Judith Browning

When funding was cut for PBS, this state, Arkansas, decided to try to promote what was called Arkansas TV and give up PBS.
The public chose PBS quite loudly and it's back😊

We still borrow old pbs series dvd's from our local library.

Missing a good radio antenae for NPR and the alt radio station out of Little Rock, KABF.

Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless
mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it,
no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, smell your way to the holy
and hidden heart of it,
because in the last analysis,
all moments are key moments,
and life itself is grace.

Frederick Buechner
(1926 to pres, American author and theologian)

My most used and favorite is:
Herbal Medicine: 190 herbs to know and use.
Dr. Sharol Tilgner
https://youarethehealer.org/
she has other books equally good...this one has been handiest on my tablet and refered to often.  She participates here at permies occasionally.

I love Michael Moore's web site ....lots of free good info there.
https://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html

and we have Stephen Harrod Buhner's two books, just in case:
Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Drug-Resistant Bacteria. Storey Publishing. 1999. ISBN 978-1-58017-148-9.
Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections. Storey Publishing. 2013. ISBN 978-1-61212-160-4.
He uses much of Michael Moores information, dosages and methods of preparation.
https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/

May, I can't believe how tall your peach is already! I got a few in the ground and they are barely 2' tall...I have three in one quart pots that will be stunted for life probably but I'll get them in the ground once the fall rains begin.
and daikon! I did not get the seed you gave me in the ground and now too late I think?
I'll try in the spring but I think your August planting will make really nice roots.

Jay, we have always had deer pressure until moving to town...they are on the creek and in nearby pastures but not our gardens so far....at the old place I remember thinking they were nibbling in passing ..just a taste to see if it was worth destroying whole crops ...now I'm trying to learn 'woodchuck'....so far it has left everything else alone and is detered by the wood ashes.

The heart stands for that center of our being
at which we are truly "together."
Together with ourselves, not split up into intellect,
will, emotions, into mind and body.
Together with all other creatures,
for the heart is that realm
where I am paradoxically not only most intimately myself,
but most intimately united with all.
In order to listen with my heart,
I must return again and again to my heart
through a process of centering,
through taking things to heart.
Listening with my heart
I will find meaning.

Brother David Steindl-Rast
(1926 to pres., author, scholar, Benedictine monk)

after four hours I thought the liquid looked clear enough so I'm straining out the pigment.

photo taken in the window so liquid has some reflections and background.

May, It is settling faster but I don't know why?
I think I probably used a little less calcium if anything.

  Resuspend in the same jar with water instead of going through a filter.

and then go through a filter? or do you mean soon and then let it settle again and then filter?
At the moment I'm fine with saving up dry pigment since I've got nothing particular to dye.


EDIT: I did let it oxidate (after aerating 12 minutes) for the full three hours this time...would that have made some difference in how quick it precipitates?

and an hour later....

added small amount of dissolved calcium, stirred gently.
(1/4 teaspoon dissolved in 1 Tablespoon water) I added three 1/4 teaspoons of dissolved to vat.. so that would be 1/8 teaspoon of dry calcium used? probably a little less because my Tbs of water was a 'bit' more 🙄
.....gonna go mow now so I ignore for awhile😊

8am, 20 hours.
used dehydrator for last 3 or 4 hours (at 105F turned down to 95F) because the house was cool last night and there was no color visible at 4am.

strained at 8am,
added small amounts of the 2 grams measure of washing soda until blue while pouring from jar to jar for 12 minutes....used the full 2 grams.

8:30am....will let oxidize now until 11:30am.