washing wool
left to right: tub for soaking. costco sized liquid dish soap. lingerie bag filled with wool, draining up out of the draining dirty water on the back side of roasting pan.
and dirt, DIRT, DIRT!!!
from the first of two soapy soaking baths, to be followed by 3-4 rinsing soaks with clean water.
yes, i know this is isn't the best thing for our drains and the drainage to our septic and greywater systems is already quirky as it is, but the pipes are short and we know how to deal with them when they do get clogged.
i'd love to do all of this outdoors, but the hot water (for really getting the lanolin, sweat, urine, poop, hay, and dirt out) is here in the bathroom....not to mention the fact that it's still freezing out there most nights and will be for another couple months. the days aren't exactly warm yet either. even if i heat water outside or haul it out, it will cool much faster than i'd like, before the wool has soaked sufficiently.
washing wool
left to right: tub for soaking. costco sized liquid dish soap. lingerie bag filled with wool, draining up out of the draining dirty water on the back side of roasting pan.
and dirt, DIRT, DIRT!!!
from the first of two soapy soaking baths, to be followed by 3-4 rinsing soaks with clean water.
yes, i know this is isn't the best thing for our drains and the drainage to our septic and greywater systems is already quirky as it is, but the pipes are short and we know how to deal with them when they do get clogged.
i'd love to do all of this outdoors, but the hot water (for really getting the lanolin, sweat, urine, poop, hay, and dirt out) is here in the bathroom....not to mention the fact that it's still freezing out there most nights and will be for another couple months. the days aren't exactly warm yet either. even if i heat water outside or haul it out, it will cool much faster than i'd like, before the wool has soaked sufficiently.