Calendula - Son may have Tourette's

[savingdogs]

Glenolam is the queen of goat milk soap, you might ask her about it, but I thought the goat milk changes color because it heated up too fast, add it slower and put the bowl in a sinkful of ice water. I got my soap with the same additives to be a light tan color this last time, maybe you'd call the shade taupe? But I know Glenolam adds strictly goats milk as her liquid and her soaps are lovely.

 

[gettinaclue]

Oh yea of brave soap making!!!

One of these days...I'm gonna try it with milk and honey.

 

[calendula]

Glenolam is the queen of goat milk soap, you might ask her about it, but I thought the goat milk changes color because it heated up too fast, add it slower and put the bowl in a sinkful of ice water.

It could be that I added the lye to quickly. Next time, I am going to try adding the crystals just a bit at a time and see what happens. I'm hoping the orange color fades a bit after the insulation time and curing.

One of these days...I'm gonna try it with milk and honey.

Do it! Even if you aren't brave enough to try the milk just yet, I would recommend the honey and oats added at trace. That is my favorite soap that I've made so far.

 

[savingdogs]

We love our last batch of goat milk, honey and oatmeal! I hope I can duplicate it.

 

[Marianne]

Smushed tomato plants? What happened?

 

[calendula]

Smushed tomato plants? What happened?

We had a storm roll through last night, and the wind knocked down one of our big trellises onto our tomato plants. We thought we had the trellises in the ground deep enough, but apparantly not. :/ It was only two plants that got broken though, so I can be grateful that they didn't all get crushed!

 

[Marianne]

Oh bummer.

But glad it wasn't worse!

 

[savingdogs]

We have been having attack of the killer slugs....

 

[calendula]

We had a bad slug problem last year, and nothing we tried seemed to work. We tried DE, beer traps, hand picking them in the morning, and collecting them on melon rinds left out overnight. They just kept coming, though. Luckily, they didn't hurt our food crops too badly, but they completely decimated my hostas. But the chickens loved all the slugs we were feeding them.

 

[savingdogs]

we have banana slugs here, would choke a chicken....they choke the ducks!