3/20/2010

Saturn in Libra probably my favorite season-comes every 29 years or so and flatters and informs my Gemini. My mother was Saturn in Libra and Kimn is Saturn in Libra,
This time I notice the support to my second house Gemini-almost poverty at this point trouble paying rent and buying food and paying utilities. Utilities are high because I have washer and dryer now but my life would be impossible is I didn't and the money would be spent at the laundry anyway.
I am at the point of looking at ways to save money on domestic things small change but it adds up (jeez!! as soon as I said small change I heard Tom singing/saying "small change got rained on with his own 38")and could make the difference between supper and no supper.
I will make my own laundry soap with a recipe a friend over the internet sent me-after some start-up costs the cost of Fels Neptha, washing soda, borax I am off to the races and can make five gallons of the soap quickly well in a morning and then will have it for quite sometime.
I starated using Dr Bronner's soap in place of bathroom cleaners. This came about when I realized that the sore on Bebe's little mouth must be coming from her insistence on drinking from the toilet (clean only). I don't know how I made that connection but there it was and then after all these years of NOT using the wonderful hippie soap because of the expense I realized that I should be diluting the soap by many times and I made up a bottle of diluted rose scented Dr Bonner's and I have been using that to clean the bathroom and, happiness!!Bebe's sore is gone. Dr. Bronner's is
VERY inexpensive if diluted properly. I also use the same solution for bathing and shampooing. The soap can feel a little sticky on my hair but I use a rinse of a couple of spoons of vinegar and the sticky is gone.
My thing now is to make homemade cat food. I did this once before when we were living on Oregon St and that experiment ended in a mess of heroic proportions what with ground up raw liver,supplements,etc. Everyone including cats were grateful when I gave up. Well now I have come upon recipes using chicken (whole) and fish and mild supplements and perhaps I can find the way to make cat food less expensive than commercial brands. I refuse to feed cats the food that gave Baby Jane cancer and gave her so much suffering before we "put her down".
The makers of commercial cat food say that they no longer use that additive and the Chinese government even killed some poor Chinaman but still now there is news of CVC(spg??)protein supplement that is deadly as well. For the family I cook home slow naturally because I am old and I was taught by my Depression WW II surviving elders how to cook and plan and even garden which I am just now beginning to try. I am not so worried about ;chemicals in our diet but my grandchildren eat a lot of crap for which i blame their mother, my daughter who is lazy and doesn't like to take care or make an effort. OOHH! that is mean I guess but I have been horrified that she would rather stay on welfare than stretch and grow and learn new things. She,I know,prefers the commercial food that I would not allow in our home but which her peers were eating.
Now,of course, the TV is full of the "news" that our children are deeply unhealthy and fat or rather the children of the working people,the children who spend their early lives in childcare with ruthless schedules. The children of the higher classes are healthy, thin and well educated but our children, the children who were the "salt of the earth" in my parents generation and even mine, are now burdened with ill health and broken families from their earliest years. I wonder if creeps like our native billionaires even had an idea of how quickly their factory sweeteners,their factory proteins,etc would clear out the over population problem?? We wonder what changed the Romans so quickly some suspect lead poisoning from their plumbing. I wonder if our descendants will wonder about our rapid turn around from seven plus billion to roughly one billion? Will it be from our sickening,literally sickening foodstuffs?
I find it so sad that when people are "discovered" they are in radiant good health with wonderful teeth and strong bones and wonderful muscles and beautiful sexuality and perfect height weight ratios and good manners,etc and in one generation they are destroyed. I am not romantic here I know that people are vulnerable to infection and broken bones and the culture that worked for millinia will not get them through school in these times and on and on but I do know that trying to feed people in Utah on food made in New Jeresy is deadly. I do know that raising babies to schedules that wear out their parents, with one parent nuclear families is destroying our children and our families. We will be undone by our own weight as it were (n have no idea what that really means but I always like it.).