Work, work work

Better photo of the upsidedown bird, he's blue

August 25 – Sunday is always the busiest day for us.  We finished our Sunday breakfast then headed out to get a start.  That was the worst my bathhouse has been.  There was so much water puddled from the one shower that it sprays too far back and won’t drain.   I swept and swept!  I also just don’t understand not getting your trash in the can but leaving it on the floor 2 inches from the can.  I had to replace 10 rolls of TP, the most I’ve had to do at one time.  By the time I finally got finished Bill was already out raking.  He starts at 1 and I start at 18, but today 18 was slow leaving so I skipped to 17 and worked my way around to meet Bill. 

 

We got them all done but 18 since they were still slow leaving.  I found .03, a door mat and a dish cloth.  As usual Bill came back with .01.  My hip was killing me from the sweeping and the raking.  It was time to sit with a Lipton Citrus Green Tea and relax a while until lunchtime.

 

After lunch I took 2 loads of laundry and headed up the hill.  I learned that when I’m on gmail I can use my connection to make phone calls!  Kam failed to tell me that.  So I called one of the campgrounds we wanted to book for the trip south.  I also ordered a 40 quart cooler by Igloo that runs on AC/DC from Walmart online.  It will be in on Thursday so that works out perfect.  We can put it in the back seat with all the meat and cheese I will be taking home and we can squeeze in drinks for us.  It will actually be used for food storage on future trips due to the shortage of fridge space we have.

I posted a couple of blogs and I emailed Nancy with our final menu for the campout.  Once we leave here I can call her and that will be much better. She’s going to start calling everyone to get the menu assigned.  It will all come together.

 

When I got back Bill said Fred was by and said there’s going to be a volunteer luncheon tomorrow at noon.  A potluck.  I went through the cupboards to see what I had on hand to make.  I decided on corn soufflé.

 

I got a good fire started in the grill pit and we used the metal grate I found a few days ago abandoned in a site to grill on.  It lies right over the pit so it’s closer to the fire.  We grilled chicken, Italian sausage and thick bologna slices.  I put some carrots in a foil packet first and let those cook some before starting the meats.  The meat was all good but I could have cooked the carrots longer.  Now we have leftovers for a couple of nights.

 

I had asked Bill this morning if he’d drive me out to the main road where I saw an abandoned apple tree so I could see if they were any good.  Now I thought if there were any apples I’d make an apple crisp.  We went out and there were apple.  Not the biggest or nicest, kinda neglected but I picked quite a few.  We tried one at home and they are granny smiths.  Not really good for cooking but I made a crisp for tomorrow with some.

 

Nothing much on TV tonight so I finished my book, “Oinks”.  It was a true story and so funny.