Summer break starts tomorrow for all
Columbus school children.
Woke up this morning to see the aftermath
of the storm last night. Debris is everywhere
so it looks like a day of cleaning up sticks
and such.
We had one kind of large branch come down
out of the tree in the back yard.
It was really close to the garden. I would
have cried if it fell on top of all my
plants. But it didn't thank goodness.
It fell on top of a small table I had out there, knocking
it over.
A couple streets over a huge tree fell across
one of the streets. They have the road closed
off.
We had tornado warnings for NE Franklin county
and Licking county. Sirens could be heard several
times throughout the storm. Lots of lightning!
I hate storms that shoot out lightning bolts
every couple of seconds. Lights would flicker
and street lights would go out.
The greenhouse had a lot of water collected on top.
Garden still looks pretty good except for a few little
sticks and leaf bunches that need cleaned out of there.
Plants are loving all this rain and growing more
and more each day.
My new pepper plants survived that I just planted
yesterday. Some of those can be seen in front
of the mat. I thought I had 8 plants but it turned
out there was 10.
5PM
Been cooking up a storm for both
supper and next week's vacation.
I figure I will save a lot by taking
our own meals with us.
At $15 to $20 a meal to eat out times 3 meals
a day times 3 days starts to add up real quick!!
Had ribs and bbq sauce in the crock
and 2 pots of potatoes boiling on
the stove. I threw eggs in one
pot of potatoes to boil them for
some potato salad. One less step
when I can do two things at once.
Tonight for supper we are having
what I call Rib Buster. Shredded
pork with bbq sauce over mashed potatoes.
It lives up to it's name!
I had some leftover heavy cream in the
fridge and decided to add that to the
mashed potatoes. YUMMY!
The remaining shredded bbq pork will
be used for putting on sandwiches
next week.
Let's see what else have I been doing.
Got chicken cut up and ready
to make chicken salad with. Still need to boil
the pasta shells and stuff them with
chicken salad.
Chopped up and fried a pound of bacon.
Will use half a pound in the potato
salad and half pound in the stuffed
pasta shells. Oh and I wanted to add
that I got some cottage cheese to
mix in with the chicken salad. Thought
that sounded good.
Still need to fry up some scrambled eggs
and start making the breakfast tortilla
roll ups.
Then tomorrow I will make black raspberry
thumbprint cookies with white chocolate
drizzled across the tops.
I thought of one more thing today while
in Kroger that I wanted to make and take
with us, Taco Salad. So all I have to
do there is fry up some sausage
and sauce.
Fridge and freezer are starting to become
full of things. I like to plan and do things
ahead of time instead of last minute!
That way this weekend I can work on packing
things up and getting the truck loaded.
We found another thing to save us money
on this mini vacation. I think we are
going to turn in half our points we have
accumulated at Speedway for a free $50
gas card. And this month if we use our
speedy rewards card we get .05 cents off
per gallon.
I got an email from Speedway stating:
"We have an exclusive fuel discount offer just for you. Save 5 cents per gallon every time you pay for fuel (diesel or gasoline) with cash between June 1st and July 31st, 2010*! "
And even yet another way to have spending
money is we plan to start cutting up
our scrap metal to turn in tomorrow.
Even though we need a break from work and home
we still try to find cheap ways to take
a vacation. I think the most expensive
part will be the hotel. The tourist attractions
are free, gas will be free, we are taking our
own food, so any extra expenses will come
from our scrap metal. Those could be things
like a boat rental, fishing license, bait,
ice and any little treats we find to
do along the way. Vacations don't need
to be extravagant as long as you are spending
quality time with family.
I'm really wound up at the moment with
everything I have to do. So bear with me.
Got kids out of school now and hubby at work
one more day so it's just me trying to do
things at the moment and trying to deal
with kids on top of everything just adds
to it, LOL.
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Today I stopped in a thrift store and
found a table pad with 2 leaf extensions
for $6.96! These things aren't cheap and I've
been looking for something to put on top
of the dining room table to keep it from
getting scratched up.
Here's a used set on Ebay for $200!!
It is velour on the bottom and has a vinyl?
top that can be wiped off.
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The daylilies had their first blooms today!
Can't wait for them all to be in full bloom.
