Organic Produce Arrived

The nicest lady named Areesta arrived from Orlando Organics around 11AM with the big box of produce I ordered. All is all organically grown, and most from Florida. I put it all on the counter and took a picture. The items are random, I do not get to choose, except I asked for the persimmons to send to my mom. It all looks so yummy, but is this worth $50 ? Considering how difficult it is to find all organically grown (no bad pesticides) produce, and those in the grocery store are expensive, I am guessing the price is right. I'll continue to get the weekly delivery and then decide.

Back first, left to right: 32 oz. fresh squeezed orange juice, romaine lettuce, 10 carrots, collard greens, bok choy, spinach, eggs, 2 cucumbers, 3 ruby red grapefruit, 4 granny smith apples, 7 bananas, grape tomatoes, clover sprouts, 4 cara cara oranges, 4 anjou pears, a Tommy Atkins mango, 5 russett potatoes, a Hass avacado, 3 yellow onions, white button mushrooms, and 2 persimmons. Replacing the blueberries (they ran out) was the bok choy, which I've never cooked before, but found a good sounding recipe online.

Pam's Mom

I pulled the first layer of stuff out of the laundry room, vacuum cleaner, Swiffer cleaners, things I use regularly, and was just about to tackle the second layer - the old stuff - when the phone rang. My friend Pam was stuck out of town and her 82 year old mother, who recently moved to her home after spinal surgery (and a few weeks of recovery rehab), was going to be home alone. I hurried over and spent the day assembling the most difficult puzzle with Pam's mother. I would have lost my religion in frustration, but it was The Last Supper, 2000 tiny pieces. I cooked lunch and supper, and after Pam got home with her husband at 9PM, I hung out a couple of more hours visiting.

Mark put everything I pulled out of the laundry room back IN, so today I start all over again.

Oh, an interesting tidbit...the cold weather on the east coast of the US has really made things chilly. Daytona, FL actually had colder temperatures than Anchorage, Alaska early this morning!

I love everything Swiffer

Has anyone ever tried to refill a Swiffer WetJet bottle? I tried using my undercounter jar opener, but it just scraped the lid up, but I'd rather save a few bucks and mix my own floor cleaner. I looked in www.momsbudget.com, and learned this:

They don't want everyone to stop buying their cleaning solution! You can run the top of the bottle under hot water then pop the lid off.

I'll give you an update on how this works later. In that site is also gives instructions for knitting and for crocheting cotton pads to use instead of buying the disposables.

To save FOUR lousy bucks, I bought a different brand - the Clorox ReadyMop, instead of the Wetjet for my NC home. What a huge mistake! Don't do it man! I put it away with the bottle of fluid attached, and the mop-head part on the floor, and all the cleaning fluid ran out! I'll keep my eye open for coupons and Swiffer sales to replace that crummy mop.

After filling the bottle of wetjet solution with Mr. Clean, I plan to mercy dump my laundry room - totally empty out my laundry room and only keep what I really need. Oh goodie.