening, I blend it with a few drops lavender or whichever oil I want at the time and scoop out a dime sized amount with my finger, it begins to melt at body temp and I rub it in my skin and hair. Love it lots. It helps seal your hair and protect from breakage and frizz. Becareful not to go over board on your hair though alittle goes a very long way. I use the liquid shea butter the same.
I harvest lots of different herbs mullein, chicory, dandelion leaf and root. In early spring when dandelions first start popping up we go and collect as many flowers as we can and I soak them in salt water and seperate the stem from teh flower head and batter them and fry them. Drain them on paper towel and sprinkle with sea salt..

 

[chicken danz]

I am exhausted. What a busy day and the wind just beat me to death. I moved some more birds today. I started over and made an entirely new gate for my enclosure for the chickens that stay in the old garage. It fits in the opening rather than on top of it like the other one did. I made it out of heavier pressure treated wood so I wouldn't have to worry about weather messing it up.
I'm going to just use the first gate I made when I get another pen divided that isn't done yet.
My brother is headed back to Texas and has to be moved to and working in North Carolina by the 19th. I know that is going to break my Dad's heart. I have some frequent flyer miles I'm going to offer to my Dad once they get settled so he can go visit. He hates flying but that is the only way he could make the trip.
Mommahen I may just have to take you up on your offer if I can get some funds together for some building materials. I have so many projects it's hard to decide what I need to get done. Know what I mean?
Those birds Maidenwolf has are both pretty young. Maybe 2 to 3 months old.
Mammahen, the rooster who got his spur caught had spurs so long that they curled around into more than a half circle. I assume he must have jumped and caught it. What they sit on is an old heavy wire crate thing I've had for years. They chose it as a roost and they seem to love it.
For the record I didn't consider myself a great Mom, but I think my kids were great kids. I always told them that they kept me out of jail. Because of them I stayed responsible and was on the right side of the law. Heaven knows what stupid things I would have done with my life if I didn't have my kids to keep me grounded. I know several times I would have made really wrong choices if I hadn't had them to care for.
Any more info on the energy efficient washers will be helpful. I keep reading about bad odors. Have you experienced that? I am sure my old washer will quit at the worst time and when I can't come up with the money to buy what I want.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Checoukan, for some reason it didn't multi your post and looks like I lost some others. Anyway, CUTE legbars! Those are looking like a lot of fun! I think RevolutionMama is doing those, too. Do you think you are going to do the Shawnee show? I think I'm going to give it up after the Hutch show next week. I still don't have my insurance money and so --NO vehicle!! I'm going to be stuck driving my huge one-ton dually truck down there. Uuugh. I would take my other truck (it's diesel) but it's only a two door and won't fit the cages. This is going to kill me on gas this coming weekend. Not to mention, this truck was my truck in highschool! It's a 1977 dualy-- you know, the BIG ones and it's not exactly pretty and is about 8-10 mpg. LOL I call her "Big Red".

Chinese food is my absolute favorite and I had NO IDEA that fried rice was this easy to make!!

Rice is something that my tummy has been able to handle, and I've been eating a couple tablespoons of scrambled egg as well, so I could easily make some of this and get 1/4 cup of something that would taste much better than the plain white rice! Thank you!

Yeah, I throw in peas and carrots, too. We love it. You can make cajun rices too, or throw in corn and Rotel and make a tex mex rice. We eat rice a lot.

Hawkeye, when I was a kid my mom locked us out during the day and I percieved it as mean when I was a kid.

The door they like to use is the one that goes out to the garage. Ironically the other doors I don't lock, and they don't even realize it. But the reason I started doing it in the summer is that they would all leave the door OPEN. The neighbor kids all come over here and they just walk in! No one knocks anymore. Then THEY (neighbor kids) leave the darned door open. So the house was hot all summer long and we had a million flies in here and no amount of yelling at my own kids or the neighbor kids made any difference. I finally cracked and had it and told them if they were going out, I was going to lock the door behind them, so they were aware of it. I was tired of people trooping in and out and no one shutting the door and heating the house up when our AC is running day and night to keep up with it. I didn't keep it locked very long-- just like 10-15 mins to stop the instant turn around and coming back in as soon as they went out. We have a huge concrete back patio that all the neighbor kids want to come over and play on. I have a water misting system in the pergola I turn on when it's really hot and that also shades this patio to keep them cool and in the shade and of course, if they wanted to come in another door, they could. It wasn't like they were locked out there for hours or had no other options. And if they wanted back in that door, they had to knock. I mostly have the neighbor kids re-trained to KNOCK before coming in because I kept locking it. I was just SICK of it. (the front door is never locked when we're home) We don't allow shoes in the house, we don't allow eating or drinking anywhere in the house EXCEPT the dining room table and all the running, screaming and tearing thru the house when the door was open was going to send me over the bend. The neighbor's parents must have a general lack of house rules or respect for their homes... but not me.

I just saw a show where a guy took the bar soap slivers and put them in the end of a pair of old panty hose and used that to wash with. I never use bar soap because I am allergic to most of it. I have to be very careful about using much of anything with fragrances. But it seemed like a good idea.

My grandmother would save slivers of soap and press them together. I don't know how she did it-- but she'd make a new bar of soap with them! I wonder if she used heat?? I wash my hair every other day. I take a shower either once a day or every other day, depending on if I have somewhere to go and how dirty I think I got. If I'm going somewhere, I definitely take a shower, I'm with you on the no-odor thing.

