Sunday Marathon: The Dishes Are All Done Edition.

[hippywife]

What a day! I even surprised myself!

I've been awake since 3:50 a.m. and I got started around 9:30 a.m. after reading quite a bit of the book I have currently checked out of the library.

Thankfully neither of us was much in the mood for a heavy breakfast so we just had cereal with strawberries and toast. Didn't want to weigh myself down for the day that I knew was ahead of me.

First, I canned the tomatoes. Only 3 and a half pints because that's how many tomatoes were ready and had to be taken care of today. Bill went out and brought in another basket full just after I washed that batch of dishes. They will have to wait.

Next, I made a batch of yogurt.

Third, I made a salmon salad and pasta salad for lunches this week.

Thank goodness there was leftover pizza for Bill to have for lunch, so I didn't have to break my pace.

Next, I made another batch of the vodka pie dough and got it in the fridge.

Cooked a small pumpkin from our garden for later use.

Then it was 4 dozen peanut butter cookies. I ate a couple of cookies in lieu of lunch.

Stopped to roast some chicken wings and make homemade Buffalo wings and got Bill fed dinner. I didn't want to break my rhythm, so I plodded on ahead.

Made batter for pumpkin cranberry muffins. (Yeah, I know it's still summer. LOL) Ended up with 24 muffins and 2 mini loaves.

There is now a fresh peach cobbler in the oven. Used the pie dough I made earlier. I just don't like biscuit topping on a cobbler.

Once it was in the oven, which was 30 minutes ago, I sat down and just finished my dinner.

I can't tell you how many times I washed dishes today. I totally lost count. And I managed to post quite a bit on DU since I'm hosting this month's photo contest. I did get a little mixed up on the submission count while trying to keep track, but kind folks over there helped me out. Last I looked there were three more slots left to fill.

The kitchen is clean and it isn't even dark yet. I really need a shower.

[madmax]

1. I want whatever

drugs you take!!! Where do you get all this energy? :hi:

[hippywife]

2. I think most of it was adrenaline.

But I do take pain meds every day. I couldn't function like this without them.

:hi:

[The empressof all]

3. Jeeze....Sometimes I wonder about You All

Not just you specifically HW but all the cooks here who seem to always be in the kitchen whipping up all kinds of stuff. Are you all just blessed with freakish metabolisms that allow you to eat all these homemade baked goods and other delights.

Even when I had a kid at home I never had enough mouths to feed to get rid of all the stuff I see you all make. Now that it's just SO and me- we go through a loaf of bread about once a month. But then again I don't touch the stuff anymore.

I know I'm on the weight loss food plan and probably just feeling bitter but Damn I wish I could have a household that I could cook so much for and not weigh a brazillion pounds.


:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[hippywife]

4. Well, truth be told

I'm not a svelte little thing and haven't been since I was about 10. I guess that means I still have my girlish figure. :rofl:

I don't eat as much of this stuff as my hubs does. I pack his breakfast in with his lunch everyday. He eats the yogurt while he's here and then eats a couple of muffins or whatever I've baked for him when he gets to work. I pack lunches for both of us every morning.

The cobbler is because he must have dessert in the evenings. He still has a little homemade vanilla ice cream to go with it.

He carries a little bit of a belly, but not much of one and he does a lot of work outside on the weekends.

I used to paint and draw. I no longer have the room anymore, so my kitchen is my studio and this is my creative outlet.

:hug:

[madmax]

5. I feel your pain

:rofl: Talk about feeling inadequate.

[grasswire]

6. I am so glad to see you with all that energy, HW!

Wow! What a gal.

I have been fighting eBay all day to try to sell some stuff. After this last move I learned that I must start selling more. Gah! Too much stuff.

So we just had big fat burgers and a pasta salad. The oven in this little over-garage apartment isn't big enough for my cookie sheets, I learned! I baked a cake in it last night to test it out because I had some worries that it wasn't up to temp, but the cake turned out fine. Good news, because there's a family birthday next week.

My place is just a mile away from the retirement center where my mother's two elderly sisters live, and I hope to walk over there with some lovin' from the oven one of these days. Cranberry muffins sound like just the thing.

I didn't work half as hard as you did, but my dishes are still in the sink. :-(

[hippywife]

7. I thought of you yesterday

while I was working away and wondered how you were faring! When I moved here with Bill after we got married, all we had for about the first ten years was a small apartment sized stove. It was a challenge! But I did manage to cook even Thanksgiving dinners in it, in stages, of course. LOL

I bet your aunts would love the visit and the muffins. How wonderful to be so close to them.

How is everything else going? I really hope this turns into such a wonderful place for the two of you after a little adjustment. :hug:

[grasswire]

8. thanks for asking

It feels pretty isolated, actually, out here in the semi-burbs. In a city neighborhood, everything is accessible so easily. I fear this is not so good for Jennifer, as she is used to her visits to friendly shopkeepers and favorite clerks etc. She was able to walk by herself several blocks to shop or buy a soda, etc. This transition has been extremely hard for her. I haven't kept a car for about ten years as we sure didn't need one in the city neighborhood. That may have to change, although I really don't want to do that again.

And things are just different. More conservative people. Shopping is designed for people who drive -- everything is far apart and there's a lot of asphalt.

It works better for me than it does for Jennifer. I don't think it can work long-term for that reason.

But we'll see. We'll see. :-)

[hippywife]

9. Sorry it's so difficult for Jennifer.

You, though, are a pretty resilient person, I think and probably can adapt to just about anything. I hope that it grows to be less and less of a challenge for you both. :hug: :hug:

How's the light pollution out there? If it gets nice and dark, take her out at night at gaze at all the stars. It can be enough to make it worth it when the sky is so packed with them.

As far as the conservatives go, I know what you're talking about living here in rural OK. I just think of our place as my little escape and haven from all of that.