HOMEMADE LAUNDRY SOAP

Ingredients:

Tap water 1/4 cup Castile bar soap, grated (Zote or fels napa soap will make it low suds).

1/4 cup borax

1/4 cup washing soda (Sodium Carbonate), if you can find it at the local grocer try a pool supply. Optional: Essential oil 1/2 ounce

Supplies: -1 gallon milk or water container with a screw top -

Measuring cup

Funnel

Stirring spoon

Stove pot (6 cups or larger)

Using a funnel, put 4 cups hot tap water into milk container. Set aside.Measure 4 cups water into pan. Add grated soap; heat and stir until soap is dissolved. Remove from heat and add borax and washing soda, stirring well. Using funnel, transfer with measureing cup into container. Tighten screw top onto container and shake.Add 8 more cups of water to container. Tighten top and give another shake. Remove top and allow to cool. When cool, it will resembles egg drop soup. To use: Give a shake before pouring. Add 1/3 to 1/2 cup liquid soap to machine as washer water fills. Recipe yields 32 loads.

Sleeping Lavender

This serene picture was at taken at 7 in the morning when the temperature was a minus 15 degrees. NO, I did stand outside, it was through my kitchen window. You see I am like the groundhogs, I enjoy hibernating for the winter. I love having my children nine years apart, but on the day like today, I wish my 13 year old was a little older so I could bask in the florida sun and not wait for the school bus.

But it was a beautiful morning, can you see how the sun plays with the shadows of the lavender hills in the field.
Enjoy!