March 23, 2011

  • Is It A Garage Or A Grocery Store In The Making?


    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    The Beast has been really listening to various economists and reading a lot of things online and has decided that prices will be going up A LOT in the near future so he decided to *stock up*.  Wow....he really has.  I guess I haven't been playing close enough attention to his various sprees.  It's obvious to me now that he didn't bring many things into the house but put them right on the shelves that he built out in the garage.  Good thing they are sturdy.  He has cases of soups, vegetables, beans, rice, corned beef hash, olives, peanut butter, oils, vinegar, sardines (his favorite snack), jellies, cereals, tea bags....it's amazing.  I wouldn't have realized it but he asked me for some help when he decided to straighten up the shelves and get the goods in some kind of order so we could easily find anything we might need.

    He also asked me what else I thought he should be stocking up on and I told him sugar, flour, coffee, creamer and some of those canned potatoes that we like to fry up sometimes.  We have air-tight containers for the sugar and flour and I used up what other air-tight containers I had for the beans (black, northern and split pea) and they held anywhere from 10-14 packages of beans, depending on the size of them.  When I say he *stocked up*, I really mean it. 

    When I stepped back and really looked at it all, I got the feeling that our neighbors will think we are going to be opening up a grocery store soon. All but one shelf is really filled and layered.  I told the Beast if he's stocking up, get some toilet paper.  That will take care of us at both ends.    He even has a bag of potatoes hanging from a hook in a net bag and another of onions.  Oh, they only have about 10 lbs. in each but it shows he's thinking seriously about this.  I just shake my head.

    At least he's FINALLY making plans to erect the flower garden because he was figuring out how many cement blocks he would need and what the volume of it would be inside so he would get enough soil.  He even figured out how much of the heavy plastic he would need to keep the weeds from coming up from underneath so I won't have to worry about that for a while.

    I can't wait to see the happiness on Chewlee's face when we can plant the seeds for the flowers.  I'm going to put my purple rose bush out there, too.  It won't produce this year but will next year.  I'm also going to transplant one of my lilac bushes out there while they are still small.

    Well, that's all for today.  Love you all and I wish you great weather for the rest of the week if you aren't already enjoying it.  Take care, be happy and do something nice for someone today....just for the hell of it!