Friday, August 22, 2014

8/19

The boys took me and Emma on a walk. We went to Strawberry point, a rocky cliff overlooking the sea. It was a pretty exhilirating experience, walking on the ground covered in sharp rocks, putting my face into a blow hole, and watching the mighty waves crash into the shore with their powerful force. On our way back, we stopped at a ginnip tree. Joshua climbed the tree to get the really big ginnips at the top of the tree for us to try which was really sweet of him. Once I got back, I felt drained out of energy from waking up early the last couple of days so I took a really long nap. Later, Kwao took me and Emma to the lumberyard to get some wood so that we can start building our own top bar hives. At night, we made lemongrass scented soap. We first measured out the ingredients, which included vegetable shortening, rhye, lemongrass essential oil, vegetable oil, palm oil, and coconut oil. We first measured the vegetable shortening so that it could be melted while we measured the other ingredients. Once we finished melting the shortening, we cooled it by mixing it with a drill. While it was being cooled, we cut wax paper to line the inside of the soap mold with, and the rest of the ingredients were added into the cooled shortening before the the whole mixture was poured into the mold. Then the finished soap was cooled over night covered in layers of towels and blankets.






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