Christmas Truce Items from Sabaton Shop for Christmas Gifts, by Ms. Dashwood, Sunday, Dec. 11th, 2022

Christmas Truce Items from Sabaton Shop
Christmas Truce Video by Sabaton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdHkHslFIU

 The Swedish metal band, Sabaton, and their song and video for Christmas Truce.

Christmas Truce by Sabaton.

Vinegar of the Four Thieves: To Purchase or To Make at Home? Mrs. Dashwood at The Merry Rose Makes at Home Sunday, March 8, 2020

Vinegar of the Four Thieves: To Purchase or To Make at Home?
Mrs. Dashwood at The Merry Rose Makes at Home Sunday, March 8, 2020

Vinegar of the Four Thieves: To Purchase or To Make at Home?
Mrs. Dashwood at The Merry Rose Makes at Home Sunday, March 8, 2020

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Four Thieves Vinegar in Times of Worry about Corona Virus

Here at the Merry Rose General Store, Mrs. Dashwood loves to keep ingredients on hand to make Vinegar of the Four Thieves. This legendary recipe was credited with protecting people against the plague. Today, with corona virus affecting people, the economy, and daily life--whether or not the level of response is correct--the stores are running out of hand sanitizer and face masks.

Alternatives if Stores Run Out of Hand Sanitizers and Face Masks

Mrs. Dashwood found that if hand sanitizers and face masks are out of stock, that there is one alternative offered: Mixing alcohol and aloe vera gel for a homemade hand sanitizer.

Mrs. Dashwood went to her favorite grocery store, and saw that the store had run out of alcohol, but had aloe vera gel for sunburns. This sparked another question, as to whether the sunburn aloe vera gel was ok to use.

How to Make Gel Alcohol Hand Sanitizer via WikiHow

According to Wikihow, use the purest aloe vera gel available. Also use rubbing alcohol that 90%.
Mrs. Dashwood's isopropyl alcohol was only 70%, but she will continue to search the stores.
Here's the recipe:
2/3 cup isopropyl alcohol
1/3 cup aloe vera gel
Mix, and pour into a glass bottle or a spray bottle.
This should last for six months, if stored away from direct sunlight.

How to Make Four Thieves Vinegar Hand Sanitizer and Disinfectant

With Four Thieves Vinegar credited with protecting folks from the plague, and with vinegar acknowledged by science to kill flu virus, it seems logical to apply this concoction in hopes that it might help protect against corona virus.

Here's Mrs. Dashwood's Recipe for Vinegar of the Four Thieves

NOTE: Mrs. Dashwood and the Merry Rose Home, Garden, and Farm want to note is the cautious approach to wormwood. Leave this out for recipes that will be consumed.

Mrs. Dashwood’s Basic Recipefor Vinegar of the Four Thieves

Begin with a clean and dry glass container. Mrs. Dashwood loves to use canning jars with screw-on lids, and uses a clean, dry freezer bag to put between the top of the jar and the lid, to keep the vinegar from reacting with the metal of the lid.

Then, Mrs. Dashwood fills the canning jar about 4/5 full of vinegar. While organic apple cider vinegar is always preferred, regular apple cider vinegar will work. So will apple cider-flavored or white vinegar, if that’s all that’s available.

Then, Mrs. Dashwood adds several cloves of garlic, the main ingredient. It’s up whoever is making this vinegar whether to add the garlic cloves whole, to press them in a garlic press, press with a knife, chop, or do whatever works.

Now it’s time for Mrs. Dashwood to choose what herbs to add to the vinegar and garlic. Mrs. Dashwood is lucky enough to have planted sage, thyme, and lavender in her garden here at the Merry Rose. Fresh herbs are the best for this vinegar. However, dried herbs, though less effective, work fine too.

Here is a list of herbs for Four Thieves Vinegar:

Sage

Thyme, Lemon Thyme

Lavender

Marjoram

Dill

Mint, Spearmint, Peppermint

Rosemary

Cloves

Let the Four Thieves Vinegar set for a while.

Some people say to keep it in a dark area. Others say anywhere is fine.

