It was an exciting past week-end here in the world of Multiply blogging. A cyber birthday for MkChippy full of Trekkie fans and aliens, html and videos. Pics of whatzits, Suzi smoking,... Sue doped up on drugs with lepper-cons aboard Captain Morgan's pirate ship. Vero's Jack in the beanstalk pepper plant, (or a possible midget confession) Mac's reappearance in the blogging world, and a host of other blogs that lead to the distractions of every day life.
If only real life could be so exciting...but it never is, or at least not in the way we hope it to be. Between all the giggles and postings, I will admit to having a few grumblings this past week-end in my real world. During one of the hottest weeks in the month, the ancient hulk of a deep freeze in it's quiet little corner decided to give one last cough and sputter before dieing a most inopportune death.
Sunday....why does everything have to break down on a Sunday? Living in the middle of nowhere in my cornfield, the closest thing open is a discount store and if I am lucky, a Dairy Queen. I can't get a deep freeze at either, except for a brain freeze at the DQ if I eat my ice cream too fast.
So some of the unintelligible frozen blobs of something were farmed out to other places. Some crammed in the fridge, some moved to another fridge of my mother's...and some just had to sit tight in state of semi-mushyness til they could be fostered out (or frosted?) to a new home. Frozen bags of shredded zucchini were rock solid... bags of this year's crop of strawberries were thawing quickly along with frozen pizzas. I've been eating pizza for two days now, and I think I will be having a few more days of the stuff.
It's enough to give a person a head-ache trying to figure out what should be cooked, what looks okay and is pretty solid yet, and figuring out just how many jars a person needs for bags and bags of thawed strawberries now needing to be made into preserves. I think some stuff is just going to have to be cooked and frozen again.
I am not sure on whether to be thankful or not that the two year old turkey at the back of the freezer seems to be okay. I'd gladly give up the turkey for something else that takes up less space.
So today was a day spent looking for a new freezer and having it delivered. Everything is now tucked in it's new home, minus a few things.... okay several things....
Anyone have a good recipe that calls for strawberries, thawed pizza, coolwhip, peas, hamburger and a package of bacon?...
(Come on Chef Mac,... I know you won't disappoint me)....
