Good Morning,
It's Friday, finally. This has been a very exhausting week. Not so much in what we've done but more the mental stress of lots of things that were happening. The final thing for this Friday is a late day Dr. appointment for my face allergy. It has spread a bit to my chest and I feel something on the left side of my abdomen. It is pretty itchy so maybe I can find something that will help through my Dr.
Last night I tried to make baked beans from scratch in my instant pot. It just did not soften the beans up even after 80 minutes in the pressure cooker. I transferred the whole thing to my slow cooker and set it over night and still the beans didn't soften. The beans look like baked beans with the dark coloring but the beans just aren't soft. I think I have to call this one a fail and throw it all away.
We had leftovers for supper last night from the previous night which was mashed potatoes, leftover pulled pork and one chicken leg and a side of asparagus. It was a pork roast from Aldi and it was really good. Tonight I have to start from scratch and make something but I'm just not motivated. But I don't want to go out to eat either. Something will pop into my head during the day today.
Tomorrow we hope to clean out the barn/outbuilding and then put items back into place now that the leak is fixed. It will be a dirty job but the intention is to sweep and clean and sort through stuff. We have a nice faux leather lazy boy chair in the house that we really want to sell. All the mechanisms still work but I replaced it with a slightly smaller chair. I have cleaned out the linen closet and am sorting through bed sheets. My daughter is getting married so we moved her twin bed out and put our queen size bed into her room so when they get married and they come to visit they have a couple's room. We upgraded our mattresses so our room is has new mattresses. My son also is upgrading his twin bed to a queen and his mattress will arrive on Tuesday. Then we will have another twin bed to move out. My other daughter still has her twin bed and she only visits during the summer and Christmas break since she lives out of the country. And, I have another twin frame stored in the basement if we ever need to have an extra bed. I've got a lot of stuff throughout the house that we really need to review and get rid of and I think that's what the weekend will be about.
It will be nice to have an extra day off on Monday. I have big goals for the weekend and I will hold myself accountable to get them all checked off my list.
Alice