Posted on 05/04/2015 7:42:55 AM PDT by GSWarrior
Better reaction than I expected! :)
Thank you, my friend. Sorry for the language, but that woman
has been sticking her fat nose in everyone else’s business for
far too long. She’s a senile old bat who needs to be retired.
These witless micro-managers will be the death of our freedom
and our country. They should all hang from the highest tree.
Only In America.
That's just .... just .... wonderful(*)!! Made me smile the rest of the day!
(*)except that it involves our tax dollars.
Yes, we’ll be much, much safer! lol
but of course because that is our BIGGEST threat in the world today
Thanks for the ping!
If I left any ground beef or leftovers on the counter, the dogs would make sure they were safely disposed of in the blink of your eye.
Hell; just make your own, it’s not that hard to do.
Couple of empty 5 gallon plastic buckets, a drill bit, some hardwood ash and water.
Make your own lye at home, Store bought is Sodium Hydroxide, and what you make at home is Potassium Hydroxide.
Really not much of a difference for soap making purposes.
Couple of plastic buckets, some hardwood ash, and some water.
Drill small holes in bucket #1 lots of small holes, some folks use straw to keep the ash from going through the holes, I prefer cheese cloth or a fine filter paper.
Put perforated bucket with filter and hardwood ash over bucket #2 and pour water over ash, use enough water so it percolates through the ash and drips into bucket #2.
What you have now is a dilute solution of lye water, pour the dilute solution through the ashes about 3 or 4 times to increase the strength of the solution.
I test the strength with a pH meter; but my Mother just used a raw egg, if the egg sinks it’s to weak, if the egg floats high it’s to strong, if the egg floats at the surface it’s just right.
I prefer the pH meter for better control.
If you want it really strong just keep pouring the solution through the ash or toss the wet ash, put in a new filter and fresh ash and keep pouring until it’s like syrup.
Use plastic containers to make it and to store it, the stuff will eat metal worse than salt water.
DON’T USE ANY GALVANIZED METAL.
Mom told me to use rain water because it was the best for making lye (probably because of very little mineral content), I just use my well water (pretty soft any way), but I guess you could use distilled water in place of rain water.
WHO YOU GONNA HANG?
I still remember my aunt making soap clear up into the 1960s. She said she could not stand to see the cooking lard go to waste. she was from the high plains dust bowl era where life was hard and nothing went to waste.
It’s such a long list.
My husband bought me a large case full of bottles of lye several
years ago. I think we have all that we will ever need.
We both like “Our Soap” the best, made with my usual recipe and
scented with Tea Tree and Lavender oils.
Speaking of which, I really should make a couple of batches soon.
And anyone who thinks I’m a meth head need only take one look
at me. I’m obese, have all my teeth, am relatively unwrinkled, and
undergoing chemotherapy.
I have never been arrested in my entire life. No mug shots.
My police record consists of speeding tickets, about three or four.
I think... Let’s see... California, California, California, Montana.
Yeah. That’s it. Three tickets on my motorcycle, and one in a car.
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