Chapstick Day
You don't live long in Wyoming before you find out you NEED chapstick.
It's dry here.
Humidity comes and visits, but rarely stays... at least not in the intensity that it exists around other parts of the country.
So, there are two things I ALWAYS have in my jeans pocket... my pocketknife and, preferably, Mentholatum's Natural Ice Lip Protectant. Other kinds don't satisfy me. Chapstick? yech. Flavored lip gloss... uh, nooooo. Not since seventh grade. If I want cherry, Dr. Pepper, or root beer flavors, I'll drink Koolaid or have a Dr. Pepper or A&W! Carmex... yeah, if I have to. Blistex is OK too... but I'll always fall back on Mentholatum.
It's good that I take the photos on this blog... if someone took all the pictures of me, I'm sure 90% of them would have me sticking my tongue out in some weird contortion. I'm one of *those*. The kid my mom would remind again and again... "Get that tongue back in your mouth!" In fact I think she would pat my lips and say something along the lines of "looking like a cow."
Don't be offended... she didn't mean it that way. I mean, she did... but it wasn't said in a mean way!
After living on the ranch for a while... I knew exactly what she meant.
And on days like today... I just have to laugh.
My lips are chapped.
These are the days I know I've been intent on something. I do it riding, working my dogs, reading, crafting, and even splitting wood.
I crafted a bit for my Friends of the Library wreath we're making...
and I helped Vernon split some wood this afternoon.
My chapstick was buried under my coveralls for three hours... I can tell. It's taken me all evening to grease my lips back into respectability.
Someday I'll learn from my mom... and either keep my tongue inside my mouth... or have chapstick stashed EVERYWHERE. After she died, we went through her house, and she had a fingernail file and chapstick tucked away all over her house! Smart woman.
How many chapstick days did SHE have?
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November 21, 2009 Bull Sale Part One
November 21, 2008 OOPE 2
I had to go all the way to Montana to find the best chapstick I have ever used. I bought it on a lark at TS because of the name and fell in love with the product. It is called Chicken Poop Lip Junk. If you can't find it at TS go to www.ilovechickenpoop.com
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Kathi, just getting past the name seems like an uphill climb for promoting the product!
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Yes but they promise there is no chicken poop in the ingredients LOL. There slogan is "Grampa said put chicken poop on your lips and you won't like em"
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Grew up in Wyoming, live in NOrth Carolina now. Once a chapstickalcoholic always a chapstickaloholic. We have lots of humidty and moisture out here and I still use it. We are Burt's Bees folks.
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Al-right! A Mentholatum user! Me too.
And partly because I support a WNY industry that's been here since 1903. The big manufacturing building used to face the Niagara River. We have lost so much industry around here since the '70's but Mentholatum is still her, in Orchard Park, NY. Hooray!
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Marilyn, HOW COOL. I grew up with Mentholatum... there's nothing like it!
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Your mama was one smart cookie - I have scissors in every room too.
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I definitely hear ya' about the chapstick need! I like that Mentholatum kind, too. It's the best of any I've tried, though I have quite a "collection." LOL Seeing cattle with their tongue up their nose always makes me laugh! Even though it's gross!
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You have the most beautiful cows!
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Why, Katherine, thank you. I appreciate your compliment!
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