It is Freezer Defrosting Day

 

Its freezer defrosting day. I have needed to do this for a while now. I don’t actually use the freezer part just the fridge, I have a bigger freezer to use.  Once it is finished defrosting i am going to give it a good scrubbing. I am also going to set it up on some milk crates to make it taller. (Its a mini fridge if you couldn’t tell). 

While it was defrosting i decided to play around with bread bags making plarn (plastic yarn). I have done this before but used an assortment of bags and did not like the outcome because the bags were all different thicknesses. I also didn't like crocheting with the plarn.  So what did i try this time?  You probably guessed it…..Tunisian Crochet!

One complete row is about 1 full bag worth of loops looped together. 

Well it looks like it is working ok. I turned it up a notch. I do not want my fridge stuff freezing. 

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For those who are wondering how my foot is …. It is still a bit sore. The swelling is down since Tuesday. I can walk on it with boot on, and without the boot and a crutch.  I think it will be healed in no time.   

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I Got A New Boot

 

I have a fancy new boot.  Not

Exactly the kind of boot i would dream of having and wearing. 

Last night i missed a step on the way down our stairs. I am 99% sure my ankle is not broken. It is just badly sprained. Reading online at sprain information i am going to say at least a level 2 and more likely a level 3.   No worries if it does not get better i will go to a doctor. Just do not see a reason if i can stabilize it myself, which is what a Dr would do and charge me a pretty penny. 

I got on my church ladies messenger and asked for a knee scooter or walker with a seat that i could borrow. I also asked on my FB friends.  By 5:00 today a friend had offered and brought the boot and a church lady is loaning me her walker. Hopefully she does not need it before i am back on 2 feet. 

The boot, within a couple hours, had appeared to reduce the swelling a bit.  I have a pair of crutches i am using for now. The walker should be delivered tomorrow.   The combination of the two (boot and walker) should make working this weekend a little easier.  Still will be difficult and a challenge for sure.  

Prayers would be appreciated.  Several have already been answered. Quick healing is an important one that i am praying hard about. 

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Too Cold!

 BURRRR! I thought it was cold on Friday.  Um Yah it is really cold now!!  It's also snowing and suppose to snow all day.  It is currently 12:40PM and we are at 0°. 

Last night i worked on a sleeping WIP. It is s double thick loom knit hat i started last fall sometime. 

I am on the second side, which will only be 2 big stripes.  I am using e-wrap.  The yarn is a little on the thin side but I think once I double it up it will be warmer than it looks.  I am doing it like an addi hat.  I worked a little on the loom knit scarf the past couple days and have made a little progress. 

9:15pm

Overall we had a good day and weekend despite the wintery weather.  I did finish the hat today.  The loom is a 54 peg. I started with a drawstring cast on and made a total of 80 rows with e-wrap. I finished it off like an addi hat.  The next one i think i will make 90 rows. This one is long enough but just barely. 

Here is both sides of the hat:

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Slow Friday Thanks to the Weather

Happy Freezing Friday! I brought you a cuppa hot chocolate to warm up with. You are going to need it, trust me. 🥶  It is currently 1:23 pm  and 17° but it feels like ZERO. Burrr!  It was 51° inside this morning at 9am which, compared to outside, felt pretty good. Last time i checked the thermostat said 61°. It is set on 66° but i do not expect it to make it, thus it will run all day. 

Our phone/internet has been down since about noon.  It happened right in the middle of taking a customers order. Good thing we have a BackUp plan A and BackUp plan B. Business will continue semi-normally, just no call in orders until service is restored. 

Anyway on to happier thoughts.

FOOD 😃

Last night i baked some toffee bites cookies. They are almost gone,  so today i will be baking some double chocolate chip cookies. Gotta keep my customers happy. Plus the oven will help heat it up for a little bit. 

Last night i also made a big pot of homemade potato soup.  It definitely is cold enough for soup, but potato is not what the customers are wanting. They keep asking for my homemade chicken noodle.  Honestly i have not had time to make it lately. When i do though, i better make a double batch. 

Last night for supper i had a polish sausage with sauerkraut.  Holy smokes was it delicious!  It is currently a limited time menu item and i used this picture to post to the business social media sites to advertise it. (same with the soup and cookies photos) 

This morning i fixed waffles for brunch. Mmmm they were good. I prefer waffles over pancakes and french toast 99% of the time. 

