Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Such Is Life!
Over the weekend my brother gave us some elderberries to make jelly with. Even though he couldn’t see hubby help me clean them. He started a branch and I finished cleaning it off. I have never even seen elderberries before but I was game to try making the jelly. I ended up with Monday with 52oz. of something I don’t like. Oh well maybe Jay will eat it. If not out it goes!
This morning my daughter-in-law Deb, grandson Dakota, and I picked raspberries and this afternoon I canned jam. 32 1/2 cups of it by around 7:30 this evening. Now this is good stuff and I won’t have any trouble getting rid of this.
A labor problem put the deck men behind today but in the afternoon two of them showed up to take over for the guy that quit. So we are still not quite done but very soon!
A little story:
Sunday morning expecting SEB and family for a visit I wanted to get up early and mop the kitchen floor. I took the foam mop off the hook and found that the foam had separated from the base of the mop. No problem I’ll just go to the basement and get the replacement head. I brought that up only to find that with the original one the head was held on with plastic fasteners and the new one had screws in the foam head which fastened to the metal part of the mop. I checked the garage for nuts to fit the screws with no luck. I finally decided to use the old string mop that weighs a ton wet. I don’t have one of those buckets with a wringer on it so it was fight with wringing it out. So here I am half way through the floor when I hear clink. What was that? Didn’t see anything so I continued to mop. Clink-clink- now what! I pulled the mop back and the head came off and laid there on the floor as I stared at an empty wooden handle! Well shit is someone trying to tell me something? After some searching I found the screw that goes through the metal head and the wooden handle to hold the string mop on said handle. Now the wing nut that goes on the screw took a little more searching to retrieve it. But it was finally assembled again and the floor was finished before my arms fell off. I got to get a smaller string mob and a fancy mop bucket and throw the two mops I have in the trash!
So there was good things and bad things going on but such is life!
