Ari Ellis

Instead of buying the stretchy hair ties, I've been cutting cross-sections of panty hose! Why do I even have panty hose, you ask? To tie up tomato and other plants. I just cut across the 'tube' of the leg part in 1/2" or so pieces. One leg yields many! I double or triple wrap each tie to make it the size needed, either/both before putting on, or as I put it on. Gives me joy to repurpose something I could never relate to for its intended purpose.

I have an instinctual reaction to Dawn soap, and avoid it like the plague. It's been awkward to tell a neighbor I can't eat off your plate, or drink from the glass which reeks of Dawn residue..... I don't know what's in it, but certainly chemical fragrances. It bothered me that it was (supposedly) used on water fowl after the (supposed) Gulf oil spill years ago.
I use wood ash to clean stuff.

I wonder how the life goes up there. I know how mine is here, in S. AZ, and find myself dreaming of an off-grid life.