Yesterday's shave:
2018 shave #131 (DE:23 SE:42 Str:63 Cart:2)
Asylum "The Doctor" RX w/ Feather Proguard (3)
Shannon's Forest City Fern
RazoRock 24mm synthetic
Witch Hazel & Alum
Nivea post shave balm
Penhaligon's English Fern
Delayed entry, more later.
I found the samples from Sir Quijote and set them in the bathroom so I could get to them. This one smelled great from the sample. I have never heard of Shannon's and need to look it up. Just like Napa's wineries, no matter how much you read and research about them, there seem to always be more artisan soap makers that you haven't heard of. This didn't lather like most other soaps. Instead of the standard progression from fluffy, to cream to usable, this soap was shiny wet looking the whole time. It made me a little worried about the performance, but it was great. Nice and slick and gave a great shave. Just because I already have two fern scents in the soap library I probably wouldn't get this one, but I want to learn more about Shannon's for sure.
We have two cats at home. Though they are sisters from the same litter, one of them sheds more and as a results has hairballs from time to time. Well we were finding things to clean up daily for about three days in a row, and then the Tuesday she started howling as though something was outside getting her riled up, but she was hiding under chairs while doing so and not wanting her sister around. I was worried this meant she was in pain and she didn't seem to be eating or drinking much. She woke us up at 5am doing it again so we were prepared to take her to the vet. Long story short, I worked from home to take her and she slowly seemed to return to herself. So all seems good now and no trip to the vet, but I didn't get online much. Made me start thinking. I'm very much about the circle of life and every creature comes and goes, but these are the first pets for the kids and are pretty attached to us. They are only 5 year old, so they have a lot of time left, but oh boy it'll hit the girls hard when something happens to them.