Saturday Productivity

Saturday was one of those incredibly productive days, where we got a lot done and were, thankfully, not too exhausted at the end of it all. It makes for a wonderful feeling of accomplishment! rackham painted the ceiling in the living room and over the entryway (something I couldn't really help with, because I still can't do that sort of work above my head), but it looks amazing! I can't believe what a difference some good paint can make and I sort of wish we'd done this years ago.

Even better, he got a coat of primer on one of the very last bits of dark brown wood left in the house. ( Rolling away that dark brown. )

We also ended up taking two loads of junk to the transfer station. Wow. When I was younger, I don't think it ever would have occurred to me that it would be possible to get that much satisfaction out of getting rid of things. There's a whole lot more room in the garage now, making it easier to maneuver in there so we should be able to get even more stuff sorted and gone.

Crossposted from my LIvejournal

Making Sunday Dinner

So last Friday I made chicken Kelaguen, which left me with a full chicken carcass after I pulled off as much meat as I could. I was actually on the ball and managed to get it into a crockpot that night with the usual accompaniments and let it simmer overnight (it ended up being about 18 hours) to make an absolutely incredible chicken stock. I froze half, but with the other half, on Sunday night I whipped up some homemade chicken noodle soup!

( Dropping in the noodles. )

I realized this morning that I'd actually posted a photo of my homemade egg noodles the last time I did a Photo-a-Day challenge (it was one of my photos in October of 2009, but that was a photo of them after they'd been cut and while they were "curing," so I figure I'm still good!

Crossposted from my Livejournal