gunpowderNlead's Blog

I hope you are all enjoying your Memorial Day.   I will be spending my Memorial Day inside and hosting another party later this evening that will include some board games, hot dogs, hamburgers and an old fashioned ice cream social...... I am confined to the house because I did something stupid yesterday.     I had a party here at my house yesterday that included  the Indianapolis 500,  Nascar, lots of food, pool fun, sun and alcoholic beverage to help keep everyone cool.     I had so much fun, floating around in the pool, hooked up to a bottomless pina colada and gossiping with my friends, that I failed to notice just how long I was floating around out there in the searing Texas sun.    By evening, I was begging my husband to give me a bath in shaved ice.    I am only part Cherokee, the rest is Irish and Scottish.  The part Cherokee I got was the hair, eyes and temper.... I got my lily white skin from the Europeans.   I am about as white as a white girl can be.   Anyway, a good friend of mine, CaptMax told me about a remedy you can use to help take the heat and sting away from sunburn.   I tried it last night and it worked so I am passing it on to you.   The remedy is iced tea (no sugar). 
I filled up one of my bathroom sinks with ice and water from one of the coolers  and put 4 family sized Lipton Cold brew tea bags in the water.   My husband then helped me and we would dip wash clothes into the tea, wring them out and then lay them all over my body, it was amazing how soothing it was and I could feel the heat being transferred into the washcloth from the sunburn.   We did several applications of this process, it was the only way I was able to sleep comfortably.    It works and is so easy to do!   Thank you CaptMax for suggesting this remedy to me, because of you, I was able to get some rest.