2019 Life Logs, Day 176: Adding Bubbles to a Rainy Day
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Weather: Overcast and Rainy; High 73, Low 63 degrees
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today we managed to add a few bubbles to this rainy day. For years, no bar of hand soap has survived the Goldpebbles. One of them or all of them, not sure which, finds a way to destroy any bar of hand soap by poking holes in it, so Heather decided a couple of days ago that we should start making our own liquid hand soap. Thus, no bar to destroy. Instead, today I gave each boy a bar of soap to destroy by grating it like parmesan cheese. Then we added boiling water and glycerin, mixed it, microwaved it, and finally used a mixer to beat it which produced the bubbles. We’re letting it set overnight and if it is the right consistency tomorrow morning, we will pour it into pint canning jars and put on the dispenser lids that Heather ordered from Amazon. The reason we are doing it this way is to keep from buying liquid soap in plastic containers. We buy unpackaged hand soap at Whole Foods and can buy the glycerin in a gallon container that will last for ten years’ worth of liquid soap making, thus reducing our use of single use plastic containers. I’ll report in tomorrow night on the success, or lack of success, of this experiment. The other major activity today was watching yet another Women’s World Cup soccer match. Today we watched Italy versus China. The boys were cheering for Italy and they won the game. Then near the end of the day, we watched the last twenty of the Netherlands versus China game. The team from the Netherlands won and will play England on Thursday. Then on Friday, the US team will play France. Jonah is excited to see that game as his good friend Luke will actually be at the game in Paris with his mom. Lucky little boy! We have one more week of World Cup soccer games and are hoping the US team will reign supreme. Tomorrow we switch from soccer to baseball. It is Jonah’s tenth birthday and he is very excited that he gets to throw the first pitch in the Falmouth Commodores game tomorrow evening. And it is supposed to be a sunny day. Life is good.
