Rainy Day Bibbles

Today is pre-move day here in Ft. Pierce Port St. Lucie KOA.  It's blustery and raining all day, with threat of severe thunderstorms, so we decided to spend the day on indoor projects.  We had a long list of things to do, and all were creative!

First, Kathy had had it with the chaos of her spice drawers.  She has two - one with individual spices, and one with mixed spices we've collected over the years.  Here is the mixed spice drawer before it got the "clean" treatment by Kathy:

The single-spice drawer had other problems.  There was no way to keep the spices in order.  They would slide around and get mixed up.  While Kathy had labeled the lids so she could identify them, they kept getting mixed around, which frustrated finding the one you want.

So Kathy came up with an idea to build a drawer organizer with wooden yardsticks, some little "L" brackets and wood glue.  Application of a handsaw and careful spacing was all it took - oh, yes, and supervision by Baxter:

David wasn't twiddling his thumbs while Kathy was getting spicy.  He wanted to bake some more of his honey oatmeal bread, and he wanted to try out two more veggie sausage recipes.  Here he is working the bread batter:

We had tried three different veggie sausage recipes and decided we liked the base material of Recipe #1 but the taste of Recipe #2.  So we modified Recipe #1 to substitute the spices from Recipe #2. David calls this - surprisingly - "Modified Recipe #1."  It has a base of black rice, oatmeal and sauteed onions.  Recipe #4 has a completely different base:  lentils, quinoa and sauteed onion.  Both were spiced similarly.

All of our projects took all day - measured by the 5 hours it took to make and bake the bread.  But as Happy Hour dawned, we had successfully completed our missions.

Here is Baxter examining and grading Kathy's wood shop project, all completed with the spice jars all lined up in orderly rows:

In this photo, Kathy's newly cleaned and organized mixed-spice drawer shows itself off beneath David's loaves of honey oatmeal bread (hot out of the oven) and a package of veggie sausages to be frozen for future breakfast delight:



Not every day can be beautiful weather for outdoor activities, but we can get lots of productive stuff done if we put our mind to it.

Seeya in Clearwater!