I am so itchy...

I am allergic to deer fly bites...seriously.  I get puffy welts when they bite me, the bites itch and hurt and it is miserable...but I still love farming.  Even deer flies can't keep me away from pickin' beans.
We were picking mint the other day and Lissa had this great idea to make some mint oil and take a cool bath...the mint to soothe  my itching and my frazzled nerves (from always being itchy).  The cool water helps to minimize the itching as well.  I took all the stems and clippings from the mint we picked and boiled it for about 30 minutes until the water was greenish brown and the cabin smelled like mint.  I then strained all the leaves and stems, and dumped it in the bathtub. This is not really how you make mint oil but for my purposes it worked really well. 

I poured a cup of the mint water in a mug and threw some peach black tea in and enjoyed it in the tub, a good soak and some quiet time made all the itching go away...at least for a while it subsided I will be taking some Benadryl tonight just to make sure I get some sleep. 

Tomorrow, I will be joining the guys in the swawp digging for roots to use on one of Grant's birch bark canoes.  You can look forward to that post, I am sure I will have a lot to say or complain about in that post.