The total of my day

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I think I got a lot done. Scrubbed two toilets. Cooked two or three times. got all the garbage out for the pick up. Did dishes. That is about it for indoors. Planted herbs in various places outside. I had some mullein that had self seeded in a six inch tall planter. All well and good, except mullein grows over six feet tall, plus I wanted to plant something else in the planter. I put it out along a fence row. Some of my mint varieties would like to take over the world. I put some under one of the outdoor water faucets. I want it to grow all around the perimeter of my house. It smells good to us. It does not smell good to ants and spiders and mice. I had purchased a pot with two purple basil plants in it. I planted them with my two Roma tomato plants. Basil and tomatoes are good companion plants. Back in the house I made my herbal first aid salve. It is infused with some herbs and other things. Hubby used to always keep antibiotic ointment in his pocket. He likes this better. I paid $12 for 2 oz. of it last year He took it away from me because it healed his skin so fast. I put it on scrapes and cuts and bug bites. Hubby cut the plywood and we put up another section in the big shed. It is coming right along. I mowed a while. I have also talked to my sister today. Found out when her appointment is out of town. My image is a plant known as plantain. Not the banana kind. Native Americans called it White man's walking foot, as it came with them from Europe and spread every where they went. It grows well in gravel and desolate places. It is an effective treatment for bug and insect bites as well as for poison ivy, I am told. My herbal teacher used it in a salve she treated her shingles with. Interesting additional info: The seeds from the bloom stalk are psyllium. Metamucil comes from one variety of plantain. Oh, it is also edible. Like lettuce.