This week my daughter and I are spending the week with my parents. My husband, brother and three others have traveled to Atlanta for the International Woodworking Fair held there every two years. Since the only car I can drive will be at the airport the rest of the week there was no [...]
Hard Water Hair Experiment #2
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 I added a slight variation to my experiment in treating hard water hair. Sunday I found an Olive Oil/Aloe shampoo called Organic Root Stimulator Olive Oil Creamy Aloe Shampoo; now that’s a mouthful. Right on the front of the label is says that it removes [...]
Hair Experiment #1
Sunday I tried one of the suggestions for making “hard water” hair behave. I mixed 1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar with 1 cup (8 oz) of distilled water. Since I had an old spray bottle handy I used this to apply the mix to my scalp. Though I did pour some over my [...]
The Good
Last week I had to stay with my mom for a few days since she needed some help getting to some important appointments. She is tentative about driving lately because of weakness she experiences because of her condition. I was only too happy to lend a helping hand. While I was there I noticed [...]
Just added the WordPress CommentLuv widget to this blog. I’ve had the benefit of commenting on a good number of blogs that offer this service so I thought it’d be nice to reciprocate. So please, drop by, comment and maybe click through on one of my ads just for fun. Thanks for [...]
“The Monkey Man” is my new knickname for USA’s men’s gymnastics team member, Justin Spring. If you’ve ever watched him do the highbar routine you know exactly what I’m talking about. I’ve seen two of his performances in competition in Beijing and both were spectacular. The one I saw last night was [...]
The Karen are the largest minority group in Burma, now known as Myanmar. For many years they have fought for autonomy from the Burmese government without much success. A ray of hope was handed them during British rule. But as in many cases the Brits used them, abused them, and then left [...]
One vein of the occult that has popped frequently into my view as of late is prophecies by man, mainly Nostradamus. This one bothers me because the world has free access to this book called the Holy Bible that contains prophecies that have been fulfilled and are still awaiting fulfillment, yet people ignore it. But, [...]
Blogging is a wonderful pasttime. It gives us a chance to write about things we find interesting and also to find out what other people think about our soapboxes and bad days. It is so much fun to enter contests and sign up for free offers on the blogs of all your blogging [...]
We live not a mile from some new highway construction. There are no trees or even houses to block out view of the goings on. This isn’t really a nuisance during the day, but they’ve been working all night, too. My husband and I sleep in a room at the back of the house and [...]
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