~INDUSTRIOUS MONDAY ~I tried to find an "m" word that would work....ah well.
Quote of the Day: "Mine, HELP! Mine!" Stacia states, as she puts on several pairs boys' underwear and a bra....she has decided to quit wearing diapers today. THIS is the help she offers with laundry.
Curves....and my wrists hurt.
My goal this week is to get my pantry/freezer ready for the upcoming school year. I should also pay bills, work on Jamin's portfolio, order curriculum, and something else that I can't remember.
I got a group Shop Natural order together and FINALLY sent. We are ordering every two months now, so there was a bit of a learning curve. I still need to figure out how I'm going to divide the shipping cost. I had added 10% to each order but our group order is over $2,500 and we don't need THAT much for shipping. LOL
I pulled out all the 7 gal buckets of grain from the pantry, consolidated, vacuumed, cleaned shelves, and put it all back together. This didn't help my wrists.
We got a call from Tricia inviting us to go to the pool...but I said, "no"! ACK - can you believe it? I said no to fun, so that I could work!!!! I felt bad all day for not going to the pool......but then good about the progress made on our projects. I called Tricia late in the afternoon and she understood. I really couldn't go as I was in the middle of defrosting the beast and had food in the coolers in the heat....
The first place to begin with the freezers was to DEFROST the BEAST and to clean the other two out. Before:
All the food was loaded into coolers....
We made a list of what we have. I organized the upright as best as I could.
We decided to use the fridge/freezer in the garage for frozen smoothie fruit, bread, nuts and such. LOOK what I found in the freezer....can you read the box on the bottom left, Liz? Other than the chocolate, this is our crunchy fridge. 
Jamin baked bread. I now have 6 loaves in the freezer.....and another 4 will be ready to go in by bedtime. There will be 7 loaves of 7 grain and 3 loaves of Italian.....
I froze two flats of strawberries and they are in the freezer of the newly cleaned and organized "crunchy fridge". This fridges holds our milk and produce. LOL
We ate something for dinner. Mike didn't get home until well after 8:00. I'm trying to get Stacia down and waiting for Cy to get home from work.
12 comments:
Glad you had a productive day...you can't play EVERY day, can you?! If only you had a little pool in your OWN yard...LOL
I was pretty productive today as well. Made a couple of zucchini breads, cinnamon/raisin bread and some pizza crust for Erik...OH and cleaned out my fridge (not the freezer, though). Nesting is complete. Now I'm all set to bring baby "E" home...we'll keep you posted.
Oh MAN - I thought you were going to say, "I was productive today too, I had baby E".
Good work, DeEtta!
I'm overscheduled as usual and will not get to this challenge for a while. I'm looking forward to getting a new frost-free freezer one day too. I hate cleaning our old one!
DeEtta,
Good job! You make me tired just reading your blog. However, now that I am feeling better I am inspired to work on...something! LOL
Can you tell me what you do to freeze your bread? How do you wrap it etc.
Off to writing up my list of things to do today.
Dorothy - I believe you and I are the only women in the 21st century who OWN freezers that require defrosting. ::snort:: I think that means we really ARE the decriptitude sisters.
Gilda - I wrap it in plastic warp and then put it in a little "bred bag". You can buy those inexpensively at any grocery store - but I worry they aren't freezer proof for long periods of time - so I tend to double wrap.
This is my plan for my indoor freezer. It will be for fruit, bread, veggies and breakfast foods and my outdoor freezer will store the meat and dinner freezer meals.
Good job on your freezers!
What a productive day! I was looking back at the comments and I must have had a major brain freeze...we do not have a chest freezer, but a monster upright freezer...and it needs to be defrosted.
Brian wants to move it from our dungeon, I mean cellar and put it in the garage, so I'm not putting anything else into it right now.
That took major willpower on your part to say to a pool visit. That is one of my biggest problems...dropping my work to go play...good for you!
Love all that bread, it looks so yummy.
Debbie - if you have a freezer that still has to be defrosted (as opposed to the new frost free ones) then YOU too can join mine and Dorothy's club....hmmm...decriptitude doesn't fit for YOU.....maybe we'll be the
NOpe.. you're not the only two. I have one of those as well. Our freezer is OLD! It was OLD when we bought it 23 years ago at a garage sale. This thing just won't quit working. I'm afraid I'll be stuck with it *FOREVER*! I'll take a picture of our beast tomorrow!
Wowzers. My bread doesn't rise THAT big! Yours did and in the glass pans too. Do you always do yours in glass pans. Do you make slice marks across the top when you roll it to put in the pans? Do you rise in the bosch first and then in the pan later? That is what I have been doing. Rise in the bosch for 50-60 mins and then put in pans to rise in warm microwave for 1 hour. Then bake. Does your bread rise just as well with the Pampered Chef pans or the glass? I know TONS of questions...Sorry.
Beth in GA
My freezer also requires defrosting. But I bought it third hand for $25 so I can't complain. It has lasted very well. My only complaint is that it is hard to close and we have lost food several time due to this.
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