The Elegant Aloe Plant: a Natural Healer

The elegant aloe vera plant is perfect for household beauty and medical use. Cut off a leaf and squeeze some aloe juice onto a burn, blemish, wound or sunburn. Keep it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag, for later re-application. An aloe plant will grow strong and have an elegant shape. Aloe vera plants make perfect hostess-gifts, and an aloe plant already set in an elegant piece of crockery is a welcome gift for almost anyone. Water-efficient aloes would be perfect dorm-room plants as well, since they can suffer neglect with great dignity, and may come in very handy for youthful skin maladies and emergency wound-care.

©M-J de Mesterton 2010

Bar-S Bacon, the Old West’s Best

Bar-S Bacon is the best that I have found in the U.S. When I was a child in the far west, we ate Cudahy Bar-S brand, which morphed into Cudahy and then became the Bar-S that we know today.
Sure, Neuske’s is supposed to be the very finest bacon, but it is expensive and difficult to find. Bar-S seems to be available in all fifty states!

Courtesy of M-J de Mesterton