This evening I found my very first tick on my person. Yuck! Luckily I did not freak out when I felt a strange little lump on the top of my head. Instead I called for my fearless husband who lovingly removed the tick from my head, with only the slightest bit of scalp and hair also. He said it was easy to remove ticks from yourself, just practice on dogs and cats. Oh boy, can’t wait!
Yeah! Today I thinned the carrots and we actually have things growing in the ground that look like carrots. They even taste like carrots! We sampled two of the varieties, Danvers and Little Finger. The Danvers was sweeter and (for now anyway) much tastier. I’m itching to try the Red Core, but am too tired to continue weeding. It will have to wait until tomorrow.
My most recent attempts at being “earthy-crunchy”, or whatever you want to call it, are composting with worms (vermaculture) and making sourdough bread starter from natural yeast. The bread looked really good, but was too dense and sour for our taste. I’ll try again in a month or so. The worm adventure is brand new. The worms came in the mail yesterday and I put them in their bin last night. This morning I buried the first batch of food (our vegetable garbage from the last two weeks). They seem happy in their new home, none have tried to escape since I feed them. Wish me luck!
A friend of mine has decided to go without shampoo. It got me thinking of a time a few years ago when I tried to go without eating hfcs (high fructose corn syrup). It was almost impossible, since hfcs is in many things including some really surprising things. Right now the only one I can think of is Special K. That one was surprising given its advertising angle. We eat a lot of “real food” in our house. You know, made from scratch with ingredients not open package, heat, and serve. Even so, it was impossible to go completely cold corn syrup. Maybe I should try again anyway.