Wash Your Hair with Baking Soda and Vinegar, and Make Your Own Toothpaste and Deodorant

Wash your hair with baking soda and vinegar, and make your own toothpaste and deodorant. That was my assignment.  It's simple and basic. The question I had is, "Why?"  This should not have sounded unusual to me, because once I started doing Internet searches, I found posts about it all over the place.  But I hadn't thought much about it before. Actually, I hadn't thought at all about it before. The reasons that were consistently given for doing this were: 1) These homemade personal care products are better for you than commercially made products that contain chemical additives you can't even pronounce; 2) it costs a lot less than buying products off the store shelf; and 3) they work better too.  Numbers 1 and 2 I believed; the third one I would have to see for myself.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who died in our nation's service. General John A. Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared May 30, 1868 as a day of observance "to honor those who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion."  Mourners honored the Civil War dead by decorating their graves with flowers.  The annual observance thereafter became know as Decoration Day.

How to make a picket fence American wall flag

A large wooden flag wall hanging like this would cost in the neighborhood of $100 at a store, but we made ours for practically nothing with materials we had laying around the house and yard. We built ours from old wooden fence pickets, but you could use any old (or even new) wood that you have.  We actually keep a stack of wood boards outside to weather for use in decorative projects. Here's how we built our wall flag: