A Different Kind of Wednesday!

This was the first Wednesday this year that we have NOT spent the day with the grand quads!
Granddad is still contagious - I guess. I forgot to ask the doctor how LONG he would be infectious.
He is improving but still spent most of this day in bed - in the guest room.
I am still battling with my allergies and do NOT want anything else!

I emptied the dishwasher today and there were only bowls and soup spoons in it!
Oh, and a couple of ladles along with several water glasses!

We used PLATES this afternoon when we had sandwiches instead of soup!

Making progress!

I have been meaning to clean out the fridge for over a week!

ALL of my sisters have CLEAN refrigerators! How do they DO that???

My daughter in law, Leigh Ann, has a clean one, too. I always gaze admiringly at them when I visit their fridges for a bottle of water or a glass of tea.

My daughters tend to have fridges that look much like mine!

I wiped every inch and downsized 'things.' We always buy mayo in a HUGE container. I had already transferred it to a plastic container formerly holding powdered cream and when THAT was fairly empty, I put the rest in a plastic bowl with a lid. There is Jello in a butter tub and jalapeno peppers in a yogurt container.

Is it any wonder that we lose track of what's in what????

Today I wrote the contents on the commercial containers - just so we won't 'lose' them!

What was Louis Dean doing while I was cleaning like a mad woman with her hair on fire?

Lounging in the bed with a book.

Now Louis Dean is NOT a reader! However, he is beginning to feel better - see how he is in bed but wearing his overalls? 'The Shack' is his all time favorite book and I read it out loud a few years ago.

He likes it so much he is willing to read it again by himself!

I snuck down the hall and snapped this picture of him without him even noticing.

Back to the kitchen I went!

I always do the routine things - empty the dishwasher, wipe the counters, sweep the floor every day.

Today I did the EXTRA bit of cleaning that makes all the difference.

I did this needlework in 1999 and remember it well. Amber was swimming with The Pirouettes of Texas and I was sitting on the deck stitching. I washed this - it was beyond DIRTY!!! - and then stapled it back on my trash container. One of us has set an iron skillet on it and I could NOT get that part clean no matter how hard I scrubbed. Still, I love it!

As I cleaned today, I listened to these classical music Cd's.

Remember when we had cassette tapes???

Just as the Cd's were coming out, my daughter, Summer, gave me this five album set.

It has remained my very favorite!

My stereo holds 5 Cd's! Win! WIN!!!

I had several candles lit today as I cleaned room to room.

THIS is the one in the kitchen.

The day is done. We tend to finish our days earlier when we are not feeling well.

It's time to sip my wine and wind down this day!