Maybe this isn’t weird or strange but these things happen to me so often. I spent most of the day in the kitchen. I cooked breakfast, then stirred up another batch of bran muffins, which required milling three kinds of wheat/grain; then I milled the wheat for two loaves of bread and got that going; then I chopped enough onions to fill three freeze dryer trays for the next load in the freezer. There’s already one tray that’s filled with mushrooms.
Then I cooked dinner (chicken fried steak, milk gravy, green beans, potatoes and coleslaw). Then I got the muffin batter out and baked 30 muffins. Then I cleaned up the monumental mess I had in the kitchen. I wanted to feed the sourdough. I have a new sourdough container that’s larger than what I’ve been using and I want to make sourdough pizza crust, sourdough English muffins and sourdough bread so I fed 120 grams of starter. I was going to dump the discard because I wasn’t going to use it, then I decided . . heck, I’ll just feed it in a second jar and have enough to make a couple of other things I may want to make. I was putting some things in the fridge and there was another jar of starter that hadn’t been fed in a while so I got it out and fed it. I went downstairs thinking . . I just wasted flour feeding so much starter but . . it’s ok.
I opened the tablet to check mail, messages, etc. and I had this message:
Long story but the short version is: My friend’s mom is coming to visit next week. The mom cannot have gluten but she can eat sourdough. Friend has tried to learn to make it and hasn’t had great results. Friend has a house FULL of children . . I don’t know how she gets anything done! She offered to pay me or trade eggs for bread. I said no to both but told her I would make sure they had plenty of sourdough bread. She assured me one loaf would be fine and she would keep it in a safe place so no one else could eat it. I told her they would have enough bread next week that everyone could have what they want, I will bring more mid-week. Cross that off your list, my friend . . I’ve got the bread covered for you.
How neat is it that I stood up there and fed all that starter, feeling like maybe I was wasting flour because it wouldn’t all get used but God knew I needed a lot of fed starter for next week.
Pretty neat, huh?
Now . . this is really strange – downstairs in the garage we have a fridge and a freezer. The freezer, of course, is full – so full that when you open the door . . stand back because something is going to fall out and you have to hope it isn’t a big ham or a roast! I went to put the trays of onions in the fridge freezer and the big freezer has been moved!! It normally sits straight – back side to the wall. It had been moved to where the back was angled towards the wall. I asked Vince if he had moved the freezer. No. I don’t even think I could move it if I tried. I think Vince thought I had lost my mind. He came down and he kept looking at it. He said “Has it always been that way?” NO! It wasn’t that way yesterday because one of the risers for my freeze dryer trays fell and I had to wedge my hand between the fridge and freezer to get it. With the freezer moved, there was about 10″ between the fridge and freezer where it had been about 3″. Vince said he had a hard time moving it back but he did. Tell me . . how did that happen?? Maybe I don’t want to know. You can bet that when I get up in the morning, the first thing I’m going to do is check the location/position of that freezer.
Deb says
I had a real chuckle over the freezer that moved itself – thank you! Brought back a memory of my grandmothers freezers. Both were in her separate garage – 2 large stand up ones. Both blew the doors open – we discovered it one day when we stopped in to see her…she’d never defrosted them! Both were solid ice inside with meat packages everywhere. When we checked out what happened we found meat stored in there for over 20 years – and then went downstairs into the area under the cabin (behind a locked door). It was like going into Safeway – shelves with neatly stacked food — but the food had blown out the bottom of the cans. The only cans that were still intact were the gallon cans of honey – still looking brand new (except for tons of dust). Those purchases were made 20 years before, too. I bet the rats there just loved her little supermarket there – it must have been a rat smorgasbord for weeks. We won’t talk about the 50 gallon drums of gasoline, the WWII rifle oil cans, etc. The stories I could tell you…..good heavens! Anyhow, thank you for the laugh, Judy! Please let us know if you ever find out what caused the freezers to walk away? : ) Deb
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Oh, my! Your grandmother and I would get along well. Chad THINKS that’s how my food storage room looks but mine is pretty organized and, while I’d like to say everything gets rotated at least every two years but last year I did find a jar of taco soup I had canned that was dated 2013. We ate it and it was fine and I cannot imagine how that happened because everything else in the case (12 jars per case) was dated within the past 12 months.
At one point, I would not buy a frost free freezer but then decided they weren’t so bad. Two of mine are frost free and two have to be defrosted and I do not like that job at all.
I can’t believe she stored gasoline in 50 gallon drums. We’ve gone mostly to solar or propane generators because Vince won’t store gas.
I’ve walked into the garage at least a dozen times today and every time, I glance over at that freezer and so far, it’s where it’s supposed to be. I did think about coming back inside with a scary face and telling Vince it was moved again but decided I should not do that.
Vivian K Oaks says
I haven’t checked my starter for months… Add it to the list of things I need to do. Right now (3 in the morning) I’m sitting in the ER, waiting to be called to go back to sit with my husband. 2nd time in 6 weeks I’ve had to call the ambulance because he couldn’t breathe…. Pneumonia…really deep. He was in the hospital for a week last time. It’s worse this time. In less than 2 days from when he started not feeling well, his oxygen level was down to 68. We aren’t getting any younger!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Oh, no! Please update me when you can. Praying for you both. Everything is more serious as we get older.
Diane Kummelman says
Love that you have enough to feed the neighbor’s family! We should all be so generous!
Julie A Hutcherson says
2.2 earthquake in Highland AR 2/11 at almost 11 pm
Rebecca L says
-Interesting thought…not that quake was the cause, but there are earthquakes just about anywhere. But…only one freezer moved? This really is mysterious! Judy, please tell us if you find an explanation! (Which you may already have done since I’m reading this so belatedly)
judy.blog@gmail.com says
So far, there’s been no explanation. Between you and me (and everyone except Vince), I believe he was in there doing something and leaned against without even realizing it. There’s no way I can move it (I tried) so I know I didn’t do it. Just that day I had dropped one of the risers for the freeze dryer trays and it went between the fridge and freezer. I didn’t know if I could reach it so I tried to move the freezer and couldn’t. There are some things on top of the fridge so I didn’t want to move it but I was able to reach the dropped piece without moving either one. It was the next day or two days later when I noticed the freezer sitting at an angle. Weird.
Rebecca L says
That does seem like a reasonable explanation.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Yes. It didn’t move itself. There’s no way I can start to move it even an inch. No one had been in there but us so . . there has to be some reasonable explanation and if it wasn’t me or Boots or Cooper or Oscar . . that leaves one person. 🙂