Well the trip to CA was wonderful - and I'll post more, and some pictures later. The trip home was amazing scenery wise.
We got home at 1:30 AM, the mice had had a party while we were gone. We still don't have all that mess cleaned up - geeze; they had a good ol' time in the kitchen (I can just see the dance party and the search party looking for food), and then the reprobates even used our bed. Had to change sheets and all before bed at 2:30am!
Of course two weeks of un-use and the water heater had to be drained and flushed (???????) Still not perfect, but ok. I just hope we can get that cleared up.
So - we had to go to the store today. I had 15 items on the produce list and only managed to get 9. I couldn't believe it - two grocery stores, 9 days of menus - and we only managed enough for 4 dinners. No Italian parsley, no cilantro, basil, Swiss chard, decent asparagus, and on and on. It will take, more than likely, a trip to Bismarck to actually get veggies. In one store the veggies on display looked like the stuff I tossed from my veggie bins after the trip. The other store had some of those too, and anything that looked fresh was priced through the roof. Geeze. We're going to get an Aerogarden for herbs - and, this is for publication - we're seriously seriously working on how to get back to CA.
I cannot cook like this!!!!
Thanks for listening - I just needed to vent a bit.
We got home at 1:30 AM, the mice had had a party while we were gone. We still don't have all that mess cleaned up - geeze; they had a good ol' time in the kitchen (I can just see the dance party and the search party looking for food), and then the reprobates even used our bed. Had to change sheets and all before bed at 2:30am!
Of course two weeks of un-use and the water heater had to be drained and flushed (???????) Still not perfect, but ok. I just hope we can get that cleared up.
So - we had to go to the store today. I had 15 items on the produce list and only managed to get 9. I couldn't believe it - two grocery stores, 9 days of menus - and we only managed enough for 4 dinners. No Italian parsley, no cilantro, basil, Swiss chard, decent asparagus, and on and on. It will take, more than likely, a trip to Bismarck to actually get veggies. In one store the veggies on display looked like the stuff I tossed from my veggie bins after the trip. The other store had some of those too, and anything that looked fresh was priced through the roof. Geeze. We're going to get an Aerogarden for herbs - and, this is for publication - we're seriously seriously working on how to get back to CA.
I cannot cook like this!!!!
Thanks for listening - I just needed to vent a bit.
You only live once . . . but if you do it right once should be enough!