Hubby's birthday.

 This is from the other day but he loved how well it turned out. Ribeye steak, baked potato and asparagus I froze will be his meal for his birthday.

Son2 is now off work for medical. His employer suggested he file for assistance thru VA as he can't stand very long on his feet. PAIN just runs down his legs through the feet. Doctors don't have answers of why YET, more testing  to come.  He can pay his bills, maintenance on car and house but limited on groceries with the cost that just keeps going up. He was an idiot (his words) and gave his emergency back up incase of electric failure to his girlfriend that is now his ex.   We raided ours, found stuff that we will not use here since we have a wood/coal stove to heat and cook on, solar pump for the deep well, hand pump on cistern and 2 generators. He ordered a grid down "bucket" of dried food that will stay good for 25 yrs. Figured that would cover some of the food issues.  One of those , I don't need to have a pantry as the store is 3 blocks from me. Store manager put a sign out if they lose electric the store would be CLOSED as they don't have a generator to run the store , just protect the freezers and frigs. 

I checked with the girls and Son 1... they said they would be okay for at least a week. I told them to push that amount to 2 wks (comparing to Blizzard of 1978). I will ask again next month. Two of the girls live across from each other, one will have heat, the other has a grill so they decided worse case grill gets carried across the street along with blankets and pillows. LOL

We cleared the gardens. I froze the tomatoes to can later. The last of the winter squash will be cured Thursday so I can move it to the basement then. 

We did a trail run of the wood stove since we changed the cap on the chimney.

Started nicer ... Hubby put 1round log (8 inch wide, 15 inches long) in for night time at it was down to 40 ℉, just one and it ran us out of the house at almost 90 ℉ with every window open GEEZE.  Hubby might have to cut them in half and only use 1 instead of the 6 we used last winter . He thinks it was Birch wood as it burns hotter but doesn't last as long. Took a good 24 hrs to get the house back down to mid 70s 😌

I have all 3 refrigerator freezers organized and 4 of the 6 deep freezers sorted and organized (and inventoried) Still have the beef freezer and the other freezer that is a combination of poultry, seafood and veggies. I restocked nonfood items and otc meds. 

I didn't go to store yet so it will be 8 weeks since we did a shopping except for milk and I picked up large bag of carrots, 2 celery and 25 lbs of bread flour as I shared what I had with M and she just gave me the cash to replace what I gave her.Bulk store was out of all flours and was waiting for delivery. Came in almost a week late. She sent a pie over with the cash . 

I paid all the bills, that's always a sigh of relief. Stayed on budget for groceries/nonfood/ OTC meds.

Now I need to finish the fall cleaning 😕SIGH. 

Blessed be, stay safe

Prayers for peace