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Frugal Friday

Posted in budgets, California, camping, cancer, cooking, freezer cooking, husband, Myeloma, Pantry, swimming, Walking by

It was a frugalish week. After swimming on Tuesday I stopped at TJs for a few things like eggs, sandwich bread, odds and ends, and wine. I need to go there tomorrow and pick up some stuff to take camping. There’s not a TJs in the whole of Lake Tahoe. There is a Grocery Outlet though. I spent just over $100. Other than that no grocery shopping. I think the way to save money(and it is working) on groceries is to stay out of Safeway, or even our Holiday Market is pretty high priced. Of course, sometimes I need something and it makes sense to get it here rather than driving out to get it. So I think I’m going to plan regular TJs, Winco, and then Costco for the bigger bulk items like coffee.

Today is B’s birthday so we’ll all celebrate with some cake and take out pizza. Another turn around the sun!! Happy Birthday to the love of my life.

We had a nice walk with only a few people there. It does really bug me though when people do not use a flashlight when it’s still dark-ish out.

Then I came home and made a loaf of pumpkin bread to freeze. I had enough pureed pumpkin left to make a batch of pumpkin muffins too.

Later I’m heading into town to go to CVS to hopefully pick up my dexamethasone. There’s been some confusion about where to send it and now I’m not sure if it’ll be there. I figured I’d better go in and check rather than call. The infusion center called and I have all my October dates scheduled. He wants 4 weeks on and 1 week off. Not sure why but in the long run it probably doesn’t matter. We canceled our mid October camping trip because we were going to leave the day I have an appt with the Dr. and then infusion after. There’s no sense going if I’ll have just gotten the shot and then Dex. We had a reservation for 4 nights so 3 of those days wouldn’t really make sense as those are the days I’m not 100%. That’s ok. We’re keeping the Napa reservation in November. I’ll start my next cycle that week so it’ll just need to be later in the week as we’re booked Sun- Thurs. Although, I think we’ll probably leave Wednesday so I can get the appt on Thursday.

Our fall weather is definitely here. Very cool mornings, nice days with warmish temperatures.

Here’s how the pantry is looking. I haven’t done another pressure canned meal as I don’t have a lot of room. When we get back I’ll make something to add. just look at the color of those tomatoes!!! The applesauce is from our tree this year. I still have half a box to do. All the rest of the tomatoes even the green ones I’m putting in a box in the closet to ripen. As they ripen I’m just bagging them and putting them in the freezer to process at a later date.

Simple Sunday

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It is so humid. The temperature isn’t all that bad but the cloud cover is making it very humid. ugh….

We had a good walk this morning but again somewhat busy. I suppose they will fall away by fall. ( ha!!! pun!!) No really, most people don’t keep going past summer. AH wasn’t there again so that’s kinda weird.

Tomorrow, Monday is the day I don’t walk or usually do any exercise. I just need a break. I still wake up early (5am) but lay there looking out the window.

I went to the Anytime gym this morning and it was not too busy. After that, I went over to Target to pick up a couple of tank tops to sleep in. It’s so hot but I still need something to hold the jugs in. Whew,….TMI…

So I came home and made zucchini bread with the farm zucchini.

I still have 3 more so I may make one tomorrow to freeze. Tonight I’m defrosting a cheese lasagna and I’ll make a farm salad. It’s so hard to cook right now in this heat. We’ve been eating sandwiches and salads. Hopefully, it’ll be better this week.

I think the Martha Stewart recipe is better.

My brother came over to visit. His birthday is this week. He’ll be 60 and still works a very physically demanding job but really looks great. He takes really good care of himself. Unlike me ,who loves wine, he doesn’t drink very often because he’s diabetic. Still ,it’s only him and me now. I dont’ count the half sister as she only let herself be known a few years ago after the adoption papers were unsealed. This is a very touchy subject with me since my mother did not want the adoption known but NJ laws allowed it to be released 50 years later. This period of our lives was so awful. My mother was pregnant ( and told me, it was a tumor, really, how stupid do she think I was)??. She was a relapsed Catholic and never got over the guilt. Then 1 month to the day Philip was killed in VietNam. ( January 7 ,1968. She never really recovered and died 10 years later. So I have a lot of baggage attached to this. Still, she is quite weird. I personally don’t want anything to do with her but my brother feels, I think, obligated. Oh well, I don’t want to say more.

Here are some flowers from the garden.

Here’s how the pantry looks with the newly added vegetable soup.