Weekend Productivity

Things we did this weekend:

1. Recaulked bathroom tub

2. Touch up painting in bathroom

3. Visited aunt Paula

4. Trimmed hedges

5. Weeded all front garden areas

6. Weed N Feed all grass in front and back

7. Transplanted the flowers in the front area we are turning to grass to a garden area

8. Cleaned bathroom

9. Put all spring/summer stuff away from the front

10. Put out my pumpkins, mums, indian corn and bale of hay on the front porch (yay for Fall!)

11. Gave myself a pedicure with crimson/rust colored polish

12. Gave myself a natural manicure with a 7 way filer to bring out natural shine, etc.

13. Got a hair cut

14. Made homemade alfredo sauce

What a good, busy, and fun weekend. And I'm sad it's over, but time sure is flyin' these days.

Cleanest Kitchen in PA

After work today Peter and I cleaned our kitchen from top to bottom, including taking all of the shelves and drawers out of the fridge and giving that and the freezer a good scrub down.  I figured since it was empty from the power outage that we should take advantage of the opportunity to clean it.  

Peter went to pick up the food from Jerry's and the coolers we took over the first time were sticky inside for some reason so when he called I said just dump it in the trunk of the car haha.  Luckily 2 folks from church were there to help him.  Here's what the trunk looked like when he got back:

It's kinda hard to see since it was dark out and we took it with his iPhone, but it was a trunk full of frozen foods haha.  He brought them in and I organized them back into our 5ft stand up freezer and then what needed to go upstairs again.  

Our fridge/freezer in the kitchen looks more empty than they used to because the fridge no longer has the half used marinades, etc in it.  And I only put a few things in the freezer for now. 

All in all it was a night of working on getting our kitchen back in order.  We're very glad to have power again and it even feels good to have a completely cleaned and organized kitchen and fridge/freezer.

Thanks a lot, Ike!

Remnants of Hurricane Ike hit the Pittsburgh area on Sunday evening. Winds reaching over 75 mph were even reported! Thanks to Ike our power went out around 9 PM on Sunday night and as of this morning when we left for work, it was still out. Over 36 hours. Luckily we were able to empty our 5 ft stand up freezer into a friend's until our power comes back on. When I thought of losing all of that food, I was clear sick. We would have had a huge neighborhood cookout before I just threw it out. Even though there is only 2 of us, I buy in bulk. Simply because it's cheaper and we have the stand up freezer in the basement (that we purchased for $40 on craigslist) to put it in. We also cleared out some fridge items, but will have lost maybe $25-35 in food that we weren't able to put anywhere. All in all, not bad. Not as bad as Texas that's for sure.

I called my office yesterday morning before leaving home, just to make sure they had power. They did. Until I arrived haha. Literally, a minute after I got to work and set my purse down at my desk, the power went out. And didn't come back on all day haha. We were dispersed to different places to work and I even got to hang out at Peter's office a bit to do some work. At 1:00 I called it a day and Peter and I headed home after stopping for lunch. We both had a wonderful nap and then moved the food. We had to eat dinner out again and grabbed a pizza. When we got home to a dark house, we lit some candles and played cards for a bit before heading to bed. We've really been catching up on sleep the past 2 days haha.

Today we both had power and internet at our offices so we've just been working away now. Wondering if when we return home in a little over an hour if they'll be any power.

We were talking on the way home from dinner last night that even with the misfortune of no power, we are so blessed. Blessed to have a full freezer of food and a place to store it until we have power again and blessed with a home and everything in it. And it's a beautiful fall week to have lost power. We didn't lose it until after the humidity of Sunday went away. So it's been breezy and cool. Could've been in the dead of summer or winter when it's boiling or freezing.