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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: brian on April 04, 2020, 04:56:59 am ---I stewed and froze some rhubarb from my garden yesterday, that is testing my culinary abilities.
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I once had rhubarb in my garden and used to make strawberry rhubarb pie and these fantastic rhubarb bars that everybody loved.
But I'm not the one buying up all the flour. I don't bake anymore, mainly because I don't want to eat a bunch of cookies or rhubarb bars or whatever the thing would be.
Every Christmas, I think about, but don't get around to, making these delightful cheese straws I used to make. They're unlike most cheese straws -- for one thing, they're not straw-shaped -- and I've misplaced the recipe I had for them (so old it was typed on a dot-matrix printer). They were like shortbread, except for instead of sweet their flavor was spicy cheddar.
CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends.
I hope everyone is doing well, or as well as can be expected.
I've been doing small chores during the week while I work, so today I decided to do a full "Spring Cleaning".
I moved all the furniture and dusted and vacuumed behind it, I took the curtains off the windows, I took down the blinds and soaked them in the tub to get the dust off them, and I took all the (insert the word of your choosing) collectibles, knickknacks, tchotchkes off the shelves, cleaned them off, and dusted the shelves. While I had the curtains and blinds down, I cleaned the inside and outside of the windows.
I ended up giving a total cleaning to the bedroom and living room, and some cleaning to the kitchen.
At one point we also went to my niece's home, and practiced social distancing. LOL Shana's son, (my grand nephew, Trenton) had a school fundraiser a while ago, and we (mom & I) bought some of the Gertrude Hawke chocolates they were selling. They were sent to Shana's home.
Since we won't be seeing them for Easter, we took all the stuff we had planned to give Trenton for Easter to their home today. We dropped it off on the porch, texted Shana, and she and Trenton came down to pick it up, and to give us our candy. Of course, we stayed the six-feet away, so there were no hugs or kisses. That's ok, it was good just to see them.
By the time we got home, Shana had already posted pics of Trenton opening his goodies, so we were able to see them on Facebook.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on April 04, 2020, 11:30:18 pm ---At one point we also went to my niece's home, and practiced social distancing. LOL Shana's son, (my grand nephew, Trenton) had a school fundraiser a while ago, and we (mom & I) bought some of the Gertrude Hawke chocolates they were selling. They were sent to Shana's home.
Since we won't be seeing them for Easter, we took all the stuff we had planned to give Trenton for Easter to their home today. We dropped it off on the porch, texted Shana, and she and Trenton came down to pick it up, and to give us our candy. Of course, we stayed the six-feet away, so there were no hugs or kisses. That's ok, it was good just to see them.
By the time we got home, Shana had already posted pics of Trenton opening his goodies, so we were able to see them on Facebook.
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That is lovely, you found a good way to do this. :)
I will sure miss our extended families this Easter. :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on April 04, 2020, 11:30:18 pm ---I've been doing small chores during the week while I work, so today I decided to do a full "Spring Cleaning".
I moved all the furniture and dusted and vacuumed behind it, I took the curtains off the windows, I took down the blinds and soaked them in the tub to get the dust off them, and I took all the (insert the word of your choosing) collectibles, knickknacks, tchotchkes off the shelves, cleaned them off, and dusted the shelves. While I had the curtains and blinds down, I cleaned the inside and outside of the windows.
I ended up giving a total cleaning to the bedroom and living room, and some cleaning to the kitchen.
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You would make somebody an awfully good housewife. Or at least housekeeper.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on April 04, 2020, 11:30:18 pm ---I moved all the furniture and dusted and vacuumed behind it, I took the curtains off the windows, I took down the blinds and soaked them in the tub to get the dust off them, and I took all the (insert the word of your choosing) collectibles, knickknacks, tchotchkes off the shelves, cleaned them off, and dusted the shelves. While I had the curtains and blinds down, I cleaned the inside and outside of the windows.
I ended up giving a total cleaning to the bedroom and living room, and some cleaning to the kitchen.
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Wow, very thorough and impressive! I'm going to go through some kitchen drawers and cupboards today, throw out unneeded stuff and clean out the mouse poop. :-X
Even more excitingly, I got a new vacuum! It replaces the klunky old semi-effective Dyson. It's light, thin, agile, cordless and has really good suction. Easy to store neatly, has two attachments. I have a dog and spring is shedding season, so I really need it. Most of my floors are wood, but this works equally well on any surface.
I already had a handheld one, which is pretty effective for small areas. But the Dyson upright has never been very good. I've had to take it into a vacuum repair shop a few times, during which time it switched owners, and both of them have chastised me for having a Dyson. Of course their shop sells vacuums with four-figure prices, which I would never buy. But they say Dysons are bad compared to similarly priced brands (my new one is a Shark). People think Dysons are good. Apparently they just have really effective commercials.
Partly because of Dyson's British accent. Americans think that signifies integrity of some kind. I have a former editor from England, and I've told him that when applying for jobs I'd use him as a reference because then I'd get the job for sure. :laugh:
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