Wednesday, 05 November 2008

• Politics

    I will respond to someone initiating a conversation about politics, but I am from the old school and would rather not.  One reason being that I don't believe 99% of what is put out through emails, the media, or people.  So I can't waste my time and thoughts repeating it or discussing.  I was very confident in the way I voted this year and now I am ready to move on.  Interesting enough, only registered voters are summoned for Jury duty and I received a summons today in the mail.  The last time I was summoned was when I was 9 months pregnant with my daughter.  Had to decline the summons that time.  And that will be ALL I will say about it. 

  Today we spent a good part of the morning talking with the kids about the voting process, in general.  We discussed electoral votes and how many our state has and past voting ballots and processes.  We read a book on our right to vote and people that we know that are not able to vote for the various reasons.  We also discussed who (American Indians, Womens,  African American, and people who did not own land (the poor)) was not able to vote and how wrong it was. 

  We also had a day of laundry soap making.  We do this about every 3-4 months.  It ends up being .17 a gallon to make.  My neice and nephew joined us and we were able to make more than 16 gallons today.  The house smelled very frangrant, and my pots ended up really clean and shiney from using the borax.  I will share the recipe.

  Fels Naptha Laundry Soap

   

  1/3 bar     Fels Naptha grated
  1/2 cup    washing soda
  1/2 cup     borax powder
  Put the grated Fels Naptha in a large pan with 3 pints of water - heat - stir to dissolve. When dissolved stir in the 1/2 cup of washing soda - then the 1/2 cup of Borax [remember 20 mule team borax - upper shelf on laundry isle in grocery stores] This will all thicken and look like honey - remove from heat. In a two gallon bucket put 1 quart of hot water. Next and your honey looking soap. stir! Then fill the bucket with cold water. Stir till well blended.  Pour into old laundry soap containers.  It will gel up in about 24 hours, so don't wait too long to pour into your containers or you will have to scoop it out of the bucket : )  Use 1/2 cup for each load.

  Note:  For those with sensitive skin, a mild soap like Ivory brand can be substituted for the Fels Naptha without losing much of the cleaning ability----really dirty laundry would benefit from a little extra Borax and Washing soda added to that load

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  We were sopposed to go to the Wildlife Rescue Center today, but the kids decided they didn't want to pitch in after lunch time (voluntarily).  I guess this child training is a continual process, because we immediately went into training time with my 10,11, & 15 year old.  Maybe we'll try it again another day. 

  We have hair cuts at 2:30 and art at 3:30 so it's gonna be a busy day.  The boys are doing self portraits in Art.  They are hoping to get them finished in the next week or so.  I'll be sure to post photos.

  B10n had a chance to cut open a pumpkin and we roasted the seeds.  Butter an a little garlic.  Yummy!

  

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