There's nothing important about this post!

[Russ T Chambers]

Lye soap?

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Close, Russ T. You get lye, and you add fat to it to make soap.

What happened to your scream? I was going to comment on it, but then it was gone!

AnnieLee

[Russ T Chambers]

Close, Russ T. You get lye, and you add fat to it to make soap.

What happened to your scream? I was going to comment on it, but then it was gone!

AnnieLee

My voice broke.    Sometimes happens at my age. 

[Russ T Chambers]

Close, Russ T. You get lye, and you add fat to it to make soap.

What happened to your scream? I was going to comment on it, but then it was gone!

AnnieLee

My Mom and Grandma used lard in place of fat.  Still remember the broom handle they used to stir the clothes in the lye soap tub.  The end was only about half the diameter of the handle, and was kinda fuzzy with wood fibers.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I think of lard as fat when it comes to soap. I use a wooden spoon when I make it, too. But the kind I make came for a kit for yuppies, so instead of fat, it has "oils."

Can't use metals when making lye soap.


AnnieLee

[Russ T Chambers]

As there is nothing important here.  Let's hear the OK Chorale sing something of their own:




AnnieLee  may run, but you can't hide.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

<repeats>

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Just for that, Russ T. I hope you clip your fingernails too short, next time you trim them. *


AnnieLee

*When you cut your nails too short, you can't pick your nose.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

All the gents showing up in their flannel shirts is giving me a flashback...

Once upon a time, when I was young, never married, very tan, very blonde, and swam more than a mile a day, I worked in a maintenance shop doing blue collar work with the boys. One day, I made the mistake of mentioning to a co-worker that I like the smell of Brut on a man.

The next day, all the guys wore Brut to work. I got tired of Brut, quickly.

I don't think I'll ever tire of flannel.



AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

Do you mean an aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide?    But ashes are alkaline not acid, most soils though need alkaline substances not acid.  Few plants except roses and blueberries do well in an acid soil.  Ashes raises the Ph of the soil.    Would I lye to you?

Be sure to save all yer scrap fat, it can be boiled with the potassium hydroxide to make a surfacant that will help remove dirt from yer clothes and skin.  Be sure this substance does not have too high a Ph or it will damage yer skin.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Delmonico teaches the hands about saponification:

[Delmonico]

Gopher Grease and I know a lady that makes wonderful lye soap.  We forgot soap one time and it was 100 degrees in the shade, more out in the sun around a fire.  he traded some bread for a bar of soap.  Then we found out the closed the showers at 11:00 pm at 11:30 pm.  Well you see thay had a horse tank full of water for us in case of fire and well we just stripped down to our undies (non-flannel) and used that soap and washed up. 

[Delmonico]

Yes I noticed the green hair.

[Russ T Chambers]

<repeats>

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Just for that, Russ T. I hope you clip your fingernails too short, next time you trim them. *


AnnieLee

*When you cut your nails too short, you can't pick your nose.

Too late, clipped them this morning before the curse set in.   

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Yes I noticed the green hair.

Hee hee hee. T'weren't me, somebody should be looking for that Frumpy Fairy Godmother over in the Newbrassky thread!

Too late, clipped them this morning before the curse set in.

<in her best Wicked Witch of the West voice>

Oh, I'll get you my pretty, you just wait. And your little dog, too!



AnnieLee

[Russ T Chambers]

Yes I noticed the green hair.

Hee hee hee. T'weren't me, somebody should be looking for that Frumpy Fairy Godmother over in the Newbrassky thread!

Too late, clipped them this morning before the curse set in.

<in her best Wicked Witch of the West voice>

Oh, I'll get you my pretty, you just wait. And your little dog, too!



AnnieLee

No dog, just cute cats. 

[Delmonico]

Tain't much differance 'tween little dogs and cats anyway.   "Cept for Rat Terriors cause they don't realize they is only little dogs.   Fact is my wife's cat is smarter than the little dogs next door. (Just heard one of them squeek )  But that's cause I trained the cat.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

One of the funniest things I ever saw was when the Weimerimer (sp?) sniffed Snowball, the pregnant cat. Her full belly less than 1/2" above the ground, Snowball chased the dog eight feet up a palm tree, where he clung for his life.



AnnieLee

[Russ T Chambers]

Kokopeli (the little 9-10 lb cat) likes to think she can take on Labs and Pitbulls.  Luckily everyone of each she has run into around her are the sweetest lapdog types, or she would be dog food by now.  (Big on moxie, low on sense).   

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

You're some man, Russ T, wanting to be known for your KEWT Kitties!



AnnieLee

[Silver Creek Slim]

Back ta the soil discussion, (sorry) what ya add for dem roses and blueberries ta raise the acidity of the soil? Hint: a part of a plant.

Slim