DD has been with me a few days. Always a joy. HG has been MIA here and there. I mostly just miss and worry about the baby when she vanishes. Well I have tried and hopefully she has been learning survival skills and life lessons. I’m sure she will continue to call this place home but she vanishes at the drop of a hat without telling me anything.
DH bought two huge sirloin roasts and cut them up into stew meat. I have a soup started because I had so much cabbage that needed to be cooked (between the two I bought and the 4 the neighbor caught at the Irish parade). I hope I didn’t mess it up by putting the can of spaghetti sauce in the pot. Last time I used the other can, I ruined the spaghetti. But it was the last can. I put in my last Ziplock of last year’s green beans. I have no turnips so I will just use lots of carrots and whatever else I can find. I need room in the freezer for whatever comes up, after all.
Yesterday DD middle child called me. We must’ve stayed on the phone for 2 hours. That’s rare. She lives in an arid climate in Texas and she complained about it being difficult to obtain seafood and said she can’t even find butcher sausage in the grocery stores there. I spoke about DH’s connections and said how, not only can I get various kinds of butcher sausage but if we obtain a deer, pig or large portion of beef that we could buy seasoning packets from the meat department for green onion sausage, Cajun sausage, breakfast sausage etc and the way we keep up on shrimp is when DH’s trawler friend is totally done sitting roadside on his boat, waiting for finish selling his catch, he calls us and depending on the count, he makes us an offer we can’t refuse. Like $1/pound for stewing shrimp. She immediately requested in on the deal if I am willing to peel extra and freeze to send to Texas. But apparently she also plans on freezing an enormous amount of butcher sausage to take with her also. My poor, Cajun baby!! It was good to hear her voice. She must sound so strange over there. SIL jokes that when she gets excited she starts talking Alligator.
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I told oldest DD that she can have my big generator. She said, “Seriously?!?!” I said, “Should I just leave it parked next to my destroyed house to rust away?” I started talking about her brother rents, her sister is in Texas and is married to a man who repairs generators, the next one is living with her (even more reason) and I can run the entire house I’m currently in with just a small generator run by gas. It all started cuz we were talking about her gas powered, tankless water heater which she said is dependent upon some electricity. I hope it happens. Better than it being stolen.
Yeah well my boxwood stove is missing but I did get some game cameras that apparently will send my phone text pictures as someone shows up. I don’t know why I’m scared to set it up. Modern technology scares me somewhat.
Well I best conquer the world. Maybe I will ask about the baby. Have a great day people.
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