Getting down to the wire

I have just two days left to pack, straighten up the house, clean out the fridge, etc.  I have appointments with the chiropractor on both of those days as well as a lot of little trips here and there before I leave.

I wanted to make sure I wrote about my experience yesterday, in light of the little book I bought on the wonders of using salt, lemon, white vinegar, and baking soda.

I did a load of laundry yesterday, and while I'm always careful to make sure there are no tissues or other things in pockets, I didn't really check for big stains.  I did some juicing a couple days ago and included rainbow chard in the mix.  The stems have juice in them as well as the leaves, and the red chard has red stems, which stain pretty badly.  I was wearing white cotton capris and don't know how I got pink stain all down one side of them, but I washed them and dried them in the dryer, which usually will set a stain.  When I was folding the clothes and saw the stain I thought I would probably have to throw them away.

I looked in the little book and found "laundry solutions".  It said to make a paste of soda and vinegar, and when the fizzing stops, to rub the paste on the stain.  It also said I could use a soft brush to work at the stain, but I didn't do that.  I just smeared the paste over all the stain which went all down the left side of the pants, let it do its work for 10 minutes, and then threw it into the washer again.  When it came out it was pristine!

I'm amazed at how completely it got rid of the stain which had been "set" by previous washing & drying, but let me tell you it was worth the price of the little book!  When I get back in a month I am planning to completely go over my entire house with the solution.  I say that now but in reality I will probably not make it through the "entire house".   At my age I'm not going to tax myself completely over something that will last such a short time.  Moderation is the key!

I'm getting my hair trimmed this morning as it is starting to get into "that stage" now where I know it will be sticking out all over in another week. 

I mentioned in yesterday's post the difficulty I have in reading some blogs, as well as a lot of websites.  The blogs I read regularly don't cause me any problems.  One person commented on my font being difficult to read.  It doesn't show up that way to me, but if it does to any others who are reading this, please let me know.  I don't know how to fix it except to go back to the regular font.   I also don't understand it, but I use this font in my aol email, and sometimes in the middle of a word the font size will change.  It's the weirdest thing I ever saw, and I don't know if it's my computer or aol that is causing the problem.  

If I didn't dislike gmail so much I would go back to using it exclusively.  My main gripe is that they cut way down on the size of the space in which you can write an email or reply to one.  The only thing I can figure out is that they are trying to accommodate those who use their smart phones for email and thus have much smaller screens.   I could be wrong about that but it makes more sense to me than anything else I can think of.