Doctors Might Not Have Worn The Bird Facemaks https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/505090/doctors-didnt-actually-wear-beaked-masks-during-black-plague 

 By I. Columbina, ad vivum delineavit. Paulus Fürst Excud〈i〉t. - 1. Johannes Ebert and others, Europas Sprung in die Neuzeit, Die große Chronik-Weltgeschichte, 10 (Gütersloh: Wissen Media, 2008), p. 197. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3DVH8dVGkX0C&pg=PA1972. Superstock: Dr. Schnabel of Rome, a Plague Doctor in 1656 Paul Fuerst Copper engraving (Stock Photo 1443-1112), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15695681

Four Theives Vinegar: “Does Four Thieves Vinegar Protect against Corona Virus? The Merry Rose Home, Garden, and Farm: Vinegar of the Four Thieves. March 7, 2020. Mrs. Dashwood’s Recipe, Adapted from Various Other Recipes.”

https://merryrosehomegardenfarm.blogspot.com/2020/03/four-theives-vinegar-does-four-thieves.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-01-12/does-vinegar-really-kill-household-germs/8806878

An Online Store: Ancient Resource, a Site for All Types of Ancient Artifacts , Discovered Aug. 12, 2019

Ancient SPANISH 'PIRATE' COIN- Genuine 350+ Years Old- Double Dated | eBay

Mrs. Dashwood loves to surf the internet in the evening, when the day has quieted down. This evening, Monday, August 12th, 2019, she remembered going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There, she saw, among all the artworks, jewelry for women of Ancient Rome. She got the feelings that most visitors get upon seeing personal items from long ago. In this instance, the items were gold earrings worn by women alive during the time of Ancient Rome. Actually, the earrings, a type of thick hoop design, looked very similar to the ones that Mrs. Dashwood owns, and that many modern women own, especially during the last decades of the 20th century. Thus, Mrs. Dashwood felt a connection with the Ancient Roman women, who liked and wore the same type of jewelry that she did. Keeping in mind how interesting ancient jewelry is, she ran a search, and among many website, she selected Ancient Resource. http://www.ancientresource.com/index.html

The Los Angeles-based business offeres a large selection of ancient artifacts, including jewelry, statues, coins, amulets, and other items too numerous to mention. The site is divided into ancient areas, such as Ancient Egyptian, Greece, Celtic, Medieval, Holy Land, Persia, and even updating a it into Pirate and Shipwreck treasure.

The owner has written the following information:

"My artifacts are all authenticated and legally acquired, and come from old collections, museum deaccessions, auction houses and institutions throughout North America, Europe and Australia, and I stand by my coins and artifacts with a 100% guarantee of authenticity. With an over 95% return customer rate, I pride myself in honesty, quality, and great customer relations!
-- Gabriel Vandervort, Owner, Ancient Resourcef authenticity". W

Actually, Mrs. Dashwood doesn't have the funds right now to purchase any of these artifacts. Thus, she can't provide a product review of the items and/or business. However, she greatly enjoyed clicking on the various choices, such as "Celtic tribes" and "Pirate and Shipwreck treasure."

"Celtic tribes" showed sections for "Ancient Celtic Bronze Horses and Warrior Artifacts," as well as for coins, gods and goddesses, and battlefield finds. These bronze items look mysterious and beautiful, photographed in some detail on a black background. These types of items seem to run less than $500, and often only a few hundred dollars. Mrs. Dashwood learned that the Celts had "money rings," which served the dual function of being money and jewelry to wear. Some of the "low grade, bent, crusty" rings are only $20.

"Pirate and Shipwreck treasure" artifacts mostly involve various forms of coins from unlucky Spanish ships. One in particular is the Consolacion, wrecked in 1681 on a reef in Ecuador. These coins are in the pricey range, from about $400 to $900, more or less.Owner, A

In short, Mrs. Dashwood enjoyed not only viewing the artifacts, but also reading information about the history and location of the artifacts. PLEASE NOTE: The photographs accompanying Mrs. Dashwood's article are NOT from the Ancient Resource website. Mrs. Dashwood just ran a search and used some copyright-free images for the purpose of providing some illustration. To see the images from the Ancient Resource website, just go to their webpage:)

Disclaimer: Mrs. Dashwood receives no funds for these types of reviews. She simply finds websites that interest her, and that she thinks may be of interest to readers of The Merry Rose General Store. Mrs. Dashwood has no way of knowing if the items are authentic or not. They look authentic, and Mrs. Dashwood is inclined to believe that they are authentic. Mrs. Dashwood adds these words of caution as in any transaction, summed up in Wikipedia: Caveat emptor (/ ˈ ɛ m p t ɔːr /; from caveat, "may he beware", a subjunctive form of cavēre, "to beware" + ēmptor, "buyer") is Latin for "Let the buyer beware".

