Day by Day with Camille

 I have been reading a lot recently about fire cider, and yesterday evening, I decided to make my own version of it. It was an ideal time, as there was a full moon last night, and a good time for such concoctions. I chose a glass jar as a container for it to ripen in, and it is now residing on my kitchen counter, along with fermenting bottles of homemade blackberry and blueberry wine. I filled the jar about half full of apple cider vinegar to begin with, then I began adding the other ingredients. Fresh key lime (whole, but cut in half), whole cloves, a cinnamon stick, a few garlic cloves. fresh ginger root, dried chives, dried parsley, dried thyme, dried rosemary, a sprig of fresh rosemary, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, dried lavender buds, ground tumeric, and a dried bay leaf. I shook the jar slightly, then finished filling it up with apple cider vinegar, then closed the jar. I will now allow it to ripen. 

  I have a story to share with you about Total by Verizon and CVS. Yesterday afternoon, I purchased a cell phone at the Thomasville NC CVS on Randolph St. I also purchased a prepaid Verizon card with $30 on it, for service. Earlier today, 4 separate times, I tried to activate the phone, and was told it could not be activated. So.....I returned the phone to the CVS, and received a refund for the phone itself. Unfortunately, the $30 card was not refundable, nor was I allowed even CVS store credit for the money that I paid. I left the card with the cashier who refunded my money with the instructions to please give it to the next person who bought a phone, as I now had no use for the card. I have contacted Total by Verizon online, and all I got was some silly automated reply. #customerservice #TotalbyVerizon #CVS #thomasville # #NorthCarolina #payitforward All reactions: 1 Loretta Green

Yesterday afternoon, I made some Star Jasmine water. I learned about the benefits of jasmine online, so I decided to make my own version of a Jasmine water. I picked Star Jasmine at my patio, added a small amount of vodka, then water.  You can make water without the vodka stabilizer, but you will not have as aromatic flower water.