Hot and humid again. Same same.
Yesterday stayed hot hot hot all day. And sweat through to your skin in 5 minutes humid.
So, while I didn’t get much done in the garage, given that it was more than 109F in there, I did yard work. Cut the grass, pulled a couple of weeds. Cleaned up the rest of the mess the heavy trash guys left. Cut and stacked the free firewood. (Used the electric chainsaw.) Pushed dirt around the bottom of the pool.
Then did my auction pickup. Helped load the old bedroom furniture into a lady’s truck (3 trips to fit it all). Cooked dinner. Put the kids to bed. Read more Tales of Alvin Maker: Prentice Alvin to the oldest. Watched some youtube.
Dinner was some super scraggly and thin asparagus from the last supply drop, and almost 2 pounds of sirloin steak from the freezer. My 9yo ate the biggest hunk, half a pound at least, and more than I ate. She is a vicious little carnivore. Last year’s girl scout cookies for dessert.
Today I’m really really really trying to get the freezer into the garage. I’ve got to get a ton of shirt out first, and it’s hot. But I need to get it settled and start stocking it again. I’ve also looked at freezer temperature alarms, and they are either cheap and poorly reviewed, or pretty dang pricey. I’ve got normal digital thermometers on the fridge and the chest freezer. They don’t alarm though, but you can see at a glance the actual temps. I’m going to look some more before deciding what to get. I sure don’t want to lose another freezer full.
Speaking of a freezer full, with additional space I’ll be able to store more frozen fruits and veg. I don’t normally keep much besides meat and butter, with some bread products in the freezers. My wife has a bag of fruit chunks for smoothies in the kitchen freezer. One of the observations someone mentioned about the covid lockdowns so far was wishing they had more frozen fruit. I hadn’t thought much about it, and I have canned fruit and fruit pie filling, but I don’t have much frozen. I think I’ll add a shelf of frozen fruit to the pile.
Always something more to stack, keep at it.
nick