After Long Hot Day in Garden

[thistlebloom]

Nearly every day is a long hot one gardening. My routine lately is a short shower to get the dirt clods and dried sweat off, then a long soak in epsom salts. I dug around looking for that other bag of ES I knew I had and found a bottle of "Achy Daze" bath salts that I had picked up from the farmers market ages ago and never used, because I prefer showers, but these are desperate days this year...
It has ginger, grapefruit and fir needles as ingredients (with epsom salts I assume)
Smelled nice and seemed to work as well as anything.

 

[Nyboy]

I love baths, I have one shelf in bathroom just for bath oils and candles. Just wish I had more time to to enjoy them.

 

[majorcatfish]

dw has banned me froming having a bath unless she takes the pressure washer to me first..... something about a ring i leave....

 

[Nyboy]

It is good you listen to DW

 

[Beekissed]

LOVE a shower after a hot, sweaty work day! After living off grid back in our homesteading days, when every day was a hot, dirty work day and not having a shower or even running water to sluice off the grime, I make it a point to thank God each and every time I get into the shower. All these years and I still thank Him each time...THAT'S how good it feels to have a shower!

One summer my Dad rigged us up a solar heated shower of sorts but the pressure was weak and one had to really conserve the water usage, as any water used had to be replaced by carrying it bucket by bucket up a ladder to the reservoir. Don't know why, but we just had it that one summer...can't remember why he took it down. Here's a pic of our one and only summer with a "shower" back then...

 

[Lavender2]

dw has banned me froming having a bath unless she takes the pressure washer to me first..... something about a ring i leave....

Well there's the image of the day.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

DH will sometimes shower when hes been out working in the 100 degree heat. Of course, most of our shower water goes into Lowes buckets and then toted out to any living plant or tossed carefully down three stories to my garden below.

 

[Jared77]

I miss jumping in the creek after a long hot day outside. Standing on the bridge abutment closing my eyes and leaping off like a super hero. It's probably a 12ft drop. Pedal my Schwinn down there, tie my shoes together so they were easier to carry home and go cool off.

Water there was about 7-8ft deep and always moving so it stated good and cold. The creek was shaded too so it never was warm. I remember running from the shade to the sun to warm up, just to jump back in. Perfect place for kids to just be kids.

We'd be there all summer after cutting grass with push mowers so we had spending money. Then ride to the Dairy Queen and hope the person serving us wouldn't make us go back out and put our shoes.

The bridge was for what's now a walking path. It used to be an old rail line way back when. Lot of fun we had there. Now a days if kids went swimming there the parents would be charged with neglect. A creek?! That's awful! Why not have a pool like the crest of us civilized folks!

 

[digitS']

 

[Carol Dee]

Aww @Jared77 I love how and where you grew up. It is sad that kids can't be kids anymore.