Wishing everyone a very blessed and safe Friday and weekend......

Last weekend my daughter, myself and my friend Donna went to check out some garage sales. Somewhere along the way I ran into a 'pack' of chiggers and they decided that I was an 'all you can eat buffet'!!!!

It's amazing how miserable these tiny little guys can make you!!!

I searched online for some natural remedies to bring some relief to the itching. I found the following recipe....haven't tried it out yet!!!

3 Tablespoons finely chopped garlic

3 Tablespoons coconut oil

3 Tablespoons olive oil 

Combine these using a wand-type hand mixer. Blend at slow speed, then at high for two minutes. Pour the mixture through a screen to remove chunks of garlic that the blender may have missed. Pour into a wide-mouthed jar and label and store for 2 weeks in the refrigerator. After an hour in the refrigerator, it turns into a thick, soft paste.

 In addition to the anti-infective/anti-fungal/anti-parasite properties of the garlic, the coconut oil is also anti-microbial. 

Great idea for camping! Insect bites and rashes literally disappear when GOOT is applied. Rubbed into the skin, GOOT transfers raw garlic oil directly into the blood stream. Apply to the feet of children or infants to fight infections. Rub on chest for chest colds, pneumonia or rub into nostrils for sinus infections. Applied to the nostrils will help clear congestion. Apply directly to sores inside the mouth. Rub on Athlete's foot or genital area for jock itch. Can be inserted as needed for yeast or other related infections. Place on cotton swab for ear infections. GOOT kills Candida, parasites, bad bacteria and virus by direct application. Systemic infections can be treated by absorption through the skin into the blood supply, traveling throughout the body.

Someone else suggested rubbing the peel of a banana on insect bites.....then eat the banana!! (double dose of good!!)

Thank you to my friends for your positive support and wishes during this tragic time in my sons' life.

It's a sad situation.....their 18 year old friend was going to this residence with a 16 year old, to 'rob' the occupant. The story is that the younger brother who lived there was supposed to have 'robbed' the 16 year old previously, and he was going in to get back what he felt belonged to him. When Gage (the 18 year old) tried kicking in the door, the older brother (age 20) opened the door and fatally shot Gage, then the 16 year old shot the guy who shot Gage.  The 20 year old's name was Roland.....the wounds to his face were so extensive that they are waiting on the Coroner's Report for a 'positive identification'. The younger brother, who evidently this retribution was aimed at, was not home at the time.

The 16 year old is now being charged with TWO counts of murder because according to the law, if someone dies while you are in the process of committing a Felony, then you can be charged for the death.....regardless if the death was by your hands or not. At the time he is being charged as a juvenile, but the news reports say that they can motion for him to be tried as an adult.

Teens with guns.....I just think it is so sad that today's youth don't realize what a dangerous game they are playing when they have a loaded weapon in their hands.

R.I.P. ...........Gage and Roland

Just wanted to share my new butterfly tattoo with my friends!!!!!!

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THIS --------->   is ME .........

I just found out this morning that my son and his girlfriend found a home!!!! This is the son who asked if he could stay with me for a couple of weeks til he got on his feet....9 MONTHS ago!!!!!! Now...I LOVE my son to death, but I will be soooooo happy to get my apartment back to myself!!!!

I got a new position at work that will be a little less stressful and physical, so I'm very excited about that!!!

I also got a new tattoo last Saturday that I am pretty excited about!! I've been wanting to get it for quite awhile, but with my old position at work I had to wear a harness and it would rub in every single area where I wanted to get artwork....making for a questionable healing process!!

 I can slowly feel me coming back to ME!!!!!!