A slow and drizzly Monday

That's certainly what yesterday was like! So much so that I didn't feel like I actually got going until 3:30pm! I did a few things here and there, but it was just slow...

Breakfast: Get whatcha want.

Lunch: Ditto... (Told ya it was slow...) I had a clementine.

Dinner: Daddy made turkey pot pie with more Thanksgiving left-overs.

I'm excited about a little project that was partially completed in the kitchen yesterday! Towel bars were installed! They're going to help us organize the lids to our pots! The pots and lids were all together in the cabinet, and it was terrible trying to find the right lid and extract it without pulling others along with it. Hopefully these will add a cheap, simple, but significant measure of sanity to our kitchen life. 

We'll be adding one or two longer towel bars on the wall on the right; the plan right now is for those to hold our larger lids. I'm really excited to see such progress to our home organization!

BEEF!!!

We have some now!!! Like, 200lbs or so. And for a killer good price!!! The beef cost $192.18 to process. I have to confess that for that really awesome price, and the amount of meat we got, I'm almost tempted to say we'll never process our own beef again. However, I'd personally rather miss the fellowship and camaraderie we've always had at those times. Still, at a dollar or less a pound...

When Daddy went to pick up our beef, he also grabbed some bacon and sausage. That brought the total to $229.52. The grocery balance for this pay period, including the $34 from the last one, is now $304.69. As I said in the last post, we'll have some chickens to pay for, but after that, there shouldn't be too awfully many expenses... right? I hope!

The Challenge - Assets, Part 1

First of all let me say that the template of this blog will probably be constantly changing for a while. I'm not really liking the way Blogger is fencing me in when it comes to text color - particularly on the side bar.

Okay, yesterday I mentioned that I was starting out with a bunch of "assets." Today, I'll start by listing what spaces are at my disposal. The challenge, remember, begins in exactly one week. This week I've been reorganizing all our food stuffs so that I am able to tell precisely what we have. One of the benefits of doing this is that the shelves look a LOT neater, and the spaces are used much more efficiently.

We have roughly 3 1/2 of these industrial/restaurant wire shelves, similar to THIS, that are used as our pantry (our new-to-us, 110 year old, frequently remodeled house has no pantry...). I've spent the last couple of days looking through everything on those shelves and making them nice and pretty. ;) Well, more organized anyway.

I wish I had a before picture 'cause this looks a LOT better!

On top of these three shelves, we have currently in use 2 chest freezers and 2 refrigerator/freezer units. I haven't yet gone through those... (but I'm planning on it!). I've got some plans for a few smallish changes, but they haven't happened yet, so I can't really include them in my assets.

Anyway, that's the kind of space I have. Check back tomorrow (hopefully) for part 2. I might actually get around to listing some of the food items we already have on hand.