Pandora's SCARY Pantry and the fun that follows.........................

Joe and I are growing  tired of our long, cold windy winter.  WE are never sure if April/May are harder on us or if the actual October through March with the severe frigid temperatures and snow mixed in with the wind is what 'does us in'..............I think this year it is the April/May wet, cold, still frozen ground, brown hillside that is testing our patience.  Brings a whole new meaning to WAITING!  Joe is waiting for the snow to melt up north (4 hours plus north) so he can begin his trapper cabin buildling adventure.  Much prep work to do before that begins.  My adventure is to learn HOW to be in our 'close knit quarters' in our log cabin with Joe pacing.........and I mean "picking up the pacing" as he tries to decide if THIS IS THE DAY (yes, that the Lord has made.....but isn't the weather day Joe desires!!!)  that he will haul the camper up to the land 4 hours north  so it is there, ready to sleep in when 'things get rolling" up there around the trapper cabin building project!

Joe is toying with the idea of heading north with the camper or should he stay here because it's so cold/has a headwind driving over four hours and can't do much once he's there.  I have plans that have me heading into town and decide this time (a new discovery.....I don't have to alter my plan because someone comes up with a plan last minute .....I have choices!!! and this has been a revelation for me.....no one else got upset if I stayed with my original plan, but I sure got upset having to change my original plan many times.or missing out on THEIR plan because later it was better than the one I had planned!   ..UGH.....) I decide that I want to keep my plan and Joe isn't for sure he's leaving anyway and if I stay home watching him work through whether he will drive north or stay here and pace, it could be 'dangerous' for the both of us! ha! 

About an hour after I'm in town Joe calls to tell me he's headed north with the camper.  I know he is happy and I know too he will get to see our granddaughter. NOW true confessions....this used to SO set me off..........I would say outloud it was OK that I wasn't going.....or say "It is OK that you are going" and then within a few hours I would find myself in quite a funk about it all and for years really not know what was actually occurring...........but I sure made sure Joe knew it was ocurring or that it HAD occurred.. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

with new technology I FACETIME with family! (well if we are in town)..we don't have good cell tower reception at the cabin...go figure.....I can Facetime in the boonies up north but not 30 minutes from Moose Jaw. (Maybe I will move to that trapper cabin some day!)
I was  SO lucky that Chelsea and Pepper were home and Pepper was awake and I got some giggles, kisses blown to me and just watched her a bit through our cell phones and got MY PEPPER FIX knowing Joe was going to get his too!  IN PERSON!

I returned to the cabin and it was cold, windy (Oh yeah I've already shared that weather report haven't I?).
I tried reading and it wasn't working......the book is good, but my mind was on "how is Joe doing pulling this camper he's never pulled that far before and of course creating many as Alan says "worst case scenarios" in my head about what can go wrong and I'm not there to ..........to.................to help? Hmmm Help is stretching it .....but I could be there....SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo

the next thing I know..... I have gotten into our small pantry and decide after living here 4 years maybe I need to check the dates on cans of things in case there are some that are out dated...................THIS IS WHERE I MEET PANDORA!!!!  Well, I meet her PANTRY!!!!

MEET PANDORA........FOR SOME REASON I THOUGHT SHE WOULD BE MORE ATTRACTIVE......SHE LOOKS A BIT RUGGED HERE I THINK.

OK boys and girls this is NOT my pantry but close to the right size/mine is dark wood (logs) and I have pouches on the door like this  BUT mine is NOT this organized..........YET anyway.  I begin to find SO many cans that are outdated.  I stopped to think HOW CAN THIS HAVE HAPPENED...I realize when we moved to the country with the possibility of being snowed in for days, perhaps no electricity at times (which has happened for a few hours but NOT DAYS) I think I was stashing  cans of things away 'just in case' SO we wouldn't DIE!  Remember I'm a city girl (plus a girl whose mother had enough in her pantry to feed an army as they say and probably still does!)....I was taught to "always be prepared" even if I didn't know what I was being prepared for............SO I had 2 bags of EXPIRED FOOD ITEMS! BUT..................I found I won't have to purchase pasta of any kind for the rest of the year and can have salsa and chips (I will have to buy chips) probably for the rest of our life and TUNA............oh and bags of mixed soup beans!!!  Like I said "i DISCOVERED PANDORA'S PANTRY"

 

 

 

 

OOOPS!!!  A bin on the floor full of coke/7-up cans you know "just in case" which I promptly forgot 4 years ago was still there!  GOOD GRIEF CHARLIE BROWN.............some were totally empty....how does that work? very gooey....i had to laugh as I was emptying them in the sink and tossing them into the garbage.  Also wondering "how did I let this get so bad and NOT notice it?"  I was SO glad to have this project to keep my mind occupied and glad I had glasses to help me SEE the "expired dates" and then..............it was time..........................................................................WHOOOO WHOOOOOO........I had to GO FIND MY HAT! 

IT WAS PARTY TIME ...(yes some of the best parties are in your own company...ha ha ha) ............THE KENTUCKY DERBY........ I opted to cheer for a horse called "INTENSE HOLIDAY" BECAUSE  I SOOOOOOOO need one!  The winning horse had such great Colors though....that i was OK losing to California Chrome! (did you know chrome is a word used to refer to the white marks on the horse's face?)

From Horses to Hoop!!!!!  CONGRATS TO THE OKC THUNDER !  Nothing like a great performance by a team in Oklahoma to help me forget my scary moments inside Pandora's Pantry......I can hear her saying "Ginny that is YOUR PANTRY.....I had NOTHING to do with it!"

Last but not least..MORE OKIE entertainment............knowing Joe would NOT  desire to watch this movie......in a way I think he might say he has 'lived it a bit' I had to watch it for the sites of Pawhuska and Bartlesville AND though there weren't as many as I expected........and the topic of the movie isn't pretty...........it is full of those lines, scenes, behaviors that a good English Lit teacher would use to get us conversing about 'what was really happening here"............and having watched it years ago would have gotten me BACK into another Pandora's Pantry..............instead I celebrated a clean Pantry w/out EXPIRED DATES AND GOOEY POP and celebrated letting go of ...............................OLD TAPES and OLD DATES .   I HAVE PUT A REMINDER IN MY PHONE CALENDAR TO CHECK THE PANTRY ITEMS IN ABOUT 6 MONTHS.  OR NOT!

 

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Sleep awaits...............after a full day that basically created itself...............and I'm learning from my famiy THESE days that create themselves are some of the BEST DAYS !!!!