Working on my to do list

Hello everyone 

I can’t say I’m going real fast but I have checked off a few things on that to do list.

My biggest job was deep cleaning the fridge.  

When there were 7 of us living here,  it was like a game of Jenga fitting all the groceries, leftovers, lunch things, etc in to this fridge.  

It seemed like it was always full to capacity. 

So yesterday, I took everything out shelf by shelf.  I also took out all the shelves and drawers and door cubbies. 

Everything got washed in the sink with Dawn Powerwash and and a scrub brush.  

I’m a big fan of the Dawn.  It really cleans off stuff with no effort. 

Before

After 

Besides cleaning,  I also refilled the tea dispenser, peeled a bag of tiny oranges, 

and brought more eggs and a bag of big oranges from the shop fridge into this fridge. 

I found multiple types of cheese that need to be used soon so we will be having pizza, tacos and salad with grated cheese on top this week.  

There are also 2 containers of sour cream so I should use some of it in something baked soon.  

I only cleaned the fridge side.  The freezer side still needs cleaned but I don’t think it will be a very big job. 

❤️ Rhonda 

2nd to do list of 2023

Good morning homemakers 

One thing on last weeks list that did not get done was a bath for our dog, Ducky. 

So, that was done first thing and now he is pouting and looking out the window.

Here is my to do list, what I hope to accomplish this week anyway, but as always, we will see. 

Hope you all have a wonderful week

❤️ Rhonda 

First week of January doings

Hello everyone. I hope y’all have had a good week. I have had a very busy week with that long to do list. I wasn’t expecting to get as much done as I did but I feel better now that it’s mostly done.  

Above is what the first spare bedroom looks like, it’s what we call the kids room. Ducky likes it now that I have the curtains open where he can look outside whenever he wants.

When two of our grandsons were living in this room, it mostly looked like this below picture🥴

Besides house work, I made two kinds of stock. I cooked the hambone left from New Year’s Day. I’ve never made ham broth but my son said he did and they liked it. The big crockpot has beef soup bones that we got from our daughter’s family when they bought a butchered cow.

I let the broth chill overnight in the fridge. 

When I checked on it this morning, I was pleased to see that the broth from the beef was like gelatin almost. Anyway I ended up with 3 quarts of beef stock and about a quart and a half of ham stock. It’s all in the freezer waiting to be cooked into something delicious.

This is last weeks to do list. I didn’t get much done in the master bedroom or bath this week but that can happen this coming week

In our dining room, is an accumulating pile of stuff that needs to leave the house, some of it is from our daughters family and some is from our home. So I will go through that this week, and list some of it on the Stillwater buy nothing Facebook list and some of it may go to Goodwill and some of it may go to the trash, we will see.

There is a lot to do at daughter‘s new home. Lots of boxes to unpack so it’s not ready for pictures just yet. But the kitchen is the first room they set up and it is a big beautiful kitchen. That island is huge! And you can’t tell it from the picture but it has three or four stacks of drawers on both sides so there is so much storage. And behind the stove is a walk-in pantry. The floors look wood but those are ceramic tile that look like wood.

That opening was originally supposed to be bricked but there is a brick shortage so the builder suggested wood as an alternate and I think it looks so nice! 

They were able to get just enough brick for the exterior after a wait, but to get enough brick for the interior was going to take much much longer.  

It’s a beautiful new kitchen, isn’t it? ❤️🏡❤️ 

I’ll be back tomorrow with a new to do list. 

❤️Rhonda 

First to do list for 2023

Good morning 

This is a pretty long list and it won’t all get done this week but it does all need done so at least I have a plan 

I’ve got plenty to keep me busy

Talk to you all soon

❤️Rhonda 

First day of 2023

Hello everyone 

I hope you all have had a nice first day of the year.  

We had our traditional black eyed peas, cabbage, rice, cornbread and a smoked spiral ham.  We don’t eat it because we are superstitious but because it is just a fun tradition.  And it tastes good! 

Our son in law really enjoyed it and asked why we only eat it once a year.  We eat all the components during the year but I guess we only eat the whole traditional menu on New Year’s Day,  

Thank you all for the complements and suggestions about our front door.  I’ll let you know as we order, etc.  The windows will all be custom made so I don’t think it will be a very fast project. 

This prayer is in my 2023 planner and I really like it.

And a good blogging development for me is, after a year or so of not being able to,  I can finally comment as my self on my own blog and on other blogs.  

That reply option has been missing and it’s been hard to talk back to you all and just took the fun out of blogging

I don’t know exactly what fixed it but I did adjust some setting on my iPad- even though I’d done similar things multiple times before.  

Who knows?  I’m just grateful it is fixed.  

I don’t know what 2023 holds.  I do plan to get my home put back to pretty much how it was before except even more decluttered.  

And I plan to blog often

❤️Rhonda