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.
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.
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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~
---The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937
4 comments:
Oh you are such an ambitious cook. To me, cook is a four letter word 🤣🤣🤣
I’m sure you will adjust just fine to one fridge…and if not you can still go out and buy one. Prayers for your appliance guy.
Your yeast explosion must have been a HUGE mess. One lesson you will never repeat.
Looking forward to seeing your hooking.
How can it be August 7th already?
Enjoy your cooler temps!
It's a funny thing, isn't it? That need to prepare, "put up" and do the best we can to make sure our families will have enough. As you know, I grew up on a farm...in a family with little means. The only food we ate was what we grew in our garden or in our barn. When I was working long hours and trying to juggle life essentially on my own with my son, I felt guilty that I didn't have the time/energy to plant a big garden and can. Now that I have the time, I don't have the energy...and, perhaps more importantly, the need to. Yet it always seems as though something is "missing." I did can a bunch of tomatoes the year before last so at least I have them for chili and homemade tomato soup...they aren't the same without home-canned tomatoes. My second frig at the lake needs replacing...but, like you, I had a real heart-to-heart with myself. Seriously...why would I even consider replacing it? The only time we used it was when we entertained and that hasn't happened in a long, long, while...nor do I see it happening ever again. Love the soft pink color of your coneflowers. Over the years, I have planted a dozen different varieties/colors but the only ones that survive (and THRIVE) are my deep pink/fuchsia colored ones. Yikes about the yeast. Never really thought about it...but I don't have a garbage disposal here in Nod and rarely bake anymore at the lake.
Well, I am only one, not even two people, and I still have two refrigerators and an upright freezer. I have a lot of flours and grains in the extra fridge and in the big freezer, but I rarely bake anymore, so I try occasionally to give away flour and such, but those cold boxes are still very full. They really come in handy when I have a houseful... and I buy a half a lamb every year so I store those packages in the freezer.
But your musings do make me wonder.... My kitchen refrigerator is not very large, so that's one thing. And I don't ever can anything, but I do freeze figs and plums and greens and asparagus from my garden. So I definitely use the big freezer. In the past, when we had only one (big) refrigerator, if we had extra stuff to keep cold at holidays, we'd just use ice chests for a couple of days.
If you can't resist the canning urge, you could whip up a few jars of something just to give to your good friends <3
We for the first time have a second frig and it is just husband and I.
I find it very useful right now but we will see how the electric bill goes. I do not plant a huge garden just a few things I freeze a lot of my tomatoes I found out last year It works great for my needs. But my tomatoes are not turning red this year I think the has from the wild fires in Canada are hiding the sun to much.
We have wood for the stove but from our property. Not sure how much longer we will be doing that as we now have a generator and if power goes out we are still good.
I have to stop watching the news it makes you want to hoard food and hunker down.
We had to replace a washer this summer, so it is the year of the appliances.
Cathy
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