SHEs Organized

(((RR))) You definitely have your hands full with those two important things happening at same time. Is that a common occurrence in the houses in your area?
We have home foundations concrete crack because of heavy clay soil and sound waves from artillery firing. Sometimes the vibration from artillery shells will knock things off the walls. There are companies here that dig under the concrete foundation and use jacks to raise them, so the cracks come back together.

I have moved all the tomato-based products on the pantry shelves a couple of times. I am trying to group them so everything with the same first ingredient is together. There is a high probability that I am over thinking this!
This is what happens when my brain doesn't need to spend time thinking about the next homeschool assignments. I have time to ponder pantry organization.

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Well the fellow that does our foundation work discovered that our wall is leaking way beyond our kitchen into sweetie‘s office so now he’s going to have to dig a bigger or longer ditch. He told us that he would be able to do the work if we have to tear down our kitchen. I’m glad to hear that because I really like this man so we’ll see where we go. I have to wait for him to finish the ditch and then the leak people come back and look at it and talk to my insurance company before I do anything. in the meantime, our wall fellow is going to write up an estimate on what it would cost to do our kitchen if we have to tear it apart, so when the mediator guy comes, we can hand him an estimation of what it will cost us since the wall guys already working was already gonna work on our kitchen anyway.

Wow, so very sorry, RR. I hope it can all be remediated and you get your kitchen back the way you want it. Sounds like a mess, too!

This has not been a stellar day. I lollygagged too long this a.m. and didn't do things that I needed to do (like take meds?) before I left for the lunch. Got there late, and today feels like the first hot day of the season. High eighties with the sun out and I forgot sunglasses too. Thought this lady knew more than she did about plants at the plant nursery, and it was hot there! She really hadn't planned anything for the "tour" and she was ready to leave by 1 p.m., so I had to cool my heels until time for the workout. And then my tummy was off. Perhaps heat, perhaps the pimento cheese sandwich on white bread with some potato chips and a chocolate chip cookie were too much before a workout? Anyway, I did get through the workout and eventually home. I got into bed for about an hour to cool down and rest a little, and I'm having some watered down Gatorade now. I was drinking water during my workout but it felt like lead on my tummy.

We're supposed to eat out tonight, waiting to hear from dh, He did show me a letter going to clients to let them know he won't be in the office much in June. We'll see how that goes, lol.

I didn't get to dry cleaners today, or wash my car, or go back to the plant nursery after my workout to purchase plants. I didn't want to purchase while there, and then have them in my car in the hot sun while I worked out. So it goes.

LadyM, glad that homeschool is done for the year. What will you do with your time when it ends altogether this time next year?

Waving to everyone else...need to circle back on stuff I should have done this a.m.

What will you do with your time when it ends altogether this time next year?

I have no idea! My DBro frequently tells me that I don't have a clue what "normal" people my age do.

DS16 and friend are fishing at the lake. DD49 came and got DD13 to spend some time with her. Our house is quiet...except for DS16 calling ever hour or so.

We had the wettest April on record and now we are experiencing a crazy number of mosquitos. I am curious why the mosquitos aren't bad in the garden...maybe because of all the birds and damselflies that hang around?

Grouping items in the pantry that have common first ingredient. I put BBQ sauce with the tomato products.....nope.
Tomato is the 3rd ingredient. The first ingredient of BBQ sauce is high fructose corn syrup. Soooo should I put BBQ sauce with sugar?

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LadyM I put mine in alphabetical order and that works for me. The only tomato based product I have right now is pasta sauce which lives beside the pasta. I do have tomatoes from last year's garden in the freezer.

I wonder where Blessedw2 is?

Dh's radishes have started to come up! He's happy. The bunnies that we have seen recently in the back yard have not touched anything yet. Tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchinis are all doing well. No idea how catnip is doing. We ended up having a gorgeous sunset. Dh has been outside for quite a while, which I'm happy about.

You gals are more organized than me I put it with the condiments till I read that ingredient and
had to give it away and now I use A-1.

I've done some stuff outside and happy to say it looks better.
One more bed to do out front then prob. have to start over.
But the can is full and we have weather coming in the form of liquid sunshine.

Mowing is iffy. sigh oh well.
I was going to try to get a play day in tomorrow.

Ooph I am not that organized either. Sometimes I try to straighten it one way but it never stays long.

