Divesting

So, anyway, now that the hundred days is over, I can take a breath and actually breathe.

I have to get going on the sculpture that is due in a month, and I think that will be started on Thursday. There is going to be noise and mess and I will be in trouble, but will worry my fuzzy, little head about that later.

I have been going through books and a whole bunch of health-related tomes are on their way out. One book that I am keeping is a 1975 printing of The Formula Manual. It is a crazy book about using chemicals and other stuff to make your own stuff. Some of it sounds easy to make and useful, to boot. Other 'recipes' sound just crazy.

A teeny sampling from the index is...

General Home
Disinfectant for shoes
Drain cleaner
Luminarias
Filter cleaning compound
Cement waterproofing
Lubricating stick (...huh?)

Kitchen
Air purifier, wick type
Baking powder
Egg preservative
Mustard
Preserving olives (uses lye, for chrissakes)
Celery vinegar

Home workshop
Laboratory hand lotion
Lighter fluid
Rust remover
Sculpture modeling wax

And, chapters on making your own pet care treatments, pest control, personal care products, cleaning and laundry supplies, and more. The stuff in there is far, far out.

Poultry Laying Mash
Ground corn
Ground barley
Ground wheat
Ground oats
Meat scraps
Dried milk solids
Alfalfa meal
Bone meal
Salt

Chocolate biscuit coating
Margarine
Cocoa powder
Dry skim milk
Powdered sugar
Salt
Vanilla extract

Antichap stick for lips
Beeswax
Castor oil
Sesame oil
Anhydrous lanolin

It is so interesting that I am going to make every effort to put it back on the shelf until I have more time to spend doing nothing but reading the darn thing.

I swear, I never know what I am going to find in a bookcase around here.