purple room vents: BUSY WEEK

Lots going on this week. Both Ange and I got our regular flu shots today. Got my banking done. Super sleepy today. I didn't actually go to bed til four this morning. Dummy! Monte and his friend were out a distance on the road to Bamfield in the pitch dark waiting for the eclipse.

Tomorrow we are making a rat run. Yes, a rat run. The rats at our local pet store are horrendously expensive and there is a lady in Comox who sells them cheaper so we are going up there to buy a bunch. Lucky Smooch! She only eats one every two weeks. Wish I only had to eat every two weeks.

As I have mentioned before, we live right beside, behindish a Quality Foods. The place is too expensive for main shopping, that we get at Walmart curbside, but QF is good for one thing for sure. Every 'cheque day' for disability peeps, and that is half this town it seems, they put on a meat sale that beats all meat sales. They sell meat packages that are between six and nine dollars normally. Turkey chunks, beef stew, beef stir fry strips, pork shoulder steaks, pork schnitzel, fake crab, chicken breasts, hamburger, chicken burger, turkey burger, chicken drumsticks, and a whole lot more I can't remember. And they sell them five packages for twenty five bucks. So guess whose new freezer is full to the top! Then the following Friday they have a five dollar sale throughout everything in the store. Makes up for the higher prices the rest of the time. Actually it was a lot of fun buying a ton of meat! They are a perfect size for Monte.

Now we still have forty pounds of apples. I bought two apple corers and I have a peeler so it shouldn't be too big a job. I made a little pot of applesauce to see if it was sweet enough etc. and how the apple broke down and all. It was delicious and perfect. Another thought I am entertaining is making a four jar batch of apple butter. Gramma used to make it and its the best stuff on hot home made brown Graham flour bread! Well...maybe her strawberry rhubarb jam was best.

Today I bought on Amazon a three tier electric steamer. I have a stove top steamer pot but it just isn't big enough and I steam stuff all the time. So I feel I am going to end up using that steamer more than any other appliance to date. I know I would eat way more veggies if I could steam them. Fish is good that way too.

And one last thing. I mention this here to keep me accountable. My bedroom. There is a four foot high bunch of clothes on the armchair. There's a four foot pile of clothes on the chair chair. There is a four foot pile on the big rubbermaid in the middle of the room. There are clothes on the floor in my big closet. The wardrobe is plumb full of clothes. There are stacks of clothes downstairs on the laundry room table. There is a rubbermaid in the guest room closet full of clothes. I have nowhere to put them permanently. It's like my house threw up clothes all over the corners of this house.

They have to go. When I get back from Vancouver I am going to bring every last piece of clothing I own into the living room and separate thrift store, keep, throw. And I AM going to get rid of three quarters of them. I used to play house all the time as a kid. As an adult I am going to play hoarder...like you see on that awful show.

Now it feels like bedtime but it is only nine. I do not like this time change. I waaaaay prefer spring time time change. You get tired too early and wake up way too early. But now I am going to bounce, and get ready for bed...in two more hours. Jeez!! TTYL

'Not eating meat is a decision. Eating meat is an instinct.' Dennis Leery

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