Enough food til i make cookies later, which i plan to start on as soon as i am finished with this post draft. No worries i will share a picture of them. 😃

Now it is FIBER NEWS🧶 

I am almost finished with the second hat for the January Challenge. Yes i planned the colors on this one, but i assure you they were all scraps. 🧶

I also started a loom knit scarf. This yarn is perfect! 🧶

Ok off to make those double chocolate chip cookies …….

Our internet/phone service was restored around 2:00, while i was working on those yummy cookies. 

3:30pm Cookies are  baked and ready to sell.  Good thing they are to sell because i could eat the whole dozen myself. 

I only baked a dozen but i have enough cookie dough for 1 maybe 2 dozen or so more. I will make them up as these sell

About 4:30

Hubby and i decided to cover up the window AC unit. Dunno why we waited so long. Probably because this is the coldest its been so far this winter. It did help a lot. 

After that i got some toys ready to restock one of the redemption games at our restaurant 

Around 8:00pm I made an apple crisp for hubby and me to share. It is not very big, i just used 1 apple. We will make it last for 2 meals. 

Thanks for hanging out with me today. I hope you enjoyed reading some things i did.  Until next time…….

10:00pm

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Menu? What's that?

I haven't made a menu up in 3+ years.  We always ate at work......now that we aren't serving food right now, eating out is getting a bit expensive.  I've decided to make a menu and make some homemade meals.  Being the busy person I am I'm looking at slow cooker things that I can make ahead and heat/prep later.

The Liebster Award

I have been nominated for The Liebster Award AND I CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT.

Homemaking Meme

Sandra tagged me in a Homaking Meme.  It was good timing for me when I seen her post this morning because because yesterday was one messed up, stressful day for me.  I don't choose to tag anyone, but if you read this post consider yourself tagged.  Just copy the meme questions from my blog and post it on yours, answer the questions, and tag your friends if you wish.  You don't have to tag anyone, you are more than welcome to just play along, but do let me know so that I can come and read yours too.  Thank you Sandra for tagging me, it made my day. :-D

Aprons - Y/N If Y what does your favorite look like?
Apron?  What's that?  No I hardly ever wear one. 

Baking - Favorite thing to bake?
I like to make cookies.  Chocolate Chip and Sugar Cookies.  Sometimes Banana Bread too.  Usually it's Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Clothesline - Y/N
YES! YES! YES!  I love, love, love my clothesline, even though I don't get to use it.  I used to use it all the time, like every day I did laundry that it didn't rain, and when it was too cold or raining I used a line inside.  When we lived in the apartment hubby got me a big drying rack and that's what we used.  Oh how I missed the outdoors smell.  LOL!  Now we are back at the house, but we work so much it's just easier to toss the clothes in the dryer before I go to bed.  *sigh*  Maybe some day......

Donuts - Have you ever made them?
Only if deep frying refrigerator biscuits and putting cinnamon sugar or powder sugar on them counts.   Yes I make holes in them.  LOL!  I guess when I worked at Hardees.....we used to take the cinnamon & raisin biscuits, make a hole in the middle and deep fry those and put the glaze on them.  I worked the all night shift on the weekends and we would make them and give them to the cops that came through the drive-thru in the wee morning hours.  Brownie points  ;-)

Everyday - One homemaking thing you do everyday?
Feed and water the cats.

Freezer - Do you have a separate deep freeze?
I used to back when the boys were little.  Now I don't.  We hardly eat at home anymore.  Maybe some day I can have a smaller one.  Don't want/need a big one like I had before.

Garbage Disposal - Y/N
No, and I don't miss the one in the apartment either.  I hated that thing, but it was handy since I couldn't just run outside and toss food scraps in the compost bin or in the yard for the birds/bugs.

Handbook - What is your favorite homemaking resource?
um......reading other homemaker's blogs.

Ironing - Love it or hate it?
Iron?  Somewhere I have one, but no ironing board and I haven't ironed much at all if anything in probably 26 years at least.  LOL!

Junk drawer- Y/N - Where is it?
which one?  Ever drawer in the computer desk is a junk drawer, and there are several other drawers around the house that are for nothing but random stuff.  

Kitchen - Color and decorating scheme?
My current kitchen?  It's better to show pictures than to try and describe my kitchen.  I think I have the most awesomest kitchen ever! These are old pictures.  The 4th wall was yellow, but it has since been painted white (by the friend we let live there)

Love - What is your favorite part of homemaking?
Not sure.  I guess the feeling or having a clean house and clean, folded, put away laundry, and a made bed to crawl into.  This doesn't happen very often, but when it does it is a feeling of a HUGE accomplishment.

