I bought a ceramic neti pot at a local co-op. According to its tag it was made at a women's collective in California. It's purple. I'm pretty sure I was wearing my birkenstocks when I bought it, too.

Hee. I got mine at CVS. It's blue and white plastic, and the box is covered with info on how effective it is and endorsements from doctors. It comes with a bunch of individually-packaged sterile packets of salt/baking soda solution to mix with the water.

Ha. I saw a pretty one at our local organic grocery. But I bought cereal instead.

Two Lumps namechecked neti pots today!!

Speaking of great music from yesterday's concert (we were talking about that here, right?), I lovedlovedloved Jon Bon Jovi's duet with Betty Lavette, whom I had never heard of before, but now want to buy her albums. She's terrific! (And Bon Jovi was wonderful with her.)

Which kind of soup should I make for dinner tonight -- lentil or split pea?

The Web site for Bishop Robinson's diocese has the text of his prayer, which I think is lovely.

I'm making the split pea soup, because I realized that I don't have enough lentils for lentil soup.

Making split pea soup tomorrow. Umm using a pork rib for flavor. (Unless I can get nitrite free, don't use bacon, ham or hamhocks, cause I found that cutting out nitrate reduces my headache frequency a lot. )

My split pea soup has lots of rosemary and garlic for flavor. If I'd followed my plan and made bread today, then I'd have bread to dip in it, but I got bogged down in laundry and cleaning and forgot about the bread. Maybe I'll make that tomorrow.

My sister linked me to a pretty funny blog post about the neti pot. It has one of the youtube vids embedded.

I'm going to a viewing. I know some of the family members, but not the 22 year old son who passed away.

Mmmm, the split pea soup sounds good. I'm making beef barley soup right now. I made beer bread last night to go with it.