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Picking up Friday

Last night, wife made a pot pie type dish in the slow cooker with gnocchi added at the end. Very tasty.

CPAP Machine is dying, good sleep is not happening. Replacement device in the supplier pipeline

Hallway baseboard painted. Need to install a new bracket for the handrail. Everything taped up for the final bit of painting. Oh yeah still need to deal with those black walnuts

The heat kicked on this morning.

And it was very good. Roast was fall apart tender

The roast and veggies in the crock pot smell sooooooo good

Five hours and home. Mentally exhausting

I know, I know. We agree if it's something I alone eat, she won't fuss at the date. It's not like we are in her home state with oppressive heat ruining everything

Roast and veggies in the crock pot

Just finished reorganization of the chest freezer. Minor checklist item completed

Same here

A local restaurant does eggplant fries. I tried my own using parm and nutritional yeast and deep fried, it was close.

I forget, have you done the fathead crusts? There are new recipes that are still low carb and not as "eggy" tasting. I have yet to try the minced chicken based crusts, but supposedly they are really good

I miss GOOD Chinese food locally.

We've been juggling the household grocery stuff for a few months to pay for some unplanned expenses and to draw down the older items in the larder and not buy extra supplies (wife is a huge stickler on expiration dates, me, not so much). Going to be an expensive few weeks. The 6 month coffee...

Oh man, wishing the best

Interesting turn of events. Over a year ago, the old Presto 12 quart wouldn't maintain a seal for pressure. It was out of warranty. We called support and nothing that was tried worked. The new 17 quart model arrived yesterday. The wife, I don't remember why, called support about the old...

Been quiet on the overall checklist front. Lots of little things, crazy busy at work, the wedding trip to TN, not sleeping well (new sleep study scheduled), all just sucked my energy away. Another friend doing the retirement thing, early 60s. Things I could do with 50 more hours of free time...

Whelp, we are purchasing a new electric canner. The one we have doesn't seal properly, after buying replacement parts and trying a bunch of different things, no dice. New one en route. Will provide a review in a few weeks. The wife is having the cold weather paranoia and wants to do small...