Sunday's tale

I got up Sunday morning, skipped breakfast and went right to work. I'll have a big brunch later, I've decided. Today's emphasis will be to clean the house from top to bottom as well as watering the front lawn!

I started in the living room, dusted everything, vacuuming the rug and used the vacuum's attachment to clean the cat hair off the couch, the loveseat and the chairs. Then I used my dust mop (sprayed with End Dust) and mopped every nook and cranny. Now, you need to remember that throughout the morning, I am also running outside every time the timer goes off, shutting off the water, moving the sprinkler, turning the water back on and resetting the timer.

Next, I moved the chairs out of the kitchen and swept, then mopped the downstairs bath room, the downstairs itself and the kitchen. Now I'm trapped in the bedrooms until the floors dry. So, I cleaned them both (dusting, sweeping, mopping, etc.) The biggest challenge was picking up all the tools, screws, and miscellaneous hardware that seemed to be everywhere.

Now the floors are dry, it's almost noon and I am STARVING! So, I made my grandson Joe's favorite, white sausage gravy and biscuits and ate way too much of it. While I was thinking about it, I went outside and cut most of the rosemary and fennel, made two bundles of them and hung them in the kitchen to dry.

I started shelling 1 1/2 pounds of shrimp. I thought I'd make shrimp bisque for Lu's dinner tomorrow. That is about a two hour process that I believe I explained in the Blog when I made it the first time, so I won't go over it again. But, my favorite part is adding the 1/4 cup of brandy and lighting it on fire. That's cool!!!

My neighbor came over with three green tomatoes for me, so when the soup was done, I decided to make fried green tomatoes for dinner. I sliced them and put them in buttermilk, then mixed a cup of flour with a cup of cornmeal and some salt and pepper. I heated about 1/4 inch of oil in a cast iron pan and, after dredging them in the flour/cornmeal mix, fried them up. They were definitely tart, I'll tell you that!

So, it's now after 8:00 PM, I've accomplished all my missions and I'm tired, so I quit for the night. There was NOTHING on TV, so I read my book until I fell asleep.