I woke up early today and stayed up until almost noon. I lay down to take a little nap and fell asleep for two hours. I had made some tuna salad for the Beast's lunch which he thought I didn't make when he found two unopened cans of tuna on the counter. He saw I was asleep when he got home from church so he didn't even bother to find out and he obviously never opened up the fridge either. Sheesh. Men!
In fact, he didn't even eat any until it was almost dinner time so I didn't even make us anything else. BUT....he decided to use the two very overripe bananas we had to make some banana bread. The strange thing was that it was sweeter than normal and it had to be because the ripe bananas were sweeter than the ones he has been using that he considered *ripe*.
The Beast made the banana bread in the glass bread pan that we have (he doesn't usually). You will never guess what happened? He dropped it (after removing the banana bread, thank goodness) on our kitchen tile and it broke into about a billion pieces. First, he swept up all the pieces he could find. Then he gets out the hand-held vacuum with it's long snozzle and starts vacuuming the entire kitchen, inch by inch, with it. THEN...he takes out the regular vacuum and goes over the whole area once again. He inspects it before putting all the furniture and the garbage can back in place and putting the broom and dustpan back. THEN...he takes out the Swiffer wet mop and cleans the floor. Why did he go through all this? Have you forgotten we own a dog that is his best friend? As if all that is not bad enough, he finds a large sliver of glass in the living room that he hadn't vacuumed so the whole process starts over again...except for the Swiffer wet mop part. Can't have Baron stepping on any glass and bleeding all over the place. It's happened before and it's always a mess when that occurs. But he didn't expect ME to clean it up at least.
The Princess dropped by (without any kids) to bring the Beast a few frozen, chocolate-dipped and then decorated strawberries for him. I took one and she made a laughing comment about the fact that I took the ONLY one that had the chopped nuts decorating it. I just laughed, too, and said I had no idea he wanted it. He usually eats stuff like that first when he thinks that *I* might take one...LOL.
A while back, the Beast threw out my pitcher when he was *re-doing* my kitchen when I was too injured after surgery to know what he was up to. Today, guess what he did? No, he didn't get a pitcher like I wanted. I wanted it for ice tea. He buys me a glass sun tea jar. Oh, but he does buy a huge, gallon size thing with a spout on it for ice water that I could barely squeeze into my fridge. I'm not sure if it was sweating from having ice in it or if it might be leaking (slowly) but I have to check again tomorrow. I cleaned it up when I discovered the water dripped down from the container to the bottom of the fridge.
I don't mind the sun tea jar because I always had one in Florida (another one of the things that disappeared on me between our house in Port Charlotte and moving into this house). But the other container? Tits on a bull as far as I am concerned. Buy us some ice on occasion since our ice maker seems to have lamed out on us but we sure don't need a container for ice water. Yet that is what he wanted. I would just have filled it with water and let it chill down in the fridge. But that's me. Practical.
The Beast bought us a new Swiffer wet mop and, when I asked why, he said the auto-spray had stopped working. It probably got clogged and you really can't get at the parts to clean it so I knew why he'd gotten it. He was apparently taking the bottle of cleaner off it, spreading it around the floor and then mopping it up. That is not only wasteful but it defeats the whole purpose of the mop's convenience. There's no way you can spread that cleaner out without the sprayer as evenly and economically. He probably should have done it much sooner because it explained to me why he was going through so many bottles of the cleaner the past couple months.
He told me that his knee seems to be getting worse. Although the ointment he's been using does give him some temporary relief, he wakes up during the night in pain and he's also been getting deeper pain and discomfort. So I am definitely making an appointment for him with our doctor in the morning. Hopefully, he will take an x-ray of it to check for arthritis before he just refers him to an orthopedist. He needs to find out why he's in pain and soon.
The Beast and I discussed what to do about the cat that has been raiding the bird feeder and emptying the bird seed all over the place. I suggested gluing the plexiglas sides into place but he didn't want to do that because he needed to remove one of them in order to screw the feeder to the railing. Then I suggested that we leave the spotlight on that lights up the deck damn near like daylight. It won't bother our sleeping and won't bother the neighbors either. It's not like we have anyone living close to us in back. Our next door neighbor (the only one we have) leaves his on at night and we don't even notice it unless we go outside. His lights up his deck, too.
The Beast isn't sure that would work but he says we may give it a try before he resorts to hanging the feeder back up on the shepherd's crook. We'll see if he really does it. Leave the spotlight on, I mean. I really would like to try that first.
Oh, we tried some of the Kauai coffee today with the water that we are getting since the Beast changed the filter. It was amazing! It really IS the new filter that has made the difference in the taste of our coffee. You wouldn't think that could make such a spectacular difference in the taste of something. But it obviously does.
The Beast took his bath (for his knee) early today, which surprised me. He's such a creature of habit.... AND, he also went to bed while it was still light out. I don't think it was even 7:30pm yet. But he sure messed ME up. I read Facebook to catch up on everything that was posted today and went out to get more coffee. When I discovered the pot empty, I was a bit disgusted because I didn't want to make another pot so late....but then I looked at the time and it was just going on 9pm! LOL! Too funny for words. I know I will be up until around midnight so I went and made my pot of coffee. I'm enjoying my second (or is it third?) cup now.... Oh, don't worry. I can drink coffee until I go to bed and go right to sleep. Been doing that for years...just ask my kids.
Oh...Cee called me to tell me something strange going on at her apartment. Her patio/porch/terrace area has two chairs, a small table and a couple artificial plants that includes some flowers. It seems a bird has taken up residency in one of the flower arrangements and is now nesting. A girlfriend of Cee's had seen the two birds flying into the pot and thought they were making a nest but Cee thought they were just grabbing some of the artificial straw that was included in the arrangement. Turns out she was wrong. She moved the flowers apart and discovered the nest, to her amazement. Now the mother bird is sitting in it all the time (that she notices although I am sure her mate relieves her at times so she can feed). At first, when Cee came out outside, the bird would fly away until she went back in but now she is either used to her or she has finished laying her eggs and won't leave them at all. I think I am going to run over to Cee's for a bit tomorrow and see if I can get a gander at the nest, if I can. It's not every day you see birds nesting inside an artificial flower arrangement! LOL. But, it's definitely a safe place for the nest. No predators are going to show up, I'm sure.
Time to get this posted now. Love you all. Hope your weekend went well and that all the fathers had a very nice Father's Day today. ***Hugs***
HINT: To keep candles from dripping, soak them in a strong salt-water solution after purchasing. To make sure y our salt water is as strong as possible, heat up some water and add salt until it won't dissolve anymore-then you'll know the water is completely saturated. Leave your candles in this solution for two hours, them remove and dry.
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