Mop - Y/N
No.  The only floor I have to mop is the bathroom, and it's small enough I just use the cleaning wet wipes and my foot to go over the floor.  

Nylons - Wash by hand or in washing machine?
Tights and (it think they are called) trouser socks in the winter and they go in the wash with everything else.

Oven - Do you use the window to check on things or do you open the door?
It depends on the stove.  The one I have now doesn't have a window or light so I have to open the door and depend on the not so bright kitchen and my nose.  If I had a light and window, then yes for most things just peeking in is ok.  Sometimes I cook by smell though.

Pizza - What do you put on yours?
Depends on what we are in the mood for.  We ALWAYS  have to have a cheese.  Then whatever sounds good.  We make chicken club pizza often (chicken, onion, tomato, ranch) but the best one (which is expensive to make) was hubby's french dip pizza that he created for Christmas last year.

Quiet - What do you do during the day when you get a quiet moment?
Depends on where I am and what resources I have available.  Usually the only quiet time I have is when I'm sleeping though.  LOL!

Recipe Card Box - Y/N
Not a box, but a 3-ring binder with a bunch of loose papers and some actually put in, and a couple favorite recipe books with my personal notes and modifications written in.  

Style of house
Well, I like simple, old fashioned vintage look, but mine is just a mix of random stuff, nothing like I would *like* it to look like.

Tablecloth and napkins - Y/N
 No and No

Under the kitchen sink - Organized or toxic wasteland?
More like a toxic wasteland. I had it set up to put the litter box under there, but I've since changed boxes and this one is too tall to fit under the sink.  SO....the door is still off and I now keep the extra box(es) of litter and the scoop under there

Vacuum -  How many times per week? 
Depends on how much gets tracked in.  Maybe once a week if I'm lucky.

Wash - How many loads per week?
Minimum of 2.  Load of clothes and a loaf of towels.

X's - Do you make a daily to do list and check it off as you do things? 
Mentally yes. Every now and then I make a list.

Yard - Y/N - Who does what?
Yes we have a yard!  :-)  Hubby currently mows the yard.  I take pictures of the flowers.

Zzz's - What is the last homemaking task you do for the day before you go to bed?
Last thing I usually do is feed and water the cats.

Tuesday April 1, 2014

11:50 pm

Today's weather:  Mother Nature played a cruel April fools joke today.  We went from nice warm weather to cold weather over night.  These cold temps are supposed to be followed by some storms over the rest of the week.  Some may be severe.

Right now I am: Sitting on the bed posting this from my laptop/

Currently Reading:  12 Years a Slave (haven't had time to read lately, *sigh*)

On my menu today:  Today I ate peaches and cream oatmeal with mocha to drink.  Caramel rice cakes and another cup of mocha. an all beef hot dog with ketchup, mustard, relish and onions.  A plate of homemade chicken noodles over mashed potatoes with green beans and a roll, which I wasn't able to finish.  I had water, pepsi and tea to drink today

Something that happened today:  Had a couple of different service providers call wanting us to do jobs.  Both jobs we could do, not problem, but because I told them we required credit card number up front before doing the jobs, both said they would have to call me back.  There is a very good chance neither will call us.  One job was for one we got called for a while back.  Same story different day, they both want to bill us, but we don't operate that way.

On the Radio: listening to the local police scanner.

TV on my Computer: Today I didn't have time to watch anything.

What I found while surfing the net: oh my a ton of tasty recipes that I want to try!

On my to do list tonight:  feed and water the cats, wash the dishes wash 2 loads of laundry and dry 1.  The other one will be put in the dryer tomorrow night.  Schedule some blog posts for the rest of the week.

Looking around the house: The dishes are all washed.  That's the good part.  Still have those boxes and bags that need stored or gone through, and the floors need swept.

From the camera:  My first ever batch of snicker doodles

Sunday March 30, 2014

10:36 pm

Today's weather:  Today was absolutely beautiful! In fact it is still 63° outside!  Too bad I missed enjoying the warm day.

Right now I am: Sitting on the bed posting this from my phone.

