Always on Donny’s days off we have one day that’s just kinda spent around the house and one that is out of the house getting everything done that’s on our lists. I slept so poorly last night because the baby cat and the two daddies were basically having a rave in the other part of the house. At 3 am they finally settled down and slept. I ended up sleeping until 8:30 and was slow to move when I did get up. Donny had gotten the kids up because they had to finish some paperwork at the college. I ended up staying home to get dressed and get some things done around here.

When they got back I was ready and as it turns out we had to run up to the high school to get a transcript for Jackson. Next we needed paper towels so we headed to Home Depot. It was sort of a date day and we were just meandering around the store. One thing we were happy to see is all of the non computerized washer and dryers.

We have been contemplating getting a freezer so we headed over to look at those. The problem is that space is an issue. I’m just not sure where we would put one, but we did find this cool upright that can be a fridge or a freezer.

We also like the very small chest one also.

We’re not quite ready to pull the trigger yet because neither of us have any idea where it will fit. We headed to the paint area to see if there was any oops paint. The guy at the counter said I just missed a purple one and that was the last oops they had. Darn it, I love purple.

I DO know our next purchase and that’s going to be a light weight weed eater. The man helping us had to unlock the case because people just walk out with them and the employees can’t do anything about it or they’ll get fired. What a world.

Next stop was Dollar Tree because I had seen this cloches that I think will really work well for the pumpkin spouts when they go in the ground this weekend.

I also picked up the last bottle of the hair mist. It’s a duplicate of the one I got the other day. I scanned it through the Yuka app and it came back with a good rating. It smells SO good and really lasts.

That was the last of the errands so now it was chickens time. I froze some rinds from the watermelon I cut last night and they loved them. Donny was gathering the eggs while I changed out their water. We thought they weren’t laying much until Donny found a nest in the grass by the shed when we were hauling stuff out for the trash pickup. I think we have a snake under the shed because there were fang marks and some shells where he found them.

Tonight for dinner I made the hamburger cornbread casserole and it was so good and super easy. Here’s the recipe:

I always change the recipe if there’s something in it that I know one of us really doesn’t like. Instead of tomatoes I just added a can of tomato sauce. I also added more milk to the cornbread batter because it was way too think. I baked it for 20 minutes and the cornbread wasn’t done, but it was browned so I just covered it with foil and baked it for an additional 12 minutes.

We finally got our rainstorm. I noticed it was getting so dark. Our solar lights came on at 6:30 then the thunder started.

We needed the rain so badly.

But it made a nice little pond where I am working on the pavers. Hopefully it will dry out quickly.

At least our rain barrel will be filled again.