Monthly Archives: July 2011
We should have asked for permission
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We got rid of our sofa bed yesterday. Patty is not happy. That’s her on it above. She thought it was hers. She has been pouting ever since it left.
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Fresh from the garden
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We just finished off the cucumbers that I’d made into a creamed cucumber salad the other day. The recipe is simple and the salad is very refreshing.
Creamed Cucumbers
Allow enough time to refrigerate salted cucumbers slices several hours.
2 cucumbers
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup of light cream
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 tablespoon vinegar
1/8 teaspoon of dill weed
Pare cucumbers and slice very thin. Add salt, then refrigerate for several hours. Rinse with cold water, squeezing out the salt. Make dressing by combining the cream, vinegar, sugar, and dill weed. Pour over cucumber slices toss gently and serve.
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Today I plan to do as little as possible…
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I am garage saled out! We do have some items left but the bulk of the stuff is gone. I think I will post the few remaining large items separately on Craig’s list and hope they sell. Their sale would probably cover what we still need to pay for the painting of the house.
I’d paint the place myself if I had the energy to do it. I don’t.
I was practically dancing a jig when the old radio, couch, chair, freezer, and child’s desk sold. To me, everything after that was gravy. Most of the big furniture is gone.
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OMG, I can’t believe we’re doing another one!
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After last weekend I knew we needed to do another sale. Up at six really doesn’t sit well with me but I am doing it none-the-less.
Do me a favor and keep all appendages crossed that we clean out the house today.
(Groan) I hate mornings.
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Gremlins in the house
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We have a problem with gremlins in this house. Things disappear, reappear, and disappear again. Now I am missing a large tablet, several favorite pens, and a big package of double ‘A’ batteries. Therefore, I’m guessing our gremlins needed paper, pens and batteries.
Are our gremlins writers? Did they need batteries for their remote controls?
DH claims he hasn’t seen the missing items. Gavin and Patty don’t have thumbs so they can’t write and I have no idea what the pups would need with batteries.
If there were kids in this house, I’d know where the batteries went. I’ve known kids who were guilty of swiping batteries from parent’s remotes to power their stuff.
Usually, our gremlins return the borrowed items. I only need to be patient.
Do you have gremlins? What things do they borrow?
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A multitude of things
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My desk chair needs replacing. The hydraulics are dying and when I sit in it, it slowly sinks to level too low for my desk. It makes me look like a three-year-old trying to type at Daddy’s desk. Maybe, when we sell the house, I can afford a new chair.
Over the next two days, I need to make some posters and flyers for our last-ditch effort sale of the MIL’s stuff. We need the house empty so we can paint. Painters don’t charge as much if they don’t have to paint around furniture. Big surprise yesterday, one of neighbor’s came over to the house while G and I were there and bought $51.00 worth of stuff! Yay, more money for the paint the house fund!
We enjoyed a lovely PA Dutch creamy cucumber salad made from the cucumbers I picked a few days ago. They were delicious.
Things have cooled down here, a wonderful relief from the heat and humidity of the last few days. I opened the windows last night and turned off the AC.
I hope you all have a lovely day today.
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I do know where this day went
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I typed the letter to the insurance company and had DH sign it. Then I made copies of the policies (again) and the claim form he’d filled out and mailed ages ago. Tossed everything into an envelope and mailed it.
I took the dogs out, ran to the grocery store, came home and worked on the pond, watered the plants, took the dogs out, and fed them. After that I cooked our dinner, we ate, I washed the dishes, took the dogs out, and sliced cucumbers. Then I put the cucumbers in a bowl, salted them, and put them in the fridge to sit for a couple of hours.
I fed the fish. I sat down to catch my breath for a little while. I put eggs on to boil, cut potatoes into cubes and put them on to boil. I cut celery and onions made the dressing for the potato salad and put it over the celery and onions. I put that bowl in the fridge.
Eggs done, cooled them, peeled and chopped them, and added them to the potato salad bowl. Drained the potatoes and added them to the bowl. Then I put the bowl in the fridge.
I washed all the prep dishes.
I sat down at the computer and began to type this….
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Life insurance, the never-ending story
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Back in March, when the MIL died we sent three policies into her life insurance company. For five months, we’ve sent copies and copies, and more copies in. So has the funeral home. We kept getting excuses but no results.
Yesterday we got a call from them saying they were cutting two checks for two policies. Wait a minute guys, there are three of them. Oh, yeah they can’t find the third one on their database. Um, gee whiz, she never cashed it in. It is paid in full, why don’t you have it in your records? Um…they don’t know.
All three policies won’t cover funeral expenses and now they tell us they can’t find the third. ARRRRGH! DH feels like Charlie Brown and wants to bang his head against a wall.
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Worn out
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We had another disappointing day. G and I arrived very early and had no early birds this time—wouldn’t you just know it!
I don’t normally do mornings but for DH I did get up early two days in a row for this. It was bad enough to drag myself out of bed after only two or three hours of sleep on Saturday but on Sunday, I got up an hour earlier. Six freaking a.m. I only do six freaking a.m. when I go to conferences!
We will probably do at least one more day of this next weekend. There goes another day of my life I’ll never get back.
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Disappointing day
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We sold many small items in the morning but the afternoon was a complete flop. I was seriously hoping to sell many of the large items but no such luck.
By the time five o’clock rolled around I was beyond exhausted. I’m not a morning person. I was up by seven after maybe three hours sleep and we arrived at the house a little before eight-thirty. I was barely out of the car when three men hopped out of a vehicle and practically raced me to the door. What part about ‘starts at nine’ do people not understand? They didn’t buy much.
Bed early for me. (Yes, one a.m. for me is early.) Then we’re off again. This time we plan to be at the house by seven thirty. Maybe we’ll catch a few of those early birds we missed yesterday.
I played with the camera today
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An odd weather day
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It rained all around us yesterday but not a single raindrop fell in our neighborhood. I had to water the vegetables.
I harvested six large cucumbers and a jalepeno pepper. There’s another variety of hot pepper out there that has one almost ready to pick. I wish the tomatoes were ready, but they’ll be a while yet.
Two of the five eggplants have blossoms. I look forward to them since this time I bought different several varieties.
I hope you all have a good day!
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