NOT AGAIN??!!!

Man, I can not believe I've done another 30 days with out blogging. There's probably no one reading it anymore! But if there is, here's a day in my life courtesy of the stacks on my counter. This was the Wednesday before Tday. Which by the way, we had a lovely Thanksgiving Day.

So I'm starting from left to right and going around the kitchen. This is right after we'd unloaded the car.

On the left we have the silver bowl, from having collected eggs the night before. Somehow my counter has this magical force field that keeps items on it unmovable. It is resting on a package of envelopes, purchased to mail the Thanksgiving Cards that the boys made for their Grandparents. They got mailed the day before. The weird blue square is a video game, not sure why it landed there, but again that force field has come into force.

I'm sure you recognize the Kleenex box and flashlight, that is their home, along with the wooden bowl, which holds who knows what at any given time! Between the flashlight and Kleenex is a CO2 monitor, that is supposed to be hung up in the house, but has fallen victim to that dang force field!

The paper bag is Amanda's lunch, well it was her lunch, and she forgot it. Then for some reason, she took her sandwich out, but left the bag!!! The acorn squash is from our garden and for dinner the next day. The wicker things are paper plate holders and I can not remember why they were out, but obviously the poor things are victims to the FF.

The cans and cheese are from unloading the car. The jars on the back wall also live their, along with the toaster. I really can't tell you why the glasses or scissors are there, but I'm telling ya, the Force is strong in this counter!

Moving on we have a cool whip container, also from having just shopped and two bottles of sparkling cider. The bag holds food for the two dogs we're dog sitting for the holiday weekend.

Again we have another victim of the FF, an OJ can, poor lost soul. Then we have homemade bread, made by Brent!! NOT ME!! He took Monday off and thoughtfully made up a batch of bread, as we were low and he knew I wasn't going to get to it anytime soon. It's home is in the iron basket behind it, but given the FF in action, this is pretty dang close!!

We have a medicine bottle behind the bread that is ANOTHER victim of the FF. It's owner was trying to figure out dosing as the pharmacy thoughtfully gave us a mg dropper with ml directions and it took our resident chemist, Brent to figure out an accurate dose. That only took three days!

The package in the iron basket is a package of yogurt covered pretzels that I ate for lunch that day, as I got behind and didn't get lunch. I think the kids made me a sandwich, but then someone ate it, thinking I'd eaten or didn't want it......
Then we have an XS can, that is a decaff energy drink, that's what kept me going while I unloaded the car. The Wal-mart bag is more dog food/meds for the visiting dogs. The other bag is groceries from the car. The crock pot is sitting in it's corner home.

We have a cookie sheet with scissors on it because I went down to put something in the freezer and discovered the door had not been closed completely and the top door shelves were defrosted. The veggies sat on the counter for two days, before I acknowledged I wasn't going to get to them and Collin took them out on the cookie sheet and cut them open, that morning. The real miracle here is that the cookie sheet AND scissors made it back out of the chicken house! It has it's own peculiar FF.

We have misc. dishes that hadn't been washed yet that evening. The bottles with weird caps are rabbit water bottles that get to come visit every day to thaw out while their counterparts are out in the rabbit cages, slowly freezing in preparation for their indoor visit.

The wire basket is sitting there because Collin uses it to put his eggs into while he's getting ready to clean them. He was in the act of cleaning them while I was taking the pictures. The giant blue bottle in the back is a gallon container of commercial dish soap. I'm tired of replacing bottles all the time. We wash dishes three times a day and it uses up those regular bottles fast.
Here we have the dishes that did get washed, although if I was to really think about it, they're probably victims also, as they were probably washed the day before! The stack of pizza's in the front are for dinner, as I'd been gone for three days straight at this point and needed a quick dinner! Then on the stove, we have eggs cooking.....no wait that's not right.....oh yeah they're DRYING on the stove, of course.
And finally we have the turkey I bought for a great deal. He just hadn't made it into the fridge yet. Behind him we have a butternut squash, whom I'm sad to say is another victim, he's been there a couple of weeks. Under them is my shopping list, that of course didn't make it into town with me......
So now you know that this week I was so busy, Brent had to make bread, and that I was gone every day until Tday.

I was in town to shop and to pick up dogs, which is really simplifying, because while in town I went to the dentist for Collin, to Fleet Farm for rubber boots for Collin and water heaters for the chickens, to two grocery stores for food and to my friend's house to pick up the dogs. I was running behind because that morning we were at the Dr.'s office for Lee to get a few warts frozen and a 1/2 hr appt. turned into 1 1/2 hrs, because the office had an emergency come in right after we got into the room and so we sat in there for an hour while they dealt with that.

So, yes life's been a little over the top busy, but now it should settle down again. Earlier in the month I focused on staying home every single morning and doing bookwork with Than every single morning, as he's moved onto actual formal book work and we weren't getting it done, due to appts and such going on. So I've been focused on not scheduling anything for before 12pm and that's working great.

I've also finally gotten the large parts of the house straightened out and organized, so that streamlines much and after I tweak three closets, I'll be golden.

We've mostly gotten the outside animals lined out for the winter too. The horses still need stalls, but they do have a very large area to come into the barn and get out of the weather, so we may give up on individual stalls and just leave it that way this year.

So maybe you'll see me more than once, this coming month!!