Well, the cold my litle plague carriers gifted me with has turned in to bronchitis; upside, the steroids have me buzzed enough that I'm able to get stuff done anyway LOL! And now I have a spare inhaler to put in the med stocks, as I still have the one from about this time last year - woo hoo!
Wednesday, I tossed the comforters and the sleeping bags from the vehicles in the car and toted them over to the laundromat and got them put in. Left there to go to the Evil Empire; low tire light came on on my car - yup, it was low. Turned around, went to the tire shop; they did a quick check, aired it up, told me to go finish my errands and come back. Back to EE, where I paid for the trampoline daughter had ordered for the boys' Easter gift, and arranged to pick it up that evening. Then it was off to daughter's house, where I checked on their dog and snagged two of my crock pots. Laundromat then - one washer hadn't worked, so I pulled that comforter out and put it in a different one; bagged the rest and put them in the car. Hit the grocery store for on sale yogurt for Hubs, CVS for a gallon of milk, then back to the tire shop. Farmers are moving equipment - had wire in my tire. They got ir fixed and I headed to the laundromat to pick up that last comforter, then was on the road for home. Got all the stuff hung on the line, along with a load of laundry I found in the washer that Hubs must have done; then flopped down in my chair to rest. Buddy called and said he'd decided to come over to take me to get my long tables at daughters, so I was able to get in a short nap before he got there. Conned him into picking up the trampoline as well, so I wouldn't have to make three trips to town. Home again, unloaded everything, and he visited for a bit before heading home. Hubs and I managed to get the fridge and island counter mostly cleaned before he called it quits; I worked on carrying boxes of jars downstairs and stacking them; and carrying tubs of boy clothes upstairs to stack in their room for later sorting.
Buddy picked me up again Thursday morning and we drove to his sister's house to drop off some medical needs for his brother in law - bilateral knee replacement next week. I had a whole list of shopping I wanted to do, but wasn't feeling well, so after a stop at K-Mart to look for cheap shoes (none), I told Bud I just wanted to pick up the boys' bikes and head home. Well, we got the bikes, but then he talked me into going to the walk in clinic; was glad I did. I had to eat before I took the prednisone, so we grabbed lunch; then he drove me home. As we were driving, one of our co-workers called me in tears; family crisis. She was supposed to work that night, but Buddy and I told her we'd figure it out - he took the first 6 hours of the shift; I took the last. I headed upstairs to grab a nap since the cough med had made me sleepy; got up about 7pm and worked on some sorting and clearing until Hubs went to bed; then plopped down for another hour or so nap.
Got off work at 8am, headed to Home Depot to pick up some floor grates; then it was off to the Evil Empire again - half and half Easter and stock up shopping:
Spam, assorted flavors, 20 cans @ WM price of $2.98 can = $59.60. I ad matched so that dropped it to $2/can, plus had 10 - $1/2 coupons, so that took off a total of $29.60, so $30 for the 20 cans, or $1.50 each. Sell by dates are in 2017, so I think we're okay for storage on that now.
Pineapple 20 oz cans and Mandarin oranges 16 oz cans - 8 pineapple and 6 mandarin oranges @ WM price $1.98 each (insane!!); total: $27.72. Ad matched so that dropped it to 79 cents/can, plus had 7 coupons for 50 cents/2 cans so that saved a total of $20.16, so $7.56 for the 14 cans, or 54 cents each. How on earth do people pay full price for things like this!!?
Carnation milk 12 oz cans - 10 cans @ WM price of $1.68 each = $16.80; ad matched to 99 cents/can, plus had 5 - 55 cent/2 coupons so that saved a total of $9.65, so $7.15, or 72 cents/can.
Bacon - $4.98 WM price; ad matched to $3.99; saved 99 cents
Chips - $3.99 bag price, ad matched to $2.98; saved $1.01
Eggs - 3 dozen at MWM price of $1.68/doz; ad matched to 99 cents/dozen; saved $2.07
Frozen roll dough - 2, 36 ct bags @ WM price $3.98 bag; ad matched to $2.79; saved $2.38
Marzetti salad dressing - used $1/1 coupon.
Had gotten input from family as to what all they were bringing, so was able to mark several things off my list! Still had to pick up a few things, but I think they totaled about $18. Of course, I forgot something - the lemons for the lemonade! Hope to have Hubby pick those up on his way home from work this afternoon.
I was pretty tired as I was leaving town and ran into a bunch of traffic, so deked off on a side road and took the country route home, totally forgetting I needed to stop and order the ham and put gas in my car. Luckily, I texed Hubs and he agreed to take care of the ham on his way home from work, and to take my car back to town to fill it with fuel - he needed to get more gas for the mowers anyway and had forgotten to take the cans to work with him.
Crawled in bed and slept from 11-2:30; then got up and went out to start mowing. Managed to get the area around the house and garden done - only rousted one snake as I mowed off the cornstalks in the garden - sure glad I was on the rider, not push mowing! I do know that I'm going to have to mow the outer areas of the farm on Monday or we'll have to get the bush hog out as my next chance would be Thursday... Got into a lot of dust mowing, so my eyes were a mess by the time I got inside - took some benadryl for them, plus the meds for the bronchitis, hopped in the shower, then headed back to bed around 5:30. Up at 10 pm for another shower, cup of coffee, then headed out to work at midnight.
Today, I need to set up the tables and chairs in the driveway and wash them down with the garden hose; then I think I'll try to grab a short nap sometime before Hubs gets home from work around 3. I'll finish getting stuff put away, then get things set up for the dinner and make my list of what all I have to do the next morning. Kitchen floor will need a quick mopping before I head back to bed, and I'll put extra tp in all the bathrooms, but that should take care of the house.
Nothing will get done tomorrow as that is family day; family will start rolling in around 10 am; daughter and family should get in from their vacation right at dinner time (appetizers at 12, dinner at 1). The boys will stay with us after dinner while they head home to unload the van and put together the trampoline; but won't stay overnight as MGS has school on Monday.
Hubby has Monday off; I don't have to go in until 7pm, so I'm hoping to get some things done as there is a chance of rain in the afternoon. I need him to get the big tiller running so that I can till one garden area and get some strawberries transplanted and mulched; then he needs to get the big rain water tank hooked up to the new guttering and burn a brushpile, while I spend an hour getting that work done in the garden, and another hour on the mower. If there's any time left before I need to nap before work and the rain holds off, I'd like to get some chain saw work done. Looks like there is a 40-50% chance of rain every day but Wednesday this week, so that means the farmers will be going round the clock the next three days; lots of traffic on the roads; lots of dust in the air... Maybe I can use some of the time on those days to finalize my garden plan for the year (ha!)
Hubby does some brewing - wine and beer, mostly. After Easter is over, we plan to start a 5 gallon vat of grape wine, using 2012 home canned grape juice - it won't have any natural yeast left in it as that will have been killed by the canning process, but he can use wine yeast to get it started.
