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Post by Minerva on Mar 5, 2017 17:15:31 GMT -5
@ally, I think Bar Keeper's Friend is available here - I'll keep an eye out for it being on offer. In the meantime, your mention of scouring got me to try bicarbonate of soda on my horrid cream plastic kitchen sink - has taken a few marks off that I didn't think were shifting for anything. I have most of the sink soaking right now (with some washing powder) because it marks so terribly. I'll give it a good scrub with some bicarb if it's still looking mucky when I've drained it. May have to try the bicarb on the hob too.
Done: Made some rice pudding to use up the milk I bought yesterday (I very rarely buy milk, but it was fancy full-cream Jersey milk and very reduced because it was nearing its use-by date) Did another load of washing up so everything is clean from my cooking exploits today (except the dish the rice pudding is baking in, and a spoon for stirring/sampling) Wiped down all my kitchen surfaces
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Post by Minerva on Mar 5, 2017 17:17:28 GMT -5
missjean - sounds like you're feeling pretty grotty! Get well soon.
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Post by yrwelcome on Mar 5, 2017 18:23:53 GMT -5
Hi WITs
Minerva- nice work cleaning up after cooking.
Missjean- feel better soon!
Ta-da
removed cobwebs kitchen area swiped pantry shelves washed all storage containers sorted/tossed/ reorganized contents
To-do
shower, get dressed get cash from ATM out with a friend
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Post by missjean on Mar 5, 2017 20:30:32 GMT -5
Thank you all. Yes, it's pink eye. I've had it once before. I got my lesson plans done and was delighted that I found a substitute who, although she doesn't know the subject, will follow my directions and call me if she has questions.
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Post by mouseanne on Mar 6, 2017 7:46:15 GMT -5
Minerva I hope your burn wasn't too bad. I did a bit more laundry & sewed some. L@zy Sunday afternoon.
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Post by grace on Mar 6, 2017 9:35:25 GMT -5
It's Monday here. My friend said he'd come help me clean out my garage today. That may take some emotional work as much of it belongs to my daughters.
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Post by oust on Mar 6, 2017 22:55:21 GMT -5
I cleaned and plunged the bathroom sink. Washed all the dishes Mopped the bathroom and kitchen floor
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Post by yrwelcome on Mar 6, 2017 23:38:38 GMT -5
Hi WITs Oust- enjoy those clean floors! I hope your plunging efforts worked. Ta-da a.m. routine new kitty to vet dump run completed returned truck picked up completed tax returns made a comfortable indoor enclosure for dogs To-do read a bit POA for tomorrow get a good night's sleep
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Post by oust on Mar 7, 2017 7:53:34 GMT -5
Thanks yrwelcome.
Up early for work
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Post by missjean on Mar 7, 2017 11:54:46 GMT -5
Good morning, guys and dolls. Feeling better today but I slept in and took it slow this morning.
TA-DAH 1. Bedding round #1 in washer 2. Showered and dressed 3. Cleaned bathroom sink 4. Swept hallway 5. Put in eye drops 6. Nutritional shake
TO DO 1. Still behind in grading. So I'm aiming to be caught up to last Thursday 2. Make lunch 3. Go through some receipts
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Post by mouseanne on Mar 7, 2017 20:04:28 GMT -5
Washed & dried pillowcases Housekeeper came today: Kitchen work We took all the food/cans off the two very high shelves (7-1/2 foot & 8-1/2 foot high), things had got shoved to the back, tossed dated pasta, parm cheese, 2015 mayo, etc. yuk. We cleared the under counter & arranged the canned goods. I thought I had sorted all the canned goods, tossing older than a year, and using up the under a year olds, but we found more, in a box in the dining room. We put boxes, mixes, rice, cereal back on the 7-1/2 high shelf, cuz I can reach it, but nothing pushed to the back. No food on the top one, though. Took the little pile of gardening tools out of the green cupboard, put a bin in there for bread. The gardening tools are problematic. The house has two closets, my bedroom closet, and the one that would be the other bedroom, but is my living room. I keep coats in that closet. No linen closet. The broom closet is down three very steep stairs in the laundry room, and I don't want the gardening tools down there. I want them handy, so I can do quick porch flower tasks. Hmm, a pretty basket, tall enough you cannot see in it, under the buffet? (The body of it is fairly high off the ground.) I do know I need to stop hoarding food. It's been a long time since I was food-poor. The kitchen is a step closer to functioning well.
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Post by mouseanne on Mar 8, 2017 7:16:01 GMT -5
Ran home for lunch yesterday. Housekeeper was in kitchen when I left & I didn't want to be in her way making a lunch.
Tossed in crock, 2 pints spaghetti sauce I had canned 2015, 2 dated cans, tomato sauce, rotel. Added precooked frozen hamburger (mince). Set a pot of water on stove ready to boil for pasta.
Home 7:30, yummy supper. Didn't make enough pasta to accommodate the leftovers. Sauce to fridge. Hand washed colander, pasta pan, spoon rest. ETE'd kitchen. Crock still in base, soaking with water.
Tossed some moldy leeks and too old sausage.
This am put away drainer things & washed crock.
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Post by yrwelcome on Mar 8, 2017 11:00:14 GMT -5
Good Morning WITS Mouseanne- good job on all the kitchen work. The basket storage sounds like a good idea for the garden tools. Missjean- glad you are feeling better gratitudes,made bed scoop litters swish n swiped BR emptied DW dogs out exercise uniforms
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Post by mouseanne on Mar 8, 2017 13:32:39 GMT -5
Crock dried in drainer, put it away wiped counters dumpt 4 fridge containers, into DW tossed 3 more fridge items carried out kitchen trash (yay! it's trash day)
Had had a stack of plastic (3) & fabric (2) drawer on a cardboard wardrobe. The tape gave way, the bar collapsed, and the drawers hit the floor. One drawer is in the laundry room. I think I discovered a mousie thingy in it so needed to wash the drawer...then the drawer ends up being used for laundry sorting...
So, in the drawer cavity is a plastic shoe box with no lid 3/4 full of buttons (purchased kit & caboodle 2nd hand for $3)
Yes, buttons everywhere
drawers & buttons not exactly in the way, but kind of. and messy.
Picked up drawers, put the 3 plastic ones on bedroom dresser. They may end up in the closet, we shall see.
picked up lots of buttons
Contemplated all done yesterday. Thought about big goals. Wrote some brain dump.
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Post by Ally on Mar 8, 2017 15:18:59 GMT -5
Hi everyone! I started back to work and back to school on Monday. Over the next couple of months you may see me here mostly on the weekends because the way this professor assigns the work, most of my work will be need to be done on my weekday off, which is Wednesday.
ta-da's: Loaded and started dishwasher Skimmed through required readings for class Completed 1st writing assignment Unloaded the dishwasher
to-do: I'm going to go out for a walk, then come back and water my houseplants, fill the bird feeder, rinse and fill the chicken waterer, maybe do a little yard work or work on my taxes. Laundry? Work on vacation plans???
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