Pillows & Senior Hair Care

 Good morning friends,

   Hoping you are not included in this latest heat wave. I was hoping our last round was the end but mother nature says no.  My goal this week was to make headway with the tall grass cutting. I did get out two days at first light but the heat and humidity especially has increased and at 5 am being 80 degrees F with very high humidity already--well it is just not a good idea for this senior to be out there.

  Oops that was strange, I did something that erased half my post. 😀 

   This weekend we are to cool down into the 80's which is just in time for the big Shootout here on Lake in the Ozarks. All sizes of boats and race boats race for the best time in the different categories. This event raises allot of money for charities for the immediate area. This has gotten quite large just since we moved here a couple years ago, Our tv service has the Laketv  channel for the lake and will broadcast the race live-I watch to learn about all the boats I see on the lake and no crowds to deal with haha

  Do you have a difficult time finding the perfect pillow? 

       I grew up with feather pillows which I like because I can make a flat spot for my head and neck and I have always loved feather pillows the best. Mom would always send them off to the dry cleaners every few years for cleaning and adding more feathers. I doubt this service is available any more. Are there even dry cleaners any more?  I know not available rural where we have lived.  I have looked into buying me a new feather pillow-the price was quite shocking.

 So I needed to go through our pillows this month-my feather pillows are 50 years old for sure so I tossed those. I would throw them in the dryer on no heat several times a year.  I had picked up a couple different pillows over the years but most didn't work out or hold up well-so those got tossed. I saved two very flat ones, and one I sorta like. I went online as the only shopping near me that would have pillows would be Wal mart.  When I got those from online Wow they said queen size but these are the largest queens I have ever seen so of course the pillow cases I have don't fit.   I was so unhappy as these also do not squish down flatter as shown in the photos-so these are useless for sleeping on. One of them works ok on the couch when I lay down to read though.  I then bought two Serta queens at Wal mart that looked really nice, felt like they would flatten-nope. Also bought pillow covers and cases for these two sets of pillows. I have given up on pillows for now.

  Sharing photos is a challenge here on the little lap top as I can't unload the photos to this computer because the connection is too large for the lap top. I can still unload them to the desk top computer but I then can't see the colors to know what they look like to post, so when I do post them I see what they look like on the lap top-frustrating-just like the pillows haha 😀

  I will be 74 in October and this is the first year I feel like a person aging. The biggest challenge for me this year has been my hair thinning-way too much-and just breaking off. I have always had very thin long hair but never this issue of losing hair.  I went back on multiple vitamins and also picked up gummy vitamins for hair. Don't see any improvement  I looked into different supplements for hair loss but they are really very expensive and reading the reviews most don't work and they cause hair growth on other parts of our bodies not what I would want.  

  This morning I was browsing on Pinterest which I have not done in ages and ran into a recipe for my hair issue. I had some of the essential oils (from my soap making) but not most of the other ingredients so I went shopping online. A little expensive to purchase everything at once but much less expensive than those supplements per month that they are selling. Here is the recipe  

She calls it mermaid hair tonic  Sharing a photo from her site, she even included her label to download

  I am anxious to try it if nothing else it should add moisture to my hair as it is so dry all the time now. The ingredients are witch hazel w/ no alcohol, hemp seed oil or carrot seed oil, distilled water, and essential oils of lavender, rosemary, cedarwood, peppermint

  I have gone through the large cotton bag of the  north ronaldsay wool this week. I wanted to fluff it up and get rid of more of the dried grasses that was in it. This was raw wool when I bought it. I may have mentioned it in my last post, I  messed up by washing this before removing the top layer, if I would have done that it would have saved me allot of time. I did start carding this and spinning on the drop spindle. Finding out I need less wool on the carders to be able to draw it out and spin a finer yarn. This does still have the lanolin in it but not as much as the churro wool. Now that I have that figured out, I may see if I can spin this on my wheel or not-the wheel is fast so will see if I can keep up with it for this project. If not a good project for in front of the tv. The huge bag is a bit daunting, but I am determined to get through these wools that I have in my stash.  I need to get back to weaving soon and fix that threading mistake first-which I need a clear head for as I will have to cut it off the loom to do that and retie it back on-ugh

   The morning is slipping away on me already, I have been wanting to bake us chocolate chip cookies but it is a bit too hot for that this week. I think I will churn us up some ice cream. 

 Happy almost mid week

Update: my husband told me about usb splitters-I plug that into the one usb port on the lap top and that will give me 4 usb ports-perfect-I just need two one for the mouse and one for my camera-less stress with photos