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Bull Pen, Ballpark, Southpaw... I'm learning lots of baseball slang! Eephus pitch: a super slow ball. Eephus sounds cool, but I wonder if anyone would know what it means.

My DH used to be a die-hard Cubs fan, but we're both Nationals fans now that we live close to DC. Go Nats!! :cool:

I will recycle not quite aesthetically perfect soap as soap balls or if the color is really unfortunate (I've had more than my share of spam colored rose soap for some reason) as felted soap. Or slice them up small for inclusion in sample bundles. I'm always sorry when a favorite soap gets...

I made a shaving soap with my baseball soap scent blend (earlier this year I made felted round soaps and embroidered them with baseball stitching): it's supposed to be reminiscent of the smells I associate with baseball like fresh dirt, grass, leather, wood. But I need a name for it. Baseball...

Half an hour per bar seems like a very long time to me. Maybe 15-20 minutes? But I do several at a time, usually while watching a movie on tv. The first layer of wool I apply is undyed, because it's cheaper and it's not going to be seen. I don't felt it, I just wrap the soap and make sure the...

I don't know anything about the trajectory of sales at Sugarloaf over the past few years. At the time the decision to close was made, maybe people were freaked out and uncertain and just preferred to pull out and not risk it. Some of the shows that I've been doing for years have suffered from...

Sugarloaf didn't close due to "over-reaching regulations", it closed because the pandemic has made it dangerous to all of us to gather indoors in large numbers. There's no sense in organizing a festival if no one comes because they're afraid of getting sick and dying.

She's beautiful. We're on the east coast and have two kitties already (all black fuzzball and a tortie - but not as pretty as yours). Good luck, I hope you find her a tranquil forever home.

I make it with bentonite, calcium carbonate, xylitol, and myrrh, among other ingredients. Neem powder would make it very bitter, wouldn't it? I'll have to try a little bit.

I was shopping on Amazon for face shields yesterday. There are lots of low-cost options that are basically a sheet of plastic attached to a strip of foam to hold it to your forehead in front and an elastic band around the head. There's a more elaborate version that has an extension piece that...

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A victim of the pandemic, Sugarloaf Craft Shows is closing. One of my friends who sold his paintings at their shows told me that they've had to declare bankruptcy. h ttps://sugarloafcrafts.com/ (take out the space in https) I always had my own things going on when they had their shows so I...

There have been lots of recent studies that debunk the hydroxychloroquin/z-pack/zinc treatment. If it really worked, all doctors would be prescribing it and it wouldn't be a controversial treatment (unless you susbcribe to conspiracy theories). I don't understand how an antibiotic is supposed to...

Particularly with fragrances that seize, I will have my oils just warm enough that I'm sure everything is fully melted and mixed. Lye solution at room temperature. When I first started soaping, I was soooo careful to have everything at the recommended temperatures, checking with thermometer...

Bentonite clay isn't exfoliating at all, in my experience. It absorbs lots of water - when I add it to a soap, I hold back some of the water from my lye solution to mix with the clay to make a slurry before adding it to the oils and stickblending well before adding my lye water. Pumice goes in...

I use the Camden Gray extra fine. I wouldn't use it on my face, I I like it in my gardener's soap.

Wish I'd known about that!

I make a tallow/lard/coconut/olive oil soap for a farmers market vendor neighbor to sell, using her animals' tallow. She sells meat and eggs, but the soap provides a value added item and is very popular. My own soap is vegetarian, blends, swirled, layered, etc, so for her I do plain solid colors...

I thought I'd found a good use for all the coconut oil pails. I did make pesto tonight with basil from another pail, it seems happy there. I'm going to build an herb spiral in the space where my raised garden beds used to be and plant a row of thornless blackberries along the fence. I'm trying...

I planted some Green Zebras too, for the first time. Re your bad compost problem: I read about an herbicide that Dow developed that was supposed to be safe for grazing animals but apparently the manure from animals that have eaten hay or feed made with the bad hay, even when composted, deforms...