Short and Sweet - Moving in High Gear

Last week, most of my time was taken up with our monthly park newsletter. After I finished delivering my share on Saturday and Sunday mornings, I was wasted.

Still, I had to jump right into high gear. This will last for about two weeks or so. I need to go through every corner of this cluttered home and pull out everything I know I no longer need. Times change, our needs change as well.

I should revise that one sentence - there’s no way I can hit every inch of this place before the 13th, 14th and 15th. But I’ll make a very good stab at it.

Yesterday, I managed to go through part of my back closet and I found some stuff for the sale. I moved some things around, and the cat found a fresh new “bare spot” in there to snuggle into. Had to leave the doors open until bedtime. I also pureed a peanut butter jar of frozen strawberries just to have on hand to add to stuff.

Today, I tossed two chicken breast pieces from my freezer (defrosted overnight) into the crockpot before bed, along with a lonely can of cream of chicken soup, plus some water. I’m not sure whether I’ll shred it with a fork when it’s done and pack it as shredded chicken in gravy, or whether I’ll pack the chicken in several serving sizes and pack the gravy/soup-ish stuff as “chicken gravy” - the can of soup is not something I normally buy these days - too much flour in it. But I was blessed with it from a food pantry so I’ll thin it out but still have all the flavor.

Managed to also make 5 peanut butter jars of my yogurt smoothie mix today and freeze 4 of those, as well. I changed the cat litter. In the morning I dropped off bags of hand made baby items, from our charity crafters, at the local center for mothers in need, paid my house insurance over the phone, and took out some pork chili and some beef barley soup to defrost for the next few days’ dinners.

Time to stop, and get ready for tomorrow.