Teabag Tag

A cow orker suggested green tea compresses help poison ivy. So last night I ran a cool bath while making half a soup pot full of green tea, then dumped into the tub. It was... interesting. A tea bath, with the teabags in it (I hadn't bothered to fish them out of the pot, being so incredibly lazy.). Strange to have intentionally honey-brown bath water... Unfortunately, other than the usual soothing cool bath, it didn't seem to do much.

OTOH, I also got some OTC Benadryl gel stuff, which claims "extra strength itch relief." It's a clear kinda thick liquid consistency that went on liquid, but was drying to the skin. So far, so good: I woke up once in the light, scratched just a little bit, and was able to get back to sleep. Amazing. Perhaps in another week I'll be itch-free.

Burst of efficiency this morning: I put in two trays of veggies to roast this morning before work (one of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and onions, the other of carrots, beets, parsnips, and onions), and I finally transplanted the rosemary at work, that had been totally rootbound.

Duck! (Part 3; the long-awaited conclusion)

Harkening back unto the beginning of last month... I was on vacation in North Carolina, with 30 some odd family members...

( Wednesday )

( Thursday )

( Friday )

And so back to the usual...
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Ill-dressed tomes

The librarian at work has decided that older books in the collection will be denuded of their dust jackets. She was going to throw them away, until I said I'd take them; I'm not sure why I did.

This morning I got 3 dust jackets. One has a cool fish-eye photo of a room at the White House, and another has what looks like a Persian/Arabic picture-with-manuscript (the third is boring). I'm not sure what I thought I would do with them. I suppose I can put them in paper recycling, if nothing else.
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