I don't have an actual pantry. I've always wanted what my DDeparted Grandmother called "a walk in larder", but all the houses I've lived in have been small, modern ones, so no space . But, I do have cupboards! So, one cupboard has a shelf for tinned items, the next shelf is for the pouches of cat food, and the top shelf is for herbs and spices. The next cupboard has jars and bottles, like olive oil, Worcester sauce, mint jelly , marmite and marmalade (I separate the sweet from the savoury!) and the final cupboard has what I suppose would be termed dry goods? Rice, pasta sugar etc. (Flour is in a cupboard under the worktop, as I have a lot of it and it's heavy ) The dried cat food is also in another cupboard under the worktop. Freddie has found this cupboard and learned how to open the door and help himself. Child locks were useless as he just broke them. So, my now retired handyman fitted some strong magnets to the door, to stop Freddie "breaking and entering"!

Speaking of Freddie, my "thumbs up* achievement on Thursday was to get him into his carrier all by myself, to take him to the vet for his health check. And that was also successful, as no one got bitten or attacked. ( My bar for success is very low - so long as every still has all their fingers and no one is bleeding, I'm good!)

I've been out of the loop a few days now. Everything is going okay -- I've just been kinda "bed-rotting" to use the new FB term.
Talked to dmom today and things are "moving," so MAYBE she is making progress. Sigh. I sometimes worry about her being alone, but oh my goodness... I do NOT want to live with her again. I was so exhausted after spending Monday at the ER and Monday night sleeping (?) at her house.
I talked to dh's cousin last night, and she said she had heard that it takes two nights to make up for one night of lost sleep. I guess I took that as permission to do NOTHING at all today. However, yesterday, I did run some errands (paid electric bill and went to grocery store) and I dusted the main area of the house and cleaned bathrooms -- just the WHB minimum, nothing major. I also did my allergy shots, which I had forgotten on Sunday.

Tomorrow is dgs' Awards Day so I will have to get up early -- it's at 10:00 a.m. DGD will probably spend the night with me tomorrow night.
Also learned tonight that DGS has at least one more baseball weekend. His coach picked him for All-Stars, but said we would not compete past the district level. The coach knows we don't need to be travelling all over the state, competing with probably the top 25 teams in the state, even if we do win district. (At least, that's what he told DS. He doesn't even want to buy new uniforms -- he got 11 players from dgs' team, and only one from the other team in our town. I know that doesn't sound quite fair, but DGS said he wanted to play again so we're just following along. The best player on the other team reportedly did not want to play the All-star tournament, so the other coach's son is the only one from that team who made it.)

I need to go back and read more about the autism y'all were talking about the other day.
But for today (well, yesterday now) thumbs up for dgs... for my mother feeling a wee bit better...
thumbs down for myself wasting today like I did.

I love butterflies too, Nancy. I just hung some from Cracker Jack's on my jewelry hangers. (I use one of those accordion-style hat racks to hang my necklaces. The butterflies had been put away in a box -- which I opened as I was looking for those dratted poetry folders, which are still missing, BTW). The butterflies are paper, but three-dimensional, much better than the little stickers that CJ call a "prize" these days. These are from the early-mid 70s, when my neighbor, OG, and I were eating CJ's and he gave us his prize. We each got butterflies and I took them all. I don't know now which one was his, but they hung from the rack of my canopy bed for a long while, and now they are on my jewelry rack.

I may get DGD to "help" me make spaghetti tomorrow night, Cathy, and maybe chocolate chip cookies too! We're supposed to have storms tomorrow night also. She may want to stay with her mommy, but I doubt it.
(I have the spaghetti ingredients and the cookie dough in the refrigerator too, Bama! I need to use it up!)

LadyM -- oh my goodness! DS is a senior now??? Oh my how time flies!
And that is awful that ds' boss ended up in the hospital! What a way to start a vacation!

And now Rose is looking at possible surgery... (((HUGS))) And it's not like you don't have a lot to deal with already. (((BIG HUGS)))

Waving to Mystery, Bama, Lauralind, and KittyKat!

I'm not very organized in the kitchen either -- of course, most of you know it is a really rare event for me to cook. DH and I ate out a LOT, and I definitely do now that it's just me. My spices are all on a little lazy susan in one cabinet beside the stove. I don't have a pantry either, but I do have a lot of cabinets.

So -- just wanted to check in and let y'all know I was still among the living, LOL. Hope you all have a great weekend!