Sunday, B did a deep clean of the porch. She must have spent 2.5 hours on it. She swept, vacuumed, cleaned every bit of pet hair off the couch out there with a lint brush and tape. She washed down all the surfaces. She got rid of a lot of odds and ends and junky stuff that had accumulated there. It looks great! We still need to really scrub the floor out there. Huge kudos to B for her hard work!
Monday while I was out, V wiped down all the kitchen counters and vacuumed the family room/kitchen area. I noticed she also threw away the huge pile of lint on the dryer. For some reason the little trash can in there disappeared and so people just kept putting the lint on top of the dryer.
Tuesday - nothing!
Wednesday - I vacuumed the stairs (they were in dire, dire need!), the upstairs hall, the boys' bathroom, my master bedroom and my bathroom.
Thursday - All I managed to do wash scrub some sinks and toilets, 3 sinks to be precise, and two toilets.
I have managed to cook dinner every night this week. However, people are now so out of the habit of eating here and our evening meals have been so disrupted by evening classes and other evening obligations, that I wound up eating much of the food for dinner and lunch myself. Monday I defrosted some steaks from the CSA (1 big one and two small). But only a couple people ate dinner. Luckily, I realized that as I was frying the steak up, so I only cooked the big one. The next night I cooked up one of the smaller steaks for R, and the other I also cooked up but I made a stew with it. I cut it up into bite size pieces and added it to the homemade chicken broth I managed to make from our last chicken meal (can't remember when that was). I added in a big sweet potato, carrots, celery, onion. It was delicious but I think I am the only one who actually ate it. I had it for lunch two days in a row. Wednesday - I cooked up some CSA ground beef with some sprouted quinoa that I had cooked up also in more chicken broth. I and B and D enjoyed it. Thursday I slow cooked a whole chicken in two cans of chopped tomatoes with garlic and roasted peppers. It was excellent. I also almost but not quite used up the last of the chicken broth. Again, myself, B and D ate it. There's tons left over but usually on Friday I try to go meatless. So it might be Saturday's lunch. I'm planning on maybe getting a Tuna sub from Jersey Mike's for dinner (gluten free sub rolls!). B and I are going to Mount Saint Mary's University for a college visit this afternoon and I predict I will not be up for making any dinner. R has been in Austin, TX since Wednesday. Not sure what time he is expected back today, maybe not until night.
Friday housekeeping: R and my laundry; also napkins, dish rags and towels. That's all I have planned. Of course, cleaning the kitchen is an on going task.
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