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Anne Miller wrote:
Dear hubby only cut our daughters hair once before I sent her to the beauty shop to fix it or I fixed it, can't remember ...

My six year old daughter has cut her own hair three times now, despite losing scissor privileges each time.  The first time, age four, she gave herself a mullet.

I just harvested all my squash and have been clearing the bed.  It had courgettes/zukes at one end and squash at the other, and grass all in between :)

I keep saving seed from the biggest and longest lasting squashes every year;  the bees bring in pollen from other people's allotments.  I definitely got some Atlantic Giant genes for this harvest (that big pale orange one).  My son pushed this heavy heavy wheelbarrow home, ten minutes away.  It was a sunny Sunday morning and I was expecting some admiring glances from passersby, but we didn't see anyone!  I'll show off here instead.

Request:  I would find it helpful if permies had an AI policy to reference for questions like these, could that maybe be in the works?

This time of year, trying to do it on my own:  probably not going to get far.  Enlisting some help (I can usually collar my teenage son, or sometimes husband):  better.  

I was at my kitchen sink and saw this out the window, having a munch on my grapevine:  an elephant hawk moth caterpillar.  Evidently they are common?  But this is the first time I've ever seen one and was seriously amazed at its size.

Judith Browning wrote: a scrubber thingy for my scalp...I have always liked to use a dog brush (I don't share) for my hair and head...hard headed I guess🙄

Is the scrubber an actual dog brush or is it something else?  Intrigued!

I did resort to using corn starch dry "shampoo" a couple times while transitioning.  Shake it on scalp, massage in, comb out well (don't let it get wet!).  It certainly mopped up the extra grease in my case.  

About once a year or so I still do a vinegar rinse, to counter the hard water we have here.  I know to use it when my dry hair doesn't look clean and bouncy after my water wash.  The first time this happened, post- no-poo, I actually tried to shampoo my hair and it got worse:  it was still limp/greasy looking but very frizzy and dry at the ends.  

I haven't used soap or shampoo in years.  I think I must be closing in on 20 years;  when I initially made the no poo switch it took about two months and I had long hair and it was gross.  I wore a bandana constantly.  So all I can say is, it might take a while!  

Does Permies have an AI policy?  

I have chickens and ducks who get free range access under my trees which has helped, though not eliminated it.  In my view, the maggots don't really render the fruit useless;  I cut them open and wash them out.  Obviously this won't work if I'm selling the plums (I'm not);  for personal use, I'm fine with it.

I've also noticed that my maggoty plums ripen first and the clear ones ripen a few weeks later.  This second ripening are the ones I usually give away.