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Metal Detectors for Home, Garden, and Farm, via Minelab Quattro Series metal detector

Mrs. Dashwood loses a lot of metal items, in her home, yard, and farm area. She never thought about purchasing a metal detector. Instead, she would spend hours, days, weeks, months, and even years looking for lost items. This evening, Mrs. Dashwood, who loves to read about the American Revolutionary War, found a webpage with Revolutionary War items, called Minuteman Treasures,  http://minutemantreasures.com/5139/41501.html

The writer noted the items were found with a metal detector, and recommended the Minelab Quattro Series metal detector.
It's important to note that "metal seekers" must stay on their own property, must ask permission of land owners to search on private property, and must learn the local, state, and federal rules, if any, regarding metal detector "mining." However, after reading about metal detecting, Mrs. Dashwood now would like to begin to pursue this activity and see what she can find.
The Minelab Quattro Series metal detector can cost almost $1000, but also can be found for much less.

Minelab Quattro Series metal detector
http://metaldetectorreviews.net/detectors/30-1-minelabquattro.html

Merry Rose Home Warnings : Candle Soot : Carbon Coating Homes Tuesday, November 20, 2018 by Mrs. Dashwood

On this sunny, very cold Tuesday, the twentieth of November, Mrs. Dashwood was glad to have scheduled someone to visit her home to clean the gas heater, an older wall model that still works fine. Mrs. Dashwood was just getting ready to light a sweet-smelling pumpkin spice-scented candle when the contractor arrived. In this day and age, with lots of allergies, etc., it seems polite to ask if burning the scented candle is a problem. The contractor answered no, but did mention that soot from candles can eat away at dry wall tape, that he had seen that happen in a church that burned candles a lot. At that moment, we both looked up at the ceiling, where the dry wall tape was beginning to show signs of coming apart.

Needless to say, Mrs. Dashwood, who loves burning candles, was shocked. She had never heard of such a thing. She promptly decided not to light the wonderfully-sweet smelling pumpkin spice candle. Later, after the furnace was clean and humming along fine, warming the living room, Mrs. Dashwood made a cup of steaming, stove-top espresso coffee, and sat down to research this situation online.

The contractor was not kidding. Candle soot can be a serious and expensive problem for homes.

Esurance gives this information on its webpage:

"Soot, which can be mistaken for mold or dirt, can cause irreparable damage and cost homeowners sometimes tens of thousands of dollars. Homeowners insurance may or may not cover damage resulting from this black substance.
Soot, chiefly made up of carbon, can coat your walls, television screens, and computer monitors, as well as your carpet, furniture, blinds, and drapes. It can even infest your ventilation system's ductwork."

https://www.esurance.com/info/homeowners/the-dark-side-of-candles-soot-damage

 

 

Another source is Chimney Keepers:

 

"'Due to the lack of air exchange, burning a single candle a week in a tight, well-insulated home can cause very worrisome wall darkening,' according to Jeffrey C. May, a professional home inspector in Cambridge, MA."

 

http://chimneykeepers.com/resources-2/that-mysterious-soot-might-be-from-candles/

 

Prevent Soot in the First Place

 

Most all sources advise against scented candles, unless they are in a ventilated area such as a fireplace. Other suggestions are to keep the wicks trimmed to 1/4 inch, and to keep burning candles out of drafts.

Sugaree's Bakery in New Albany, Mississippi, Offers Wondrous Goodies, via Mrs. Dashwood Nov. 11, 2018

This past summer, 2018, Mrs. Dashwood was visiting a dear friend in the area of New Albany, Mississippi. There she was taken to a wonderful bakery on the main street in this charming little town. Sugarees.com makes it easy to Order Online, or visit in person at 110 W. Bankhead Street, New Albany, MS. 38652 662.534.0031. Mrs. Dashwood purchased some delicious pecan tarts and wedding cakes to share with family and friends. It's always fun to find a great bakery!

 

Sugaree's

Almost Like Papps, Shoes Like Pappagallos, by Mrs. Dashwood Sat. Nov. 3, 2018 for The Merry Rose General Store.

Here are some shoes that Mrs. Dashwood found online that are almost like Pappagallos from the '60s and 70s.

Bailarinas can be found on ebay https://www.ebay.com/sch/45333/i.html?_nkw=bailarinas&ul_noapp=true
Mrs. Dashwood purchased these. For her foot, these are a bit narrow.
However, they look very good, and she enjoys wearing them.

 

 

 

 

The next set of shoes is from Everlane, and called "Women's Day Glove." 

Mrs. Dashwood doesn't have a photo, so here is the link: 

https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-day-glove-caramel?collection=womens-shoes 

These flats are made in Italy from soft Italian leather in a variety of attractive colors.

Personally, Mrs. Dashwood wishes that the shoe was cut lower, almost to toe "cleavage."

She hasn't tried or purchased them, but the shoes have a lot of positive feedback from customers. 

Mrs. Dashwood likes the trim, skimmer look, and the wide seamed back, which hearkens to the Papps heels.