From time to time, dark stains mysteriously appear on our clothes. This has puzzled me over the last two years. These are not just any stains, mind you. These are the toughest stains I have encountered. And as you mom's know...we encounter our share of stains. Even with the help of my mom; the master stain fighter, and the "Queen of Clean" books, I could not get these relentless brown marks off our clothes. So, our gardening work clothes entire is growing. Not knowing the origin of these stains makes it even more challenging. As you can see from the photo, not even bleach can touch these stains!
Well, today, the mystery was solved. As I was helping my son cut down banana leaves to cover our seedlings and protect them from the sun, he warned me. "Mom, don't let the juice get on you". In my concentrating efforts to reach for the banana leaves, I did not ask him why. I should have, for I have just taken a load of laundry out of the washer, when I was shocked to see yet another offensive stain on the pants I was wearing while cutting down banana leaves. Joshua's comment replayed in my mind...and I thought, "Aha!" Then I went to Joshua and asked him why we shouldn't get banana leaf juice on us. He told me he didn't know why, he just knew that it is not good. I said, I think I know why it is not good. We already knew that elephant slobber stains clothes in just the same way. We found that out on our first elephant ride. Hmmm, maybe it is because they eat lots of bananas.
I am so thankful that God has the 100% effective stain remover. "Though our sins be as scarlet, He will make them white as snow." Isaiah 1:18
2 comments:
Huh. I never knew that banana juice leaves stains. My mom probably knew. :)
Speaking of making sins white as snow, Walla Walla has a new white blanket of snow that arrived yesterday. It's so white, it's almost blue-white!
Interesting....!!!! I knew banana peelings leave stains. I learned that from my grandma when I was living with my grandparents during college. She never let us put the empty peeling on the table cloth--we had to put it on a plate. The reason was that the empty peeling would leave a stain.
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