One more thing...

I should have read my last post before I published it....I should make sure you understand that the 1/3 bar of soap is grated into the water. I scored my bar so as I was grating I knew when to stop.

Trying Something New

I found this recipe for making your own laundry detergent using the products in the pic. So today James and I made some. It is super cheap per load. I haven't done any laundry yet, but I will keep you posted on how I think it cleans. From all the posts on the blog I got it off of, everyone raves about its cleaning. One lady has pet rats and used this soap to wash the rat's bedding. She said there was no smell left. So this makes me hopeful that it is what it is....you know what I mean?
If you're curious, I dissolved 1/3 of the bar soap in a quart of hot water. Brought it to a nice simmer on the stove and stirred until dissolved. We then added 1/2 cup of the Washing Soda and Borax to the soap water and stirred until too dissolved. Took it off the heat. In my mop bucket (3 gal) I put one quart of hot tap water. Then poured the soap mixture in and filled it with cold water up to the 2 gallon line. I let it set for about 30 miinutes and stirred it occasionally. It will begin to gel. We then poured it into two empty old juice gallon bottles. I think we ended up with about 1 2/3 gallons.
Each time I use this soap I will have to give the bottle a bit of a shake to mix it up again. Anyway, never hurts to try to cut back on some expenses!!

Brooke Leigh

Baby Brooke Leigh, 6 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair. Super long legs, big feet and long fingers - A Darrington for sure with Alissa's nose. She is super good at frowning. Here she is showing the jaundice so she is on the Billipad.

Our wild weather

This picture James took on Tuesday of the wild weather we had going on! The wind was clocked at 60mph in Pocatello and took down trees....we just rattled really hard. BTW- this is the Iona hill.

James' Science Project

James' Science project....changing the color of fire. We used household chemicals in the fire to see what we could come up with....salt, borax, alum, ice melt, pool cholrine tablets. It was pretty interesting the colors that came out. I won't post all the different colors but here are two....if I remember right the pool tablet is the one on the right - blue fire!! and the red - ah heck, I can't remember - but he did get a ribbon!! One of the coolest was the ice melt, well sort of, it snapped and crackled and turned awesome white - yes white fire...but with all the popping and snapping, I got hit in the lip and a natural reaction was to lick my lip...so I ended up with a small blister on both!! Ouch, yes.

Michael's Senior Project

Michael built this muzzleloader from a kit he bought. It turned out really nice!!

Xander Jacob