I couldn’t sleep and was up at 5 AM on
Friday (10/28). Paperwork took up most
of my time, but I did manage to get Pat’s quilt trimmed and all of the bobbin
ends sewn in before Michael got up at 7:30. It's a good thing because that was the last I saw of my studio on Friday!
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| she used a star motif because Leo IS a STAR!!! |
I balanced the checkbook while Michael made me a smurfy breakfast of
egg/cheese/toast, then he took Cookie for a walk while we had our final Chocolate
Event meeting. I had to really hide my
smile during most of the meeting….in case you don’t know this about me…I think
I try to keep things simple. I resisted many suggestions for the Chocolate Event during our planning phase which (in
my opinion) would have done nothing more than make more work for people. I heard from numerous people that worked the
event, and from people who attended the event, that it ran very smoothly. So, now we have our follow-up meeting to go
over anything that we might have felt didn’t work….or we felt could be done differently
next year. Almost EVERY suggestion given
was one that will make much more work for the committee, without (again in my opinion) making the event much better! It’s just like when you have a group of
ladies getting together for cards…and they decide the hostess should provide a
dessert. Then the next month the hostess
does a dessert, plus some bowls of nuts.
The following month there’s a theme to the nuts, small finger sandwiches
and 2 desserts and a flavored coffee!
And so it goes….I guess this group is no different…luckily for me, I
will not be in charge next year and they can work as much as they want :~). Or
maybe they’ll get lucky and get another chairperson who is strong enough to say
NO! Anyway, after that I made up a run
of chocolate mousse and we headed over to Gale & Phil’s house. Gale didn’t get any mousse at the Chocolate
Event (neither did Ann Mary....so I sent some over to her later in the day), and she had some minor surgery, so we thought we would take some
over. We sat and talked for a couple of
hours, and finally headed home…and to the dreaded task of defrosting our garage
freezer. I used to defrost this once a
year…but it has been MANY years since I did it.
It was TERRIBLE….filled to the brim with ice. We started at 1 Pm and were not fully
finished until 5!!!! Here’s our progress
in pictures:
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| OMgoodness....who KNOWS what's in there??? |
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| 1/2 emptied, but first cooler is full |
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| just look at that frost |
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| making progress...bottom shelf looking good |
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| waiting patiently in the sun for us to be done! |
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| why doesn't the water all come out into the tray I have under the freezer??? |
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| final desperate measure to get frost off of top! |
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| a thing of beauty |
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| voila...finally done |
Michael and I were both
shocked that I took 4 bags of veggie scraps out to make veggie broth,
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| notice labels....YAY! |
plus 2
pints of tomato sauce and cheese (for dinner tomorrow) and all of that ice and the freezer doesn’t
appear appreciably more empty to us :~(. Oh
well, at least it is frost free and we now have a list of what is in it. I was absolutely beat after that and just
felt like I couldn’t move, so Michael went with Susan and Jim to see TOXIC
AVENGER at Actor’s Theatre and I stayed home and vegged.
