Hot and sunny week-end

Friday began with having to change out our kitchen faucet. The retractable faucet broke the night before and needed to be replaced. My Sweetie had pulled out everything from under the sink so he could have a better look at what he needed and then left it all there while he drove into Home  Depot to get the parts. So when I finally crawled out of bed and made it downstairs to have my coffee, that was the mess waiting for me. So I used the opportunity to wash the cupboard (inside and out) and got rid of three cleaners that I will not use. 

In the afternoon, I knew I had more beans to pick but I was surprised at how many were on the plants still. The sweat was pouring off me as I was out there picking. I noticed these two small green peppers were wilting on the plant so I picked them and brought them in. I have since cut them up and put them in the fridge to use this week. I still have peppers in the garden but they look fine. I also sliced up the pork loin I bought the day before into pork chops and only one small roast which I will probably cook up in the crock pot with barbecue sauce to make shredded pork sandwiches at some point. I froze everything but two chops which I decided to roast with some scalloped potatoes for dinner that night. I prepared the lidded casserole dish to pop into the oven, when the phone rang. It was my friend from Charleston Lake, who when she learned what I was going to make for supper, reminded me that she had given me an electric roasting pan for Christmas. "Don't you have an electrical outlet outside on your deck?", she asked.  

Third harvest from my burgundy bean plants

Oh my God. I can't believe I had forgotten about this appliance. I have used it this past winter to cook turkeys and roasts, but I never thought of using it in the summer, as an outdoor oven. She explained to me that between this and the barbecue, there is no reason to use your oven inside. She even bakes pies and desserts in this roaster. It has a thermostat on the front of it. So I put the casserole dish inside, turned it on, and had a little rest before dinner in my air-conditioned bedroom. Dinner was scrumptious.  

My electric roasting pan is now my new favourite appliance. 

Yesterday was Saturday. My friend who is recovering from surgery drove herself to my house and picked me up to spend the day away with her.  She is no longer in need of walking with a walker. She is recovering very quickly and we spent the day shopping like the old days. We went to Giant Tiger in Napanee. I bought some grocery specials, including two 400 gm blocks of cheddar cheese for $3.44 each. After we spent quite a bit of time there, we went to the Chit Chat Cafe to buy lunch. I ate a chicken Caesar wrap and a cold V8 juice and she ate an all-day breakfast. We next went to our very favourite Hardware store (Home Hardware) and took our time browsing. I hadn't planned on buying anything, but I found Finish Dishwasher detergent on for 1/2 price, a stocking stuffer, and AA solar rechargeable batteries. We both love to take our time in this store. There are all kinds of unexpected little treasures.

From there we drove to the village of Bath. I think we went inside every shop on the Main Street. It was so much fun, I didn't get home until 4:30  I have officially spent my total August household budget in the first week of August. I won't be required to spend any more this month as I have everything I need and I still have the rest of my gift card for milk, bread, etc. at Shoppers Drug Mart. But it is scary all the same, knowing that the household budget is gone. If I need any more money, it will have to come from elsewhere in the budget. That, my friends, is why I hate going out shopping. 

Today was spent in the kitchen. No, it did not rain Friday night as promised. And this weekend is still 30 degrees Celcius, so not cooler as promised. But I decided I needed to make muffins with some over ripe bananas from the freezer and 2 dozen zucchini muffins with one of the huge zucchinis from the garden. I also made a meat spaghetti sauce for a spaghetti supper tonight and pizza later in the week. I am done now. ....done like dinner. I will catch up on the Olympics tonight and then watch a few more episodes of Grace and Frankie on Netflix. We have finished Downton Abbey (thank you again Nathalie) and Breaking Bad, so looking for more to watch. See you tomorrow.