Hawkeye, I will hope the chiropractor will be your solution! 55mph! I don't know why I hadn't registered that before, but no doubt things got badly out of line..... Ouch!!! A true miracle you are here to tell the tale!

Laundry here is always breeding! I can't ever get ahead:-(
I won't be able to watch them as closely the next few weeks, and will be relying on my oldest and a good friend for our chicken maintenance and roo crowing alert, since my littlest one has surgery on Wednesday to take bone cultures for a later graft and to have teeth pulled to prepare for the grafting in her jaw and cheekbones. Won't be fun, but will be worth it!!
Good luck today with all of the winterizing everywhere! I will hope it will all be painless!
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Yeah, it was a pretty "incredible" impact I had. Never done anything like that before. I have also always assumed if you get into a wreck going highway speeds, you're pretty much dead. I'm glad to prove that wrong, but have to give a LOT of credit to my 4 yr old Dodge Grand Caravan--- I bought it in the first place because of the crash ratings on it. I'm buying another one!
I LOVE that phrase "laundry is always breeding"! Wow... and that is soooo true!!! Going to use that! LOL Poor little Sera! I feel bad she is going to have another surgery(s), but I sure hope this is going to improve her quality of life. I had a friend that was just finishing up surgeries in grade school because of a cleft palate and had to have her jaw re-done or something. It was terrible, but the end results were amazing!!

x2. I figure if I am clean and using the towel just to dry off the (clean) water from the shower, then why would the towel need to be washed after? As long as it has a place to thoroughly dry, I will use the same towel for awhile. And yep, the same jeans go on day after day unless I kneel in chicken poop or get splashed in mud or spill something on them. Clothes (any fabric really) last a lot longer if they aren't washed too often.

I did try this a couple of years ago. The "recipe" I got from another forum was to use a couple of tablespoons of baking soda and massage that into the scalp, and then rinse with 1/4-1/2 cup of vinegar. At first I loved it - it sizzled up nicely and "felt" like it was doing good things for my hair. And the first few times, my hair felt really soft and clean afterward. But with extended use, I found I had some sort of build-up in my hair and it started to look dull and listless. So I went back to using a commercial shampoo. It might be something that is good to do some of the time, as long as you use a real shampoo intermittently to avoid the build-up.

Isn't coconut oil pretty expensive? My SIL uses it in cooking a lot since her family went paleo, but when I priced it once at the grocery store, I just couldn't put any in my basket because it was so high.

I also re-use my towel for an entire week. Why clean it when it's not dirty? I will try to push it a bit longer if I can. I pay attention to if it gets dropped on the floor, or whatever. Usually I can go a week and maybe a couple more days over. I wear my jeans quite a while too-- unless for the reasons you mentioned, they get dirty. Saves on washing!

I have never been on etsy I will have to look at it. I am not familiar with what they do or sell really. But it is a good thing to look at for sure.

I got my first easter egger egg yesterday.


Here is Beast the black cochin I got from chicken danz, nevermind the wd-40!

This is Beauty the cochinx

LOVE this bird!!! This bird reminds me of a few birds my dad used to have that looked awfully similar. But his had tails...

Danz, that would be an amazing idea to make a booklet. That's crazy about your rooster hanging by his spurs, poor boy. How on earth did he manage to do that?
I haven't even set foot outside yet today, I have been cooking all day though. I'm looking for another cracker recipe, something sweetish with honey. It's supposed to get cold tonigh. We're having chicken and noodles, homemade noodles. There must be a fine line in when to process the chickens, the ones we did last month were tender these last two have been slightly tough.

Hope you have a beautiful evening Tweety.

Hi Marty. It seems we've had all kinds of fun topics going on here lately.

Danz, great idea on the booklet!! You know what the crazy thing is? We had a rooster at our summer county fair get hung up by his spurs upside down in his show cage!!! His spurs were ridiculous!!! They were long and curling. The judge told the people to remove them, they were going to harm the bird by hanging him up at home or breaking a leg, etc.. I hope they did remove them, they were like 8 inchs long more MORE! All curled up. When he hung himself, we were frantic to get him down, he was fighting and throwing a big fit.

I harvest lots of different herbs mullein, chicory, dandelion leaf and root. In early spring when dandelions first start popping up we go and collect as many flowers as we can and I soak them in salt water and seperate the stem from teh flower head and batter them and fry them. Drain them on paper towel and sprinkle with sea salt..

I've heard of people eating dandelions, but never knew of anyone who actually did it! WOW! Where did you learn to cook them up from? Are they really good, or just something you tolerate?

 

[Hawkeye95]

I am exhausted. What a busy day and the wind just beat me to death. I moved some more birds today. I started over and made an entirely new gate for my enclosure for the chickens that stay in the old garage.

Oh my, I need to re-do a door, but have been putting it off. Sounds like you were working hard. Sheesh! The wind today was insane!!


Today, my Dh went on a run out on the highway. But when he got home, his cell phone was not on him. So we went back to look for it and long story short, I found it on the side of the highway and it had been run over! We got it home and he got it to turn on, but the screen is all cracked in a million places and the battery is bent up-- it's a mess. It won't really turn on, it just lights up making you think it might want to work. The bad thing is.... this isn't actually our phone! It's my DH's Boeing issued mobile phone. Sigh. Of course, they won't hassle him, they'll just issue him a new one, but it just stinks that it happened.


Then, I was so excited this morning, my little black pullet laid her first little pullet egg!! It's so tiny and adorable!! I put it next to a "regular" Silkie egg from one of my older girls for comparison.

Anyway, looks like i can start breeding Blacks when I'm ready to hatch again!