From Town to Country: A Wife's Tale

• Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - Still Alive

Posted in Day to Day

Well, my 4 broilers (we called them Dinner) have been granted a pardon from the killing tree for yet another day.  Mike called early this am and asked Rich to help him retrieve some fence posts, they called it a "hot tip" on where there were some fence posts at a good price.  lol  So, my chickens live another day since the henchman was fence posting and getting treated to a Blizzard at the local DQ.

The good news is that Betsy is starting to put some weight on her sore leg.  She is out running and jumping.  I saw Betsy and Ross running after Gunner, which was pretty cute.

I did some cleaning around the trailer after running a few errands in town.  It seems when you are trying to live in 2 places at the same time (or at least for me) I'm always missing something so I can't finish a task.  Today was especially horrible. 

I went to wash a load of laundry only to discover I have no laundry soap at the trailer , so I just used Borax and that seemed to work alright.  Nothing was that terribly dirty just needed freshening.  Oh and then I remembered I don't have a dryer or a clothesline.  UGH!  

I, then, decided to line the shelves in the kitchen with shelf liner only to discover we don't have a scissors in the trailer... ok, on to the next task.  I thought I'd make french bread pizza for lunch only to find I forgot to bring the cheese grater with me from home... so I settled on the frozen pizza instead. 

I did manage to make Italian spaghetti for supper without salt (the shaker was empty) and no parmesan cheese, lol.  I was laughing by this time as it just seemed I was missing something every time I tried to accomplish something.  I can honestly say.. I can't wait until we make the complete move!

I did work in the garden... I planted 9 tomato plants.  Rich helped me plant my plum trees (2), a cherry tree and a gooseberry bush.  I still need to find a place for my rhubarb. 

And that was it.  It was time to go home.  And we did.
Carol

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