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Tallow & Steel Cairo
Bitter Orange (30%) | Lime (20%) | Neroli (19%) | Geranium (11%) | Benzoin (7%) | Jasmine (5%) | Myrrh (4%) | Frankincense (3%) | Violet Leaf (<1%) | 100% natural aromatic extracts from botanicals.

Memorial Day is one of my favorite days.  Somber, solemn, sacred.  I’ve an Uncle memorialized in Flanders.  Neil Breed, owner of Heritage Brushes and a marine may have said it best “Memorial Day is not a day to thank a vet that is living.  It’s a day to remember the ultimate sacrifice of Veterans that died defending our freedom.  So don’t thank me or any other living veteran…remember and RESPECT the ultimate sacrifice that so many gave.”  I spent time thinking about the young men and women that sacrificed their lives for this Nation and me.  I don’t suppose there is any harm in honoring vets, nor visiting the resting place of loved ones.  Those are all good things but Memorial Day should always be remembered for those who died so we can live free.  
Mikes Lime seemed a fitting tribute and it was amazing.  Bright and lively just as those young solders were.  
I also honored them through service by making a flower box for my bride.  (Now she wants two more services).
After the work we went for a drive to see how the streams were running and happened upon a couple of moose.  One little bullwinkle and another big tough bruiser.  Antlers are just growing now so there was not much to see however come august that big boy is going to impress!  He looks similar in size to the three year old in the foreground but that is deceiving.  He is actually half again bigger.  They seemed not to mind us at all as they stripped cottonwood leaves and in fact we’re as close as 15 yards for some time.  We watched them for about an hour.

Nice pairing. Hoarding my Safi samples but the combo with Derby too enticing to pass. Shall give it a go in next week or so

Noble Otter / Bare

8/19/42

Spent the better part of the weekend cleaning the house...amazing how much (and where!) dust accumulates when a kitchen/baths are demolished.  And the garage...oh the garage...eight straight hours on Sat pulling everything out, creating Goodwill piles (3 trips), creating trash piles, creating "this is the contractor's stuff" pile, then putting it all back in with the hopes of being able to park the car in the garage for the 1st time since late February.  Mission (almost) accomplished...the Mrs is able to do so and that's really all that matters anyway.  Contractor is hoping to finish up this week but we're still waiting on a vanity countertop, a sink, and a showerhead.  We'll very likely have to go through the cleaning process again next weekend.  

Overall, it wasn't a bad weekend...exciting getting things ready for "normal" again.  But by the time we were done each day, it was 4 to 5 Advil and a hot shower before crashing for the night.  In other words, a "no-shave" 3-day weekend.  Holy Cow did it feel good to load up some MdC this morning and get a 3-pass BBS with the Overlander!  

Ethos Greenfresh day again. The early summer weather seems to call for Greenfresh.