Candles

Lughnasa                                                 New (Harvest) Moon

Sprayed Enthuse on all the remaining crops this morning.  Next week I’ll take the soil md240asamples from vegetable beds and orchard, get them sent off to International Ag Labs.

Kate got out the double boiler and the meat thermometer.  After I cleaned rust off the candle molds, she threaded the wick through the two molds we’re using for a test run.  With the double boiler I melted the beeswax, got it to 160 and poured through a plastic funnel.  A bit messier than desirable, I imagine, but we got it done.  Now we’re waiting to see how the mold releases the candles after they cool off.  We used a chopstick to hold the wicks in place.