Wow! What a busy weekend. Remember back when our water heater exploded and ruined our rug downstairs? Well we'd had that rug since we'd moved in, so we had no idea what was under it. unfortunately it was this:
This is the tiny, tiny "room" where our rabbit and litter box live. Don't ask me why it's even there. It's obviously not a closet, though it's the size of a large one. It isn't big enough to be a small office, we tried that. But, hey, it's just the size for a really huge rabbit cage and a cat litter box for three, so who am I to complain?
Anyway, here's what it looks like now:
Obviously it still needs trim, and a new paint job, but man, is that floor better or what? Can you imagine having to deal with that awful tile in your bedroom? Yech. Thank goodness Mr. B. is handy. He put in all the flooring in the downstairs for just the cost of the flooring. A little trim, a little paint, and we'll be good to go!
Oh, and we got the groceries delivered on Sunday! It was fabulous! We put the order in on Friday and on Sunday, bright and early, they were delivered and brought straight to our table. Even better, they were packed well. I usually like to bag my own stuff, because I'm a little anal about not having my cookies sitting on top of my package of raw chicken. I'm judgmental like that (and yes, someone actually bagged those things together once.) I will absolutely be doing this again! For the $7 it cost, it was completely worth it (I would have paid $20!).
Menu for the week:
Trying lots of recipes this week!
Sunday: Made fish and chips with hushpuppies (though the "chips" were frozen french fries, so I could spend time with the fish!) Recipes for this will be up this week, because it was really, really good!
Monday: Spaghetti with Chicken Parmesan with marinara and a drizzle of cream sauce. Served with homemade Italian (if it turns out!) and a green salad.
Tuesday: Lemon Fusili with Arugula - this is one of those fancy sounding titles. It's just pasta, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, and arugula tossed with a lemony sauce. Tues. and Wed. Mr. B. is working late, so I'm trying 2 new recipes that I think will save well, so he can eat when he gets here.
Wednesday: Mustard Chicken Salad - Many of the same ingredients as the fusili recipe, which is what sold me. I can use up all the ingredients that I bought, but make two meals with very different flavors. The mustard chicken salad also has cherry tomatoes and broccoli, but it adds some great roasted chicken chunks and a tangy mustard sauce.
Thursday: Roasting a chicken and a pan of roasted veggies. Yum!
Friday is, of course, pizza night.
Today I am off to fill holes in the walls, so that we can get cracking on the painting this weekend! Got a couple of places to patch (kids and doorknobs *sigh*).
Have a great day!
11 Comments:
Enjoy filling the holes///How come it tends to be that women end up with that job?
I hope the weather there is as nice as it is here...I was just enjoying the sunshine
That was awful floor! Nice difference. With all the cooking and home improvements, you keep busy! You could make money as a Wife For Hire. LOL
Great job your husband did on the floor. Could he come do our's? We need to replace our carpet with pergo or something this year or see if the carpet cleaner could get the stains out. Those fish n chips look so yummy. I want to have them for breakfast! :)
The floor looks great!
Also, it's nice to know that I'm not the only anal person in the world that bags the groceries to avoid tomatoes in the same bag as the chicken! That drives me nuts!
Nothing better than a handy hubby! The room looks a lot better indeed, happy that that you had everything set up so fast! Your fish looks so yummy (I just loooove anything from the sea, I'd eat the shells if I could), and your week's recipes makes me drool, as usual!LOL
Hope everything is ok on the health side by now!
Kisssses!
The new floor loks great. The menu sounds wonderful. When I worked in the grocery stores I had a bagger put the eggs on the bottom. Her explaination - I thought that's why they are packed in cardboard. Thanks for the encouragement on my blog.
Glad the grocery delivery worked out well! We have the same problem with baggers. The one last shopping trip put the OJ and yogurt in our cold bag when the ice cream we had didn't make it in.
The floor looks nice! And the recipes sound great.
The floor looks great!
...and your meals are makin'me hungry! mmmm - hushpuppies!
all the food sounds yummy and great job on the floor..
Happy renovating!!!!!
The new flooring looks great! Awesome job! And will be easy to clean up scattered cat & rabbit litter, too.
Isn't it scary what you find when you start pulling up stuff for renovations? When we had the sewer backup in our basement, we found not one, but two layers of ugly tile on the floor.
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