Bug Repellent Recipe

Most of you know we live in the woods. Woods have bugs and creepy crawly things. Our dogs frequently get fleas and ticks. Yuck!! Jesse had a tick on him this evening and I removed it with the essential oil of citronella. You say, What?? Honest. I dabbed some citronella oil on my finger tip and touched the back side of that tick and out he popped. Then I promptly lost it on the brown carpet. Nice move.
I've been using a blend of essential oils that I spray on them daily. Except I did not spray Jesse today. Go figure. It's great to use a more natural and NON toxic spray on them, and on me, plus it works and smells good. It must be pure high quality essential oils.

Here's my recipe for bug repellent:
1/2c water
several drops of dish soap
10 drops citronella
10 drops lavender
10 drops lemongrass
10 drops rosemary
Shake before use. Spray on before going outside and reapply as needed. I usually spray 1 to the chest of our small dog (12 pounds) and 2 sprays to our larger dog (40 lbs, 1 to chest, 1 spritz to belly). Like I said, I use this on myself. It keeps the no-seemums off of me too.

Craziness

So, here's our life the last 3 weeks. Jesse, my wonderfully cute, ADHD little dog had lot's of teeth removed. He's fine and back to eating bones again. I'm trusting that will keep his remaining teeth healthy.
I've been to 2 bee classes. I'm thinking of getting some bees, but want to work with some "old guys" first to see how they do it. They are very interesting creatures, not to mention the side benefit - honey! Yum-O.
The house, actually mortgage issues, has stalled. But, is now back in full swing. We signed on the loan Thursday afternoon, April 2nd!! Now, the real fun starts. We're packing this week in earnest. Our storage pod comes tomorrow and I've started cleaning in the 5th wheel where we'll be living while we have no house here. Let the insanity begin! Please pray for us to have the time, in between work, to pack and the back strength next week to get it all out into the storage container.