Witch's Brew Soaps

I used to make my own soap and then they stopped selling Red Devil Lye in the stores here and I just haven't found an alternative. The other day I saw an auction on a forum I am on for goat's milk soap so I checked out this person's website. It had some really nice soap on it and one really caught my eye because it said it was a shampoo bar. How interesting! I ordered a shampoo bar for $6.
http://www.witchsbrewsoaps.com/shampoos.html

The bar came in yesterday. It didn't really look like the bars on the website. Not nearly as clear and no pretty design on it. I didn't like that. Not that I think the design matters but I just think you sell the product you have advertised. The smell also didn't seem all that nice - lemon/lavender.
Today I got to try the bar. Wow! What wonderful lather! Better than my store bought shampoo by a long shot. And the smell? It has the lightest most lovely scent. I hope it lasts a while because $6 for me is a lot for shampoo but I am definitely wanting more of it! I have got to see about getting more lye and making this bar myself.

In Today's News

Eleven more quail chicks hatched but we lost two already. The duckling is loving it. I also had another bantam mille fluer Japanese chick hatch.
One of the quail out in the breeders pen laid me a green egg today:

 

While unusual (I have never gotten one before) I don't think this is anything special. With birds eggs are a base color (often white or blue) and the outside color of the egg is produced by the female bird and laid over the base color. When you crack a corturnix quail egg they are light blue inside because that is the base color. This egg was produced by a hen that just wasn't quite ready.

Found another baby snake in my sink yesterday morning but none (thankfully) showed up today. 

I got the day off yesterday when the brakes went out on my car, while I was driving it home, of course. I did manage to get it to the house without incident (or accident). Phil and my brother were able to fix it today by putting  a new wheel cylinder on one of the back wheels.

I have finished crocheting the hat for my niece and am almost half way through the scarf. I like them so much I might make me some.

I Thought I Would Update Again

Some things just don't need their own post so they will get an "update" post.

This morning we had a hatch of 4 quail. They seem to think the smaller duckling in the brooder is "Mama" because the duckling lets them sit under it. There are only three of them in the picture, the other one was eating.

 

The twenty quail that were hatched several weeks ago are just about ready to butcher. There have been a couple of losses but I believe there are still eighteen of them. 

This is just a pictures I took some of the older ducks this morning taking their daily bath.

 

This is today's egg collecting. I got my first blue egg today from an Ameraucana chick that I bought at Tractor Supply this spring. 

It would be no fun if there wasn't a predator somewhere. This was in my outdoor sink. I didn't even see it until I was almost done watering everyone.

I have been doing a little gardening too. The raised beds aren't really ready but I put my last bag of manure in this one along with the compost and went ahead and planted a few red cabbage, broccoli and green onions.

I also moved the potted grape vine and it is recovering from the ducks eating off all its leaves. 

This is the beginnings of a hat and scarf set that I am making for my niece for Christmas. I traded for the yarn online and found the pattern on another blog.

So that is my update for this time. I have some quilting to do for Christmas and that basket to finish those will be future blog post hopefully soon.