Thanks yall!!
I tried stopping for bread crumbs, couldn't find them in the cheap grocery store near us, so I just gave up and went home because I FINALLY remembered we had ritz crackers in the house. Duh. So into the burgers they went. They turned out really good, too!
I know that we need to cook at home more, the struggle has been the amount of time we are out of the house. Working on Cowboy and Coyote's place has meant that we really haven't been home to eat, or are coming home really late and exhausted. That has been frustrating. We've done a little better this week, the only other frustrating thing is that my grocery budget is pretty much almost maxed out already. SO I'll have to rob peter to pay paul when I get paid in a week. I'll get through it, but it's frustrating and annoying. Need to chat with the boss about that raise again...
The BF has negotiated at work to get off early tomorrow and bring a bobcat to Cowboy and Coyote's so that we can finish the work tomorrow afternoon, and then he'll work Saturday morning for them instead. He drives a good bargain when he has the opportunity to do so. We should be able to knock out that work pretty fast. They get home on Saturday, late, which is a good thing, too. I'll have to check in with them and see if they want me to come down on Sunday to pick up a check for all this work. I'm expecting it to be about 18 hours worth by the time we're done tomorrow.
Yesterday I had a great day hanging with friends. I got another ride in on Storm, which was awesome, and then the farrier was there and we trimmed him. He's really tight in a few places, which made it hard for him to get his leg up for long, but we finally got it done. Now I just have to maintain him, cause I didn't do a good job of that this past time, which is why it took forever, and made it harder on him. I'm going to have to have JS check him while she's here because he's got some things going on. I will have one more lesson before JS is here, which is a good thing so I can talk it over with KN and see what she thinks. Hopefully I'll get at least one more ride in before my next lesson, too. We'll see how that goes.
The bad news is that I was getting things done yesterday morning before I left, and I turned the dryer on to run while I was gone at 7:30 before I left. It was still running at 5:30 when I got home. I'm SO SO SO SO SO thankful it didn't burn the house down. The BF is going to have to check to see if he can find a part for it, the timer thing isn't working. It's old, and the dryer that they got to put in the house because the house didn't have one but they had dryer marked on the contract, so they had to do something. It's like a 1970's dryer. I would love a new one, but if it doesn't cost much to get the thing replaced, then I think we'll just do that for the time being.
I think tomorrow since the BF will be coming down to Cowboy and Coyote's with his truck pretty early I might just stay there after yoga and get some computer work done and use her washer and dryer to get the mountain of laundry done quickly and efficiently. I should be able to finish all of it while I'm there (it'll probably be only 2 loads instead of the 3 or 4 loads it would be in our tiny washer), and I can get some computer stuff done which will be a good thing, too. So that's probably the best plan rather than burning up my gas running back and forth 35 miles round trip.
In other good news, HR is going out of town this weekend, and SR asked me to watch the market at the veggie farm on Saturday afternoon/evening. That is much needed income to cover some things (like the new rasp I had to buy because my old rasp got rusty in my box in the barn because things do that in this barn...). Very grateful for the extra income!
So now I just need to figure out groceries and get some cooking done at home. I have a couple whole chickens in the freezer, I need to plan to thaw them and figure out what to do with them. The planning part is the part that doesn't always go so well. Or at least I plan just fine, but then when it comes time to execute, that's when things get tricky. Suggestions for something simple and yummy to do with a whole chicken???
