Just a few months ago I bought two new loose leaf binders to transfer my ‘want to try’ recipes to binders with more room.  I moved the recipes to the new books and made new colored divider pages placing them in plastic protectors. Well it took the better part of a day but I was pretty proud of myself when I finished the project.  But ever since then every time I pick up one of those darn books the rings open and the pages partially or fully fall out.  I spent more time replacing the pages than finding something to cook.  I was tired of the frustration so consequently this is what my dining room table looked like yesterday. 

The other projects due to be tackled would have to wait.  In the upper right corner of this picture is a pile of clean laundry to be folded and put away.  It didn’t happen until after the table was cleared of paper. In the upper left corner are the balloon twisting books I have to relearn in the next 12 days. They didn’t even get opened!  In the center of this mess are a hole puncher, scissors, scotch tape, a cardboard box, two loose leaf binders, my reading glasses, and a whole bunch of paper. 

The reason for this mess can be explained when viewing this picture.  The black plastic tab on the right side is used to open, close, and lock the rings in the binder.  They don’t work folks—take it from me.  The metal tab on the left side is for the same purpose except it doesn’t need to lock them.  This baby snaps shut and can chew up a finger if you are not careful. 

Now this does not sound like a daunting task, but when I remembered that I transferred this mess in the first place for more room and I was going to put the whole thing back in the old binders something was going to have to change.  I started with removing every thing from the plastic page protectors which I put in the cardboard box for storage.  Next the pages that didn’t have hole punched in them had to be corrected.  I had several odd shaped recipes that needed to be trimmed and mounted on standard size pages with scotch tape,.  Then recipes printed on cardboard had to be scanned onto standard pages also. I removed the colored divider pages from the page protectors,  punched the holes, and put tabs on the sides.  All that remained was refiling the whole shebang between the covers of the working ring binders and putting the title sheets in the front cover and the spine cover(—right name—don’t know).  I’ll bet you that nothing will fall out now by golly! 

On the lighter side.

Those Iris plants just keep going.

The first Peony of several has opened.

Now the bush in South back garden, at the deck steps, has decided to start blooming.  This poor thing was abused badly by me a couple of years back because it looked like part of it was dead.  Thank goodness Mother Nature forgives a fool!

Well Jay is due in from dialysis in the next hour and will be looking for lunch.  I decided on making some biscuits, for salmon salad sandwiches ( got to go get bread later).  Also a lettuce and fruit cocktail salad for a side. So have a happy one—see yah! 

Update: 
I just check the bread box—-I still got bread—-Yeah!!!