PUT ON YOUR GLASSES!!!!
Bummer, I just ruined the last of my rose essential oil (very pricey stuff)! I just had about 100 drops left so I decided to dilute it in fractionated coconut oil to make it last longer. So, I went to the bottles of oil, I realized when I started surveying the labels I didn't have my glasses on...but, oh well, if I hold the bottle way off I can sort of figure out what it says. So, I found the one that said "fractionated coconut oil." I took it to the counter and started to drip it into the rose oil bottle when I noted an unmistakable waft of insect repellent!!!
(interruption for a call from my very pregnant daughter-in-law...I'll be a grandma before long!)
Anyway, I took another waft and recognized (with horror!) the oil I was dripping into the rose oil-it was lemon eucalyptus! EEEK! Now, I like lemon eucalyptus...when I am blending an insect repellent or pouring a health lodge but NOT with a very expensive rose oil!!!! It smells like insect repellent and is impossible to cover in a blend!!!!!
I ruined the last of my lovely rose oil because I didn't put on my glasses! I am going now to get a chain to wear the stupid things around my neck-and as soon as I get back to Texas I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket...if I win I'm getting the surgery to fix old eyes!
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OH NO! Sorry you ruined your rose oil, Cyndi, but hang on to that rosy-lemony-eucalyptus blend! With as much rain as we've been getting down here in Texas, you're going to need some super-strength insect repellant. They're vicious right now!
Oh, no....and with that tank behind the house which has no fish in it they will probably pick up a small animal and haul it off!! I didn't realize that Alaska is know for it's big mosquitoes...they make a very big deal out of them. I will admit that they are so huge they make Texas mosquitoes look like tiny babies but they are not near as blood thirsty. Today I was out among them, there were lots and they were huge and I don't have a bite one tonight-you know what I would look like if I had been home!
Well, Rusty and I spent the day working in the yard yesterday and I am just COVERED with bites. we planted some lantana and mexican heather. I also potted an Egyptian starflower and some plumbago.
Sounds beautiful!!!! When I get back I will make you tincture of yarrow...it's great! If you go to Trent stop at Mineral Wells and visit my friend Joanne's herb farm. She has great plants for your yard and she usually has some of the tincture made up. I made some for BJ and Mindy and it kept them bug free in the rain forest so I guess that's a pretty good recommendation.
Hurry home! We all need mosquito repellant ASAP!
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