Thursday in August

I thought I would write a blog today. I hope your August is off to a good start. I think this summer has been one of replacing appliances. Our fridge went out in the garage. Thankfully, it didn't have too much in it. I had already moved most of the food to the upright freezer. All of the years we have been married and had a large family, I have always had two refrigerators. It dawned on me this week. Its only Ron and me. What do we need two? I could use that space in the garage for something else.
 

It sounds so simple on the blog. It took a week for me to finally figure that out. I cook everyday. I fix Ron's lunch for work everyday. I cook from scratch so I have ingredients. Lots of ingredients. I have two pantries and my large upright freezer. So having one fridge really does scare me. No clue why, we won't starve. I decided not to can and preserve or make jam this summer. I feel like a complete slacker. I of course have food I could whip up into a jar if it becomes to hard for me to not do. Its August. My whole life I have spent August in the kitchen, with my water bath canner, my pressure cooker and preparing for the snow, tornadoes and hurricanes. Oh wait, I live in California. Its been 69 each morning and I am freezing to death. I remember one of the last things I would order in October would be a cord of wood. Then I would feel safe. I could withstand even an earthquake. But not this year. 

I do have bricks I could make a rocket stove and cook outside if I had too. But then we have the travel trailer ready to go so I could just make it easy on myself and cook in that. Not canning food in August is harder for me not to do than to do it. Odd isn't it? I guess I like that feeling of putting food on my pantry shelves that I know whats in it and what I have prepared. 

All of this talk about food. But that is what I have done all week. I did order a new refrigerator. From a guy I have bought all of my appliances from for 45 years. He was too sick to deliver it. Which is so terrible for him. I felt so awful that I told him just to cancel it and just take care of himself. That was when I had my moment of why? Why do I need two? I just needed to work through it. 

Its grape season here. I just like looking at grapes on the vine. This is the garden where my daughter is a manager and she gets to work and see lovely things like this every day. When I look at that I see raisins. 

I hope you are having a nice week. I have hooked a tiny bit. Its been a summer of replacing appliances. I really broke my garbage disposal. I had to have that guy come out on Monday. I felt like I was in an episode of I Love Lucy. Lets say it wasn't pretty. Don't ever put old yeast down the drain. It blows up and makes a big mess. I cleaned and cleaned up my mess, then I discovered I hadn't thought about the ceiling. I have to do that at some point. We have ten foot ceilings. It was a big, big mess. 
 

I hope you have a lovely weekend. We have the master bath left to paint. That is going be the job to start in the morning. Then our whole house will have been repainted. I hope to get my dresser painted to match my bedroom set and my hope chest. Then the painting will be finished. Its such a nice feeling. 

Its nice to live here and get finished.

~Kim~

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

---The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937