Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 03:55

Good October 1st Morning Everyone. Boy, where has the time flown? We had another wet, cool day yesterday but when I got up yesterday afternoon the sun did make small attempts at peeking out. Taffy made short work of her outdoor time and was in a "I'll hog the bed while you scratch my belly" mood. Darla Kitty was even in a cuddle mood and she's not one for that. I was going to make soup for dinner but instead tossed some spuds, ham, milk, butter, a bit of shredded cheddar and seasoned with garlic all in the crock pot. When I got up I had a nice steaming bowl of spuds and ham - ok, it was suppose to be scalloped spuds and ham but I put too much milk in and ended up with a delicious soupy mixture LOL.

I got a phone call from a good friend from church. She said someone asked her if I could vacuum and dust the Nursery at Church. We got to talking and neither of us think that folks realize the volume of activities and people that come and go thru the week. I don't think there is a day or evening that something is going on. Makes it hard to keep up sometimes. Anyway, I told her my idea about keeping a planner with weekly calanders and posting my full time job hours along with what plans I have for cleaning church that week. We're meeting Monday afternoon and doing a walk thru of the church and making a "plan" and then planning the schedule. This way I can communicate with Pastor and Jill and anyone else who "needs to know" the how, when and why's to the cleaning schedule. Also, they in turn can write in activities and events not posted on the church calander that is sent with the News Letter. It's worth a try. I'm really excited to see how this all pans out. I really think it's a grand idea and Jill is such an organized person that she'll have a lot of great ideas.

Let's see, a couple more boxes were unpacked as well. Slowly but surely things are getting put away and organized. There is still a lot to go to the storage unit - things that are seasonal or can't be used at this time (such as oven size pots/pans). Using the toaster oven, grill, small electric burner and crock pot for cooking and baking is working so far. When I need to do large scale baking I can either go to my folks and use one of their ovens or use the church ovens (there's two there as well  )  It'll be so nice when it's all done and one can come in and relax instead of looking at boxes and messes.

Laundry was tackled as well. It's amazing how quick it can be done when there's only one person to clean for - although, on the other side of the coin, it's amazing how much laundry one person can create!! LOL!!  I don't have the clothes line put up outside - the weather hasn't been good for hanging clothes outside anyway - but I do have some rope and hooks so will put up a set of lines in the basement. That should help keep costs down. Making my own laundry soap is a huge plus too. I have to sheepishly admit that the last batch I made I added a bit too much water and it turned out quite thin but it still works just as good so this batch will go even further as I had more of it. Hmmmmmmm.

Well, I'd better go get my morning chores done. I'm off tonite so will have to plan to come back on Thursday evening if there's time. (I work my dreaded 3pm-11pm shift). God Bless and have a great day everyone!

Michele