- I officially have 5 weeks left to finish out the school year! I will have one holiday and two other days that I will be off during that time. I can do it. Lily is starting her new summer semester next week. Kendall has three weeks and a week of exams. Zach has 4 weeks. Kendall and Zach will both be heading to camp during my last week of work.
- I have alot of things I want to get accomplished during the summer including re-stocking our freezer and pantries if needed. I purchased 50# of flour today to get the process started. I am hoping that by spreading out the expense we can maintain and even lower our grocery budget for the year.
- We plan to purchase and receive a whole cow in two weeks. This means that I have been spending some time trying to clean out and re-arrange our freezers. Currently our chest freezer is unplugged. I am working on the freezers in the house as well as continuing to eat food from the freezer in the building. We wil be having steaks for dinner tomorrow just for that reason.
- I brought out a whole chicken last week. I cooked it on Thursday and even Lily said it was some of the best she has eaten. I decided to start our stock up this weekend. I cooked chicken stock in my roaster oven Thursday night. I have been working on pressure canning it this evening. We will end up with 5 quarts and 25 pints of chicken stock!
- We will be having the floor measured in the kitchen and dining room this weekend. This has led to us cleaning the canning closet, kitchen pantry and most of the laundry room! Organized stuff makes me happy!