The mullein leaves I ordered have arrived. I mixed up a tea with dried spearmint leaves and a bit of honey. I downed a cup immediately after it arrived yesterday. Not too bad either.
Once I have a few more days of the tea, I'll let you know if it worked. Also, the tea was shipped in a clear plastic zip bag, so now I am on the hunt for tins or amber glass containers to store it in.
I plan to make a donation to our Goodwill today, so I may stop in and see what I can find today. As for our "donation" it will be from a semi-good cleaning of the garage. I won't be able to to a complete cleaning until Daughter has finished her AIT training and settled her belongings into an apartment.
There are many garage sales in a small nearby town today as well (to seek out inexpensive tea storage), but we do have a lot of work to complete this weekend. I can't be gallivanting around today. I'm about to blow a whistle and give the kids a little wake up call (he he!) Hubby is still in bed too. Sheesh. What is he thinking?
Which makes me wonder why I should even be thinking of time to do any handicraft work.....
Back in 2012, I embroidered several hankies, and sewed large recycled beads on the corners. I embroidered a camper coffee pot, camper, and flowers on them. The one with the camper on it is in our pop up camper. I'm considering making a few more of these for when we are entertaining outside....adding it to the appropriate list.
Tomatoes are coming in now. I brought in about 4 lbs. last night. I need 6 to make taco sauce, 10 to make ketchup, and 45 lbs. to make sauce. Not sure what I need yet for my salsa.
School shopping has started. My email inbox is over-flowing with sales coupons. I already used one to buy my 12th grader two pairs of jeans at JCPenney. They were priced at $42.00 each, but with sales and a coupon, we bought them at $14.99/each. That is cheaper than what they are at Wal-mart.
You should see their supply list? Binders by the boat load. I told them to go check last years leftovers, before they write me up a list. Those things are not cheap at all. And thank goodness we can pass down a graphing calculator. So far it's been used every year by who ever is in their senior year. I think we had to pay about $80-90 for it several years ago.
Well, here I am rattling off about school starting, and I should be blowing my whistle to get this day started. Hubby is installing a new kitchen faucet for me. It's been broken for a year and I finally got a new one (Thank you Mom and Dad!). I told the kids if they break this one, I am taking their iPods and selling them to buy the next faucet. I hope the fear keeps them in line and they'll treat the faucet respectively.
Oh, and I did get my new stove burner. However, because my stove is so old, the replacement does not quite fit to be completely level. I will have Hubby look at it and see if he can work it to fit until next year. I do have a lot of canning to do yet this season.
4 comments:
I enjoyed your rattling, makes it seem like I am there with you enjoying a cup of coffee and just chatting :)
I love the embroidered work, so pretty.
My tomatoes haven't come in yet, not sure what is going on. I WAS given some yesterday and I will be making salsa out of those.
Have a wonderful weekend :)
Our tomatoes were slow coming...and just trickled in a little at a time.
I didn't get any put up...but we have eaten every single one that comes in the house. :)
It hasn't been hot enough for our tomatoes to turn red yet. The roma tomato plants are over loaded with green tomatoes and keep falling over, even with the stakes and cages. I have never prayed so much for a week long heat wave before. Then I will be cursing because all of the tomatoes will turn at once. LOL
Sandra is right! Reading your posts is like talk we would have over a cup of coffee. I love 'em!
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