My house smells like lavender! I pulverized some lavender flowers in my food processor, added some baking soda, and sprinkled it all over the carpet. I haven’t vacuumed it up yet, but the house already smells so much better than it did before. I am working on migrating away from cleaning products that contain ammonia, bleach, and other chemicals. Nigel has had really bad goopy eyes recently, and I think it may be partly because of cleaning agents. A few weeks ago, I made some laundry detergent out of homemade soap, so hopefully using that along with chemical-free cleaners will help out his eyes.

My parents got me a food dehydrator for my birthday last week! It’s super neat – nine trays and temperature-controlled dehydrating. Chris and I made buckwheat pizza crust and flax crackers, which are currently dehydrating. Chris gave me a Raw Food (Un)Cookbook, which is where we got the recipes from. The two will go very nicely together, and I’m excited for this summer when we will have lots of vegetables to experiment with.