Currently Reading:  12 Years a Slave

On my menu today:  Today I ate a bean burrito with sour cream and potato locos for lunch, a Chicago dog and regular sun chips for supper, and pancakes for a later snack/meal. I drank sweet tea and Pepsi. Now I'm munching on ice waiting for it to turn to water.

On the Radio: probably nothing tonight.

TV on my Computer: Today I didn't have time to watch anything.

What I found while surfing the net: didn't do much surfing today.

On my to do list tonight:  this morning before leaving for church I put the clean dishes away. Tonight after feeding the cats and cleaning their boxes (will do that here in s bit) I have no other plans. Maybe watch some YouTube. :-)

Looking around the house: not much different than last night.  LOL!

From the camera:  Pretty flowers in my yard. Oh how I have missed having a yard the past 2 years.

Saturday March 29, 2014

11:36 pm

Today's weather:  Today was a little warmer than yesterday.

Right now I am: Sitting on the bed waiting for my pizza to cool.

Currently Reading:  12 Years a Slave

On my menu today:  Today I ate peaches and cream oatmeal and drank folgers instant mocha for breakfast, a belly buster potato with brisket for lunch, a whole dill  pickle and 2 kinds of rice cakes for snack, and 1/4 of a frozen cheese pizza for supper.  I had water during the day and iced tea tonight.

On the Radio: When I go to bed, the next 4 chapters in my bible reading then fall asleep listening to Praise and Worship on Pandora.

TV on my Computer: Today I didn't have time to watch anything.

What I found while surfing the net: didn't do much surfing today.

On my to do list tonight: Tonight I actually washed the few dishes and put away the clean dishes I said I was going to do last night, washed tonights dishes, cleaned s litter box and fed and water the cats.

Looking around the house: not much different than last night,  Thankfully the cats don't make big messes.  LOL!

From the camera:  is that ET in the cup?

Friday March 28, 2014

11:06pm

Today's weather:  Today was cooler than yesterday.  It tried to rain a few times but never made it past the drip stage.

Right now I am: Sitting in my recliner with my kitty cat, eating supper.

Currently Reading:  12 Years a Slave

On my menu today:  Today I ate peaches and cream oatmeal and drank folgers instant mocha for breakfast, a BLT grilled sandwich for lunch. An all beef hot dog with bun, mustard, onion and relish for supper. I also had 4 baked chicken strips with mashed potatoes and gravy.  (see picture below)  I had water during the day and iced tea tonight.

On the Radio: When I go to bed, the next 3 chapters in my bible reading then fall asleep listening to Praise and Worship on Pandora.

TV on my Computer: Today I watched most of Raising Helen .  Will finish it another day, if not tonight.  This story reminds me of the Aggie's Inheritance Series

What I found while surfing the net: didn't do much surfing today.

On my to do list tonight: Tonight I will wash the few dishes I used for supper, put away the clean dishes, and feed and water the cats. I think there are clothes in the dryer too, I'll put them in a basket and take them to hubby's and my room to fold and put away another night.

Looking around the house: not much different than last night,  Thankfully the cats don't make big messes.  LOL!

From the camera: Tonight's Supper

Thursday March 27, 2014

11:30pm

Today's weather:  Today was warm. We had our first tornado watch of the season issued. We were suppose to get rain but it do anything but mist this morning.

Right now I am: Chatting with a friend on facebook and waiting for the washer to finish do I can put the clothes in the dryer.

Currently Reading: Just started 12 Years a Slave

On my menu today:  Today I ate peaches & cream oatmeal and folgers instant mocha for breakfast, strawberries & cream oatmeal and instant peppermint mocha for lunch. Hubby made a French dip hot dog for me for supper. I had fresh strawberries and a whole dill pickle for snacks. ONE BITE of a peanut butter shake, and water to drink.

On the Radio: the next 2 chapters in my bible reading then fall asleep listening to Praise & Worship on Pandora, as soon as I go to bed.

TV on my Computer: didn't watch anything today

What I found while surfing the net: did some looking for piazza unschooled recipes

On my to do list tonight: tonight I cleaned a litter box (yea for an outside water faucet) and replaced a makeshift one (cardboard box in a trash bag), washed 2 cat bowls, washed all the dirty dishes, vacuumed the kitchen and living room, made the bed, cooked a frozen piazza for hubby and son, folded and put clean laundry away, and washed and dried a load of laundry.

Looking around the house: still have things to unpack and boxes to go to the shed. Other then that its not too bad.

From the camera: nothing today