My friend Julieta sent me this powerpoint file of old pictures of my city, La Plata. Most are from the early 20th century – showing a city that I never knew, and yet I can recognize.
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Author: marga (Page 74 of 158)
My little girls can really be the sweetest things in the world. Tonight, while I was talking with a friend on the phone, they prepared me a tray with lemonade, carrot sticks and blackberries. They squeezed the lemon juice themselves. Only problem is that they squeezed all the lemons and forgot (or didn’t know) about the water. As the lemonade tasted too sour to them, they kept putting more and more sugar, so much that couldn’t really dissolve. Just too cute not to mention.
I love them so much!
I’ve been thinking of making another lotion for a while, but I felt I needed a clean house and kitchen first, so I kept putting it of. Finally, today, I managed – for a very brief moment – to have a house reasonably tidy and a clean and free counter – so I figured I’d indulge myself and give my lotion-making another go.
I wanted to try a recipe for hand cream – because my hands are pretty dry, all in all, and I don’t actually have any hand cream (as opposed to body lotion, face cream and foot cream). After an extensive search online, I chose this one because it had ingredients I had at home AND because the fact that it listed ingredients by weight made me think it was more serious than most of the other recipes I find online. Apparently serious lotion-makers use weights, not volumes.
The recipe was fairly easy to make and, most importantly, it worked – that is to say, when I finished I had a lotion. But I was disappointed in finding it too thin – just as thin as the regular lotion I made the first time around. Taking another look at the ingredients, which seem to be in similar proportions as those of the first recipe, suggests why.
The lotion itself feels more oily than the first lotion I made, but only slightly so. It does seem to take more time to dry/be absorbed and I think it’s too oily to be used as hand lotion. But I see no reason to not use it as a body lotion instead.
Meanwhile I’ll be looking for another hand cream recipe – if anyone knows of a good one, let me know.
A couple of weeks ago, a Florida federal judge issue an injunction against an elementary school who wanted to incorporate a religious song into their curriculum. You can read the decision accompanying that injunction
here
The school district then went and replaced the song with another one “Chatter with the Angels”. Its lyrics are less explicit and it was a song sang by slaves, but the same judged suggested that it would be just as unconstitutional to have the children sing it. He didn’t rule on the matter because the school had agreed to remove the song, but he said: “This court is also certain that defendants understand what may happen if they continue … introducing songs that are unconstitutionally religious in nature to public elementary school students”
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