Towel Dye

 The weather has been freezing last couple nights.  

I get up, go out and get the hummingbird feeder, pour the slush the solution has become, if not solid ice, into a coffee mug and microwave it to liquid again, then put it back in the feeder and take it back out.  They don't seem to mind microwaved sugar water.  

I go out barefoot and without a coat because it takes awhile for the 25 or 27 degree cold to seep through body fat.  By the time that happens, I'm back inside.

Body fat can come in handy.   I watched a season of Alone, where they dumped former contestants who had lost out in Mongolia I think it was, to try to be the last person out there.   They get to have a few survival tools with them.   They build their own shelter and have to find all their own food. And they all slowly or quickly starve so badly they give up, one by one.

 So this one guy with a great sense of humor said he brought 70 pounds of extra food with him, then pinched his belly fat.  His strategy this time around was to start fat and let his body consume it, over the month to three months the show would last.  He won!!!   He didn't catch many fish or much of anything really but body fat paid off for him with the win.

I only got two of my cage covers back after the woman returned the cats to the colony for me.  I'm so short by now on cage cover towels, that this irked me.  However she brought some by at some point last night, because I found a box out front with four towels in it.  They're white and cream.  

White towels make a trap stand out and I don't use them except for once the cat is in the car in the trap.   Since many of my towels have never been seen again, after I loan traps and covers, especially my cherished dark towels, I decided to try to dye these white ones.   I cut two of them in half, since they were also too long, wet them down, and put them into the washer, full of hot water and half a cup of salt and my remaining brown RIT dye.   I don't think I have enough dye for the four towel halves to end up very dark, but we'll see.

Washing machine with RIT dye in the water.  I also added a couple kettles of boiling water twice.

White towels are turning brown but not that brown

Finished product.  Better than white!   

I had half bottle of blue jean blue RIT too, and am seeing how the other two towels might come out with that.   

The other things I found outside my front door last night were bags of Walmart groceries.  I did not order them.  This is the second time I have received a Walmart order that was not mine.  The first time I was home and the delivery driver spouted out my name and address, on the order.  How could this be, when I didn't order these things.  Then I figured it was someone who once ordered me something and was having issues with checking the box for the right address.  I called the likely suspect and sure enough.  I then delivered her groceries on to her.  Same person this time, same problem with her not checking the correct address when ordering, horribly apologetic, and because I didn't have the frig space to hold her stuff overnight, I delivered them on to her last night.

I'm trying to stay off facebook and grossly limit any time I spend on it.   Not that easy.  But its destroying my mental health lately.   It creates this false sense, for me, of friendships that in reality do not exist at all.  What a fool I can be, sitting here alone day in day out thinking well I have friends on facebook.   What a joke!!!!   I'm trying to not be so stupid.   And get out into the world to have some real life contact.

I'll update with exciting recolored towel photos once I fish them out of the dye bath.

These came out a nice color, for cage covers that is.  Started out as white and cream.