Another Wet Wednesday After a Spendy Tuesday

Yesterday I was out in the morning spending money. I went to the Dollar Tree and spent $11.30 on craft supplies. I put $50 worth of gas in my van. I picked up two prescription refills that I called in earlier in the morning. (no OOP) I picked up a few groceries from Food Basics.

 Meat and dairy cost $26.08  Lean ground beef was $2.88/lb., cheese was $3.88 each 450 gm block, whole milk yoghurt was $1.74, kielbasa was $4.99 and cottage cheese was $2.99

Produce cost $29.33  Cauliflower was $1.98 each. I paid $5 for 12 avocados. I bought frozen blueberries, 2 pkgs. of mushrooms, 4 sweet peppers, 3 green zucchini and 3 sweet potatoes.
Total expenditure was $59.90 because I also picked up 2 more gallons of white vinegar to make more homemade weed killer and a small can of tomato paste. (not shown) Last night I fried four hamburgers and wrapped them in romaine leaves instead of buns. I also had a side of cottage cheese. Today's lunch was the same.

This morning was hot and humid and sunny. Now that I am preparing dinner, a few thunderstorms have passed through our area, bringing lots of drenching rain again. I hope that means cooler temperatures coming.

Bless has made me see another way of breaking up my day and getting things done, since I don't seem to do well with setting goals. She suggested that I spend an hour a day pulling weeds (if weather permitted). Well I quickly discovered that one hour wasn't enough time outdoors with the amount of work that needs doing, so I have been going out for two hours and accomplishing quite a lot. I took it another step further today. I decided I would do housework for one hour a day, crafting for one hour and working in the kitchen for one hour. I can work from a list, or not. This seems to work because as long as I do something for that time allotted, it is bound to make some kind of difference.

This morning found me outside pulling weeds from the driveway again. When I tired of that, I went to the front flower bed and pulled some from there as well.  I pulled more cornflowers from my lawn. I used up half a gallon of my homemade weed killer on the gravel areas that I had worked on this morning. I may be all over the place, but by spending two hours pulling weeds it has to make a difference over all.

I came in for lunch and some iced tea while talking with "Dee" on Facebook Messaging. Then I marked the time and began doing housework. I cleaned my half bath here downstairs by washing the sink vanity and toilet, vacuumed the walls and floor before washing the floor. Then I vacuumed the kitchen and dining room floors. I tackled the cabinet that the fish aquarium sat on and put it outside (never to come inside again). I may put it on the side of the road with "free" on it and see if someone will take it. I also emptied a corner cabinet that sat beside that and moved it out away from the wall. I vacuumed the walls and floor and scrubbed  underneath both of those cabinets. I moved the corner cabinet back in after washing the shelves and moved a wing backed chair into the space where the aquarium used to sit. All of this took closer to two hours instead of one, but I gave myself permission to STOP, since I had done my hour's work.

One of these days I will have to learn HOW to take photos with my tablet. I can't seem to get the auto focus to work when I want it to. Oh well.

My hour crafting was kind of disappointing because I didn't accomplish anything. ( ie.I didn't produce a card.)  However, I stamped some fall images and coloured them with my new alcohol markers and made notes about the different colours I used so I won't forget when it comes time to colouring them in the future. So I got to play even if I don't have a finished project today.