This has been a crazy weekend. Friday started off pretty normal. We ended the day by walking to the park and letting the kids hangout.
Saturday morning my dog woke me up at 4:30 to go outside and when I was letting him in, my son’s cat Monkey, ran outside. I couldn’t catch her. She still hadn’t come back when we woke up. He was devastated. I asked all the neighbors and put her picture up on the Next Door app. Nothing.
We had disconnected our horrible, terrible satellite internet service we had at the other house. Our 2 year contract was finally over. We received the boxes to send the modem back and lo and behold, we had to have a part off of the actually dish that was on the roof of the other house. Donny called them to explain our situation, but they said if we didn’t have it they would charge us $200!
So guess what we had to go buy.
The house had already been rented again, but luckily they hadn’t moved in yet. We just kind of snuck in and took the part off.
On the way home we found this little guy just standing, head out, in the middle of a busy street. I got out, stopped a car before they ran him over and brought him home with us.
Still no Monkey and the weather is getting bad. After the rain storm, guess who comes wandering up?
She’s been following my son around like a puppy and is now napping in my laundry basket. We are all so relieved because right after she showed up the most evil looking clouds started rolling in. The wind picked up. Then the rain started and it began to hail. I thought it was going to break our windows. Donny and I were scheduled to work Waitr in 45 minutes. It finally quit hailing, but it was pouring. The only thing that saved me, because we had 14 deliveries and I looked like a drowned rat, were Belly Flops.
They are the irregular Jelly Belly jellybeans. It’s VERY important to have snacks when you’re delivering food or you will be starving from all the delicious smells.
I do not like working in the rain, but it’s so busy when there is bad weather. I guess this week is going to be very busy.
I hope your Memorial Day is sunny and warm. I’m watching the rain pour down out our window and I don’t think it’s stopping any time soon.
With a little creative storage and a lot of purging, we have managed to make it work.
The shoebox holds the extra that doesn’t fit in the storage tote. I’m sure I could use a fancier box, but the whole point of downsizing was to save money and spending on something that hides in a closet really doesn’t make sense to me.
I still feel like there are too many products, so we are using up what we have and will only be replacing what we really love.
I’m still trying to come up with a better solution for our toothbrushes, but for now this is it.
the streets in our new neighborhood are so much wider. Longview has no sidewalks, like none, anywhere. So wide streets are important.
A great little neighborhood park. But it’s not just a park. It leads onto the hiking trail with a nifty little bridge.
I cooked it for about 30 minutes. There’s no set time, just when you feel like all the sugars are broken down.
just cook according to package directions. The ones I used you just pour boiling water over, leave for 1 minute 15 seconds, then dunk then in cold water for 1 second.
Now here is the fun part. Rice paper comes in a thin hard disk, like a flattened paper plate. But when you soak it in water
it becomes translucent and pliable. The package says to soak it in warm water for 5 seconds. That wasn’t long enough though. You don’t want any stiffness to remain.
See what I mean? You can barely see it on the cutting board.
I like to dip mine in peanut sauce.
We planned to do a little fishing. There are two really good fishing piers.
Hannah caught the first fish.
Jack caught the next one and ended up catching the most. We threw them all back, but everyone had fun.
After a few hours of fishing, we decided to do a little geocaching. If you’ve never tried it, you should. All you have to do is download the app.It will tell you how far you are from a cache, give you the coordinates and then you have to find it. The cache can be all different things. Sometimes there are little gifts, but most of the time there is just a log where you sign your name and the date you found it.
At the top of a hill we came across this structure that was built in the 1930’s.
By the time we got back down to the trailhead, we were all pretty worn out. It was getting late so we decided to head home. I had seen that there was another geocache not far from the entrance to the park so we decided to give it another shot and guess what…..
The perfect ending to a really good day.
Donny suggested that we spend the day in Jefferson for mother’s day. Well, heck yeah. It’s one of our favorite towns to visit. We had seen an expose on the news about how the downtown area was opening up again, so we thought we’d go see what there was to do.
The Funky Frugalista 