Pat's quilt finished, freezer cleaning

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!

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:   

OMgoodness....who KNOWS what's in there???

1/2 emptied, but first cooler is full

just look at that frost

making progress...bottom shelf looking good

waiting patiently in the sun for us to be done!

why doesn't the water all come out into the tray I have under the freezer???

final desperate measure to get frost off of top!

a thing of beauty

voila...finally done

Michael and I were both shocked that I took 4 bags of veggie scraps out to make veggie broth, 

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.