I woke up at 4:00 a.m. on Sunday. I tried to fall back asleep,
but then I gave up and got up. I fixed a cup of coffee and filled in the rest
of the Blog entry.
It was 15 degrees F., BTW, with a predicted “high” of 25
degrees!
I started watching the local morning news. After a bit, I
shaved and showered.
Then I started my Sunday supper. I had bought a five-pound
bags of precooked meatballs and a large can of Swedish meatball sauce from GFS
last week. I thawed out the meatballs overnight and put them into my Dutch
oven. I stirred in the sauce and added the only thing I ever do to this
mixture: lots of fresh parsley. BTW, the parsley was frozen when I went out to
pick it, but it thawed quickly inside. The parsley really brightens this dish up.
Why so much food?
Well, for starters, they only sell it in this size. And, I plan on
freezing most of it in four-cup containers so I can have a good, satisfying
meal on a moment’s notice. All I will have to do is warm them up in the
microwave, boil some wide egg noodles and dinner’s done.
So, when the Swedish meatballs were done, I boiled a half
package of wide egg noodles. I drained them when they were al dente and added
some butter, so they wouldn’t stick together. I plated some and added the
Swedish meatballs on top for a most excellent (if somewhat unusual) breakfast.
I was watching my little friend, the red-headed woodpecker,
attack the suet cake when my glance happened upon the rain gauge. Oh, crap! I didn’t
take in the rain gauge! So, I ran outside and retrieved it. There were two
inches of rain/snow frozen in the plastic tube. I set it in the downstairs
bathroom shower to thaw, praying it didn’t split the tube.
Since I was freakin cold anyway, I made my belated trip up
into the attic to retrieve my suitcase (hey, I’m a wimp, okay?) Then I started
to clean the house.
Now, I’ve had some issues with my vacuum cleaner. When you
started it up, there was a “puff” of dust, then it worked fine. I couldn’t
figure it out! I took it apart and blew out everything with the air compressor
and it still did it. I even went so far as to decide to take it to Banks Vacuum
on Five-Mile and have it looked at. But, (fortunately) they had moved to a new
location. Anyway, to make a long story short, I came across the Owner’s Manual a
few days ago while searching for another one.
So, I read it. Turns out there were two (not one but two)
pre-filters I was totally unaware of. I took them both out and blew them off
(You wouldn’t have believed the dust and cat hair that came off them),
reassembled it all and it was working perfectly.
Note to Self: Read the damn owners guides when you first buy
stuff!
Then I proceeded to vacuum the whole house. I moved the
kitchen chairs and the rolling cart into the living room. I pulled the car
outside and locked it. It was my plan to fire up the propane heater and work on
the bike after I finished with the house cleaning, you see.
So, next I fixed a bucket of steaming hot water and Pine
Sol. I normally just use my Wet-Jet for quick floor washing, but I decided I
needed to deep clean the floors today.
I grabbed the mop and my bucket and washed the downstairs
bath room. Then I moved onto the kitchen floor.
I was more or less locked into the bedroom, office, living
room and office, so I turned on the TV. Fortunately, “Cliffhanger” was just
starting, so I watched it. I love the scenery! Unfortunately, before it
finished, I fell asleep and took a nice nap.
It was already dark when I woke up. So, I gave up and pulled
the car back inside. I put everything back in place in the kitchen and dusted
the living room. The Nightly News was on so I watched it.
When I got hungry, I heated up the rest of the egg noodles
and some of the Swedish meatballs and ate a hearty Sunday supper. The rest of
the Swedish meatballs went into containers and then into the freezer. I filled
up the Dutch oven to soak, and then caught the last period of the Red Wings
game. We won!!!
From there, I switched to the “Wild Bunch,” the 1969 Sam Peckinpah
bloody (very bloody) western on the Sundance channel. I really like the Sundance
channel because they don’t censor the films at all and they are currently
showing the “101 films you must see before you die.” I’ve seen four of them so far, so I guess I
won’t die for a while…
That got over around 10:00 p.m. and went to the “Unforgiven”
with Clint Eastwood, which I’ve seen a million times. But, I watched it until I
got tired and then went to sleep.
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