Today we were getting ready for Dad's visit at the end of the week. I love the fact that he visits, but this requires a lot of extra cleaning as it would with anyone visiting. This shouldn't be how it is, but it is. I've done a lot of needed to do things like clean out the freezer completely! I scrubbed the inside with spic and span and the outside of the fridge. Now I have to do the fridge part and the top. I also cleared off the top of the cabinets getting rid of things that are either considered, bad or useless. I will yard sale what I can so that we can get closer to having a new wood burning stove. We did stop today in the other town and get a quote for an outside wood burning stove...ouch! Nearly 8K dollars. YIKES~! So I'm trying to think of ways to cut this cost down. All in all the tubing alone will cost well over 200. The sad thing is that is might be possible to get financing, but I really don't want to. I don't want to add another payment to the household at 15% it would be close to 200 a month. The thing to happen would be for the business to pick up a bit and then we could afford to buy it outright! The boys wanted to go outside all day, but they destroyed the house so bad it too me forever to get everything cleaned up....and I'm still not done. And on top of all of this....my dryer is broken and it is suppose to storm really crazy tomorrow. I also am going to start going through all the cabinets again, I need to reorganize and prioritize things. We are looking for see through glass containers with lids so that we can solar cook.
We are also looking at moving all the beds to one room, this way during the winter we only have to heat one room at night instead of two. We will still put a solar heater in the other room to see how they do upstairs. We are also going to look into solar water heating as well.
In light of the little girls who drowened (cnn.com story) we are trying to figure out what we are going to do about a pool, if it is even a good idea this year. With less than a month left and the temps not reaching 90, it seems like it would be too cold. I'm not sure quite what we are going to do, although at the rate Sunshine is going, he may not be allowed to get a swimming pool.
On another note, the zuch plants are dead and the squash plants are right behind them along with the lettuce plants (which I got nothing off of). I will miracle grow these areas and put in some compost in there and plant the beans. I will plant spinach where the lettuce is and I will plant the romaine lettuce in the middle, oh and the broccoli, I'll find it a home. Next year I will be buying the potatoe bags for the potatoes. I haven't harvested any yet, they still are green but starting to turn brown. I will more than likely harvest the rest of the corn on Friday. I may be able to plant the beans there and then go from there.
I'm brain dead at this point and my shoulder is killing me. More tomorrow hopefully!
Katy
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