My Adventures in Shea Butter: Part 2

After I had finally finished the container of my last batch of Shea Butter, I set to making it again. 

I melted the Butter, got the oil all set up, and measured, then I waited for the Butter to cool. This time I waited until it was just ba-arely cloudy, because "then maybe it will stay whipped better." (No.). After waiting, I poured the sucker in, and started the mixer. I waited until it was nice and fluffy, then set to putting it in the dish.

I noticed about halfway through that it was getting hard again.

Dang it. Well, better luck next time!

In other news, I have started oiling my hair using Shea Butter. I'm starting to think that I like it! I've noticed that my hair is thicker and fuller. But it still gets staticky (Staticy? Statiky? Static-y?) which looks very unusual. Greasy static. Imagine a squid stretching. Kind of like that. Only mouse brown with bits of auburn in there.

 It DOES make my hair look.....oily, so I'm working on getting around that. I don't like people thinking that I don't wash my hair. Fortunately I wear my hair in a ponytail a lot, and that mainly covers it up.

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I Still Exist!

Hee-eello!

Yeah, sorry about that long break. The weather here has been lovely and I wanted to spend my time outside. So I did. Right now, it's cold, windy, and damp, so I'm trapped, so I got on here to post.

I hate winter.

Having to deal with the ice, and the hail, and the snow, and the cars-that-just-won't-freaking-START, and the baby goats that died, or the ones that lost their ears, and the chickens who lost their toes and combs.

I would MUCH rather deal with having to carry water out three times a day than this. All week it's supposed to be staying in the forties. In the words of  Moriarty from Sherlock BBC, "Just...staying!"

Well, my husband just walked in, and I realized I'm bleeding, so I'm off!

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The Great Outer of Doors

So before we delve into the whole post, I thought I just had to show you this picture:

D'awwww!

So.

♪We're gonna take a walk outside today! Gonna see what we can find today! Gonna take a walk outside today! Gonna see what we can find todaaaay!♫*

These are the sisters of the little black baby we have inside the house. (That sounds oh!-so racist.) The white splotchy one's name is Peony. The others is Rose. (I call her Rosey. Or Roseanne. Or Rosemary.)

And because you can never have enough pictures of my Holly, here's their Mommy. 

What's that? You wanna know what the other's Mommy looks like? Well, here you are.

This is her eating with her Mommy. She's the one eating.

This is Ivy stuffing her face. Hi Ivy!

This is...a cat. How'd that get in there? Oh, well. Hi Jasmine!

These are the turkeys. And a goat with hay on her butt. That's Daffodil.

This is the turkey's lady. We originally had three. One was really mean, so she...well...let's just say she was REALLY helpful on Thanksgiving. The other died just a few days ago. If you want to know how (It's VERY graphic. Like, REALLY, REALLY graphic.) go here. It's really graphic. We're planning to buy more female turkeys if when spring comes.

Let's go back into the barn.

Aww, this is one of our other goatie's babies eating hay. 

Awwww! Rose and Peony are laying together! Isn't tha- oh.

"We will eat your soouuuuul..."

Ooookay. Let's go look at other babies.

Aw! Like these. Let's go see.

These are Honey's babies. She's Ivy's Mommy.

This is what they look like without flash on.

I was going to show you more, like the geese and ducks, the boer goats, but then it started to sleet. So as I hustled inside, I snapped this picture for ya. 

Hi guys! How're you?? "Maaaah! Maaaaayyy!" Good to hear!

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