- grocery store
- pay bills
- fill the hummingbird feeders
- pay bills
- fill the hummingbird feeders
From reading your posts, your husband sounds so helpful. My husband doesn't help me with anything.But he never listens to me anyway, so I don't know why I bother.
You know, he really is very helpful. He tends not to do chores on his own, but if I ask him to vacuum, for example, he'll do it. Or he'll make dinner, if I'm not going to be home right away or it's something he can make. He scoops the litter boxes on weekends, but I do it during the week. He empties out the dishwasher during the week and I do it on weekends. He will do laundry and when I do it, he'll always help fold it, put it away, etc.From reading your posts, your husband sounds so helpful. My husband doesn't help me with anything.
- Breakfast for the kids, 3.5 miles on the treadmill, the usual morning stuff
- I need to put gas in my car over lunch today. I was going to stop at the gas station on my way into work, but was running late.
- Staying at my co-worker's house tonight to cat-sit. He is going to the Springsteen concert tonight. And he's worried sick about his boys. I kept telling him that the kids will be fine and I promised that I won't leave the house at all tonight. I will stay with them until tomorrow morning. I promised him 100 times that the boys would be fine. He gave me two sets of house keys (in case one set doesn't work, even though we tried both of them). He gave me the garage door opener. He is in panic-mode. I went up for a trial run last night; I know how to feed them. I know where the scooper is. I know where Da Bird "sleeps" when they're not playing. The boys will be fine!
Rick is coming up for supper; I think we'll just order in a pizza. We'll watch a bit of tv (gives Rick a chance to check out DirectTV) and then he'll go home to our kids. I'm bringing my exercise mat and my dumbbells, so I can do my exercises.
The plumber did get here yesterday. The softener needed a new filter and needed to be reset. It was re-charging this morning while I was on the treadmill. So that's taken care of.
Your co-worker sounds like our kind of person. He needs to become a member. We need more cat loving men on the board.
- Breakfast for the kids, 3.5 miles on the treadmill, the usual morning stuff
- I need to put gas in my car over lunch today. I was going to stop at the gas station on my way into work, but was running late.
- Staying at my co-worker's house tonight to cat-sit. He is going to the Springsteen concert tonight. And he's worried sick about his boys. I kept telling him that the kids will be fine and I promised that I won't leave the house at all tonight. I will stay with them until tomorrow morning. I promised him 100 times that the boys would be fine. He gave me two sets of house keys (in case one set doesn't work, even though we tried both of them). He gave me the garage door opener. He is in panic-mode. I went up for a trial run last night; I know how to feed them. I know where the scooper is. I know where Da Bird "sleeps" when they're not playing. The boys will be fine!
Rick is coming up for supper; I think we'll just order in a pizza. We'll watch a bit of tv (gives Rick a chance to check out DirectTV) and then he'll go home to our kids. I'm bringing my exercise mat and my dumbbells, so I can do my exercises.
The plumber did get here yesterday. The softener needed a new filter and needed to be reset. It was re-charging this morning while I was on the treadmill. So that's taken care of.
Everything is going to be fine. Does he not know about the six cat circus you live in with The Beast as a supporting act? If you can handle them, you can handle anything.Honestly the man would fit right in on the board; he's truly a great cat-dad and he just adores his boys. He doesn't have a computer, just his cell, and he doesn't have internet service.
He just called me to say that he was leaving, but wanted me to know that the cats might be at the door when I come in and he wanted to make sure that I'd realize that. And to be careful when I unlocked the door to come into the house. He was very specific: Open the garage door, walk in, shut the garage door all the way. And THEN I can unlock the house! And then we went through the food routine again, even though I went up last night and fed his boys while he watched. And even though he wrote it all down. I don't know who's worse, a cat mom or a cat dad! :lol3:
Oh, and then he asked me to please check for mail, BUT again be careful when opening the door because the cats will want to get out. And maybe I should check for the mail while the cats are eating their canned food, so they won't come with me to the door.
Dear lord, if anything happens to those boys while I'm there, I will never forgive myself! :jaw:
Thanks!Winchester, enjoyed your post in reply to mine.
Yesterday afternoon we had an invasion of flies. No clue why they came in the house or how they got into the house. It was truly horrible. There were at least 100 in various spots downstairs, especially in kitchen. The sheer in my vestibule between our 2 front doors was smothered in them. Could not sleep last night because I knew 1st thing I would go to the hardware store for fly strips. Bought 16 of them & have put them in various places. Will totally lose it if they return in the p.m. Have asked husband to cover food if he is cooking, etc., but most likely he won't.
oh my goodness! the Braised Pork Ragu turned out incredibly good! i always read the reviews for recipes, before making them. and so i'd read that some reviewers had a problem with the ragu thickening properly. when i made the recipe, everything went very smoothly with it until the thickening part. i let the ragu simmer for the 30 minutes in the recipe, plus 25 more minutes. still i was seeing a little more watery-ness to it than i would have preferred. so i added about 1 1/2 oz of tomato paste (was suggested by some of the recipe reviewers), stirred it in, and let that simmer for about 4 or 5 more minutes. that made it absolutely perfect, and very delicious. i was thinking i'd serve the Braised Pork Ragu over a (microwaved) baked potato, mushed up a bit, but after tasting the finished ragu, i'll be serving it over some penne pasta with a little grated parmesan cheese over it. i usually cook a day ahead of starting to eat my meals, because i prefer to cook in the morning -- i don't like doing a mass of dishes late in the day. here's the recipe, for anyone interested in it -- http://allrecipes.com/recipe/213799/braised-pork-ragu/
@mickNsnicks2mom, how was your pork ragu? It sounded really good.
- Back to the morning routine with the furkids this morning, then I hit the treadmill for 3.5 miles while Rick scooped the boxes and dumped out the de-humidifier. I worked on two loads of laundry, too.
- I think we're going to close the pool today. Rick's leaving for Oregon this week and he wants to close it now, so he doesn't have to worry about it when he comes back. We're going to be heading to Vermont later on this month, so we need to get it done now. He shocked it last night and has the chemicals, so it's just a matter of a good vacuum, throwing in the winter chemicals and slapping the cover down. We don't even have the lower the water level; we're so dry that we've been afraid to add water to the pool as we're on a well.
- A good vacuum and dusting about the house today. I want to wipe down the kitchen and bathroom, too.