Thursday, May 5, 2011

Schooling

So it's been decided to send Zora to the Minnesota Virtual Academy.  That is an online school for grades K-12.  I'm sure it going to be an unique and valuable experience I hope to be able to share with anyone interested in hearing about our progress.  It is sure to be a learning experience for me as well as for the kids.

It nice to know that she is all enrolled and set to go once fall comes around.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Bug Repellent

In all my herbal research I've found a few plants/flowers that are supposed to be good at repelling bugs.  So I have decided to do some home experimenting and try to make my own bug repellent.  I hope to find something that doesn't smell bad and is good at keeping away those pesky mosquitos.  I also am going to attempt to make some candles with something other than citronella in them to keep away the bugs.  There is about a few essential oil proported to be insect repellers.

We will see how good these are.  Hopefully I'll have something figured out by the end of this summer.  So the following summers all I have to do is make a new batch and be done with it.  If anyone would like to assist in the experiment phase let me know.  I am going to need a few testers so that I can be sure it's not just a fluke that something worked.