Have been looking up info on safe, environmentally friendly cleaning products that I can make myself. Decided to try making a dishwasher detergent replacement. Here is the recipe: 3 parts washing soda to 2 parts borax. This is for hard water, if you have soft water you can do 2:2 ratio. I also had a problem with a film on the dishes, so I put white vinegar in the rinse and the dishes came out perfectly clean and sparkling. Cheap and good for the environment! What's not to love?

Loving the Sunbeam

Here are some photos of my cat I took this afternoon.
The way the light looked on his fur was so ethereal that I had to capture it. I don't think he appreciated me appreciating him, though. He jumped up and stalked off to the other room right after I took the last photo. He can be so moody!

Meaty Cake

Just stumbled on this ummm, UNUSUAL cake recipe by Black Widow Bakery.
It's kind of disconcerting to look at the finished product and realize that it's not going to taste like cake at all. I'm not sure if I could get past the way it looks. My mouth would be ready for sweets, but my tongue would be tasting savory.

Here are some photos I took of things blooming in my yard. I thought I better enjoy them while I could. We have a freeze warning for tonight. The first picture is a trillium that I bought last year at the Grand Traverse Conservation District native plant sale. It was a "rescue" plant. Their native plant sale is this weekend and I plan to go pick up some more plants. Below that is one of the dozen or so lilac bushes that surround our property and the flowering crabapple tree in my front yard.

I'm all about trying to be environmentally friendly, so this new application, Local Cooling , seems like an easy way to save energy. I will install it and let you all know how it works out.

On a geeky note, I have been using Twitter occasionally, and just thought it was cool that it got a mention on Marketplace Morning Report.

You can file this next bit under religion and politics. Since the presidential races are already heating up, I found this interesting: Mitt Romney and the Mormon Church. I have a friend who is a Mormon, and while she was at my house for a Relay for Life team meeting, she happened to mention that she was wearing her Mormon Underwear. Interesting!