Work day

So today, like yesterday, I worked for someone else. Mom stayed home on the farm and worked on a few things she has going on and started the Thanksgiving cleaning. Some new soaps and a new trellis to mention a few. And of course it is coming to the end of the year and we are working to Freshen the Web pages. So she was also stuck at the computer a bit more then she likes.

So I went to a lady’s house that is a single Mom and spent the day helping her get the outside of her house back in order. Sometimes being a Cowboy means being a gentleman and helping out where you can. So Cowboy or not I ran a weed-eater, climbed on a roof and even torched piles of dead grass and leaves. I will say that I am no wiz with the weed-eater and there is a reason that Mom runs the one here on the farm. However, give me a lawn torch and man can I get things done. It was really awesome to use and I Loved it. There is nothing like throwing flames around to clear brush and weeds. I did get her horses rode so that part was Cowboy.

I was gone all day and got home after dark to find that Dad had already done the chores. I also found that Mom had made a new soap. I have to admit it is pretty cool. She made Loofah soaps this time. For those of you who don’t know Loofah soaps are handmade soaps with Loofah incorporated into the soap.

That means Mom first grew the Loofah. Then just weeks ago her and I harvested and peeled them. Peeling a loofah is somewhat of an art but we learned as we went and got the job done. Then for I don’t know how long the harvested, peeled loofah have been drying on the rack in the laundry room. From time to time Mom would go in and turn them and fuss with them but for the most part they just laid there drying.

Then today she picked one that was all the way dry. She cut it into the size of her mold and then fixed up her wonderful goat’s milk soap. Then she dunked the loofah into the liquid soap set them into the molds and proceeded to fill the mold. Now, I honestly have no idea how these loofah soaps will turn out but Mom is worried about air bubbles and the look of the tops of them. She says they aren’t her prettiest soaps she has made but it is her first batch so we will see.

Mom also put part of the two new trellises together. She loaded one in the back of her truck and one she put in the wagon and pulled to the garden. Friday, Mom and I will be going to meet the Community Garden Manager in the garden to set up the one we are donating and sponsoring there. I will have to help Mom put her’s in the ground at some point as her hand got to hurting from moving the heavy blocks that hold the legs in place.

The rest of Mom’s day was spent cleaning up the web page and finding new pictures and stuff like that. I think I am going to put a new Theme to mine as well because those clouds look a bit kid like to me.