The Things I Said I'd Never Do...

I'm a sucker for eating words. I find myself doing a lot of things I once said I would never do, things like planting a garden with peas for harvesting after spending hours of weeding and picking the nasty little pods. I planted my little garden full the other day. Just because its there and I can.

After I planted the garden last week, I did a couple other things I said I would never do... One was this...

HOMEMADE LAUNDRY SOAP... If you are looking for raves and reasons of why you should do this, you came to the wrong place. I started doing this because I like the calm of all white in a jar and I like to know what's in my stuff. It's simple, inexpensive, and I get to mix things up a bit with using different essential oils each time, depending on what I have on hand. It takes me about fifteen minutes to grate the bar, dump the ingredients in and stir...

 Viola! It's so pretty and actually does a good job of cleaning, every bit as good as Tide. Now, I'm gonna let you down easy about my thrifty and healthy ways and just let you know very honestly that I LOVE... Downy for fabric softener. I know that doesn't really fit this path of homemade laundry soap, but I'll just say, it's how I stay balanced...

 And this... I loved the idea of KOMBUCHA for health purposes, but the look of that scoby sitting around kinda gave me the willies. Until...I tasted it and actually enjoyed it. I brewed this first batch and poured my first cup this morning...

 So, it's not divine, divine, divine, but it's interesting, different than water, and is full of probiotics. I'm just saying... Why not at least try it?

 Oh, it's kinda fizzy too. Nice in a weird way. But, it isn't very pretty with that scoby on top. Scoby? Very gross! Just thought I'd warn you if you wanted to try it for yourself.  And I'll try to give you a link for a lady that makes it and wrote an article about it...Hopeful Things. Go to her blog and enter Kombucha in the blog search box.

Now, if you can get me to try out a smart phone and face book...