November 4. Overcast most of the day with light rains this afternoon and evening. This morning, after breakfast and quiet time, I worked on the next lesson in John for a while. Daddy and I were going to work on getting the rest of the plywood up in our bedroom, but we only have one drum to stand on, and we need one for each of us so will have to borrow another one. There isn’t much left to put up, but everybody else is busy working on their own projects. So we set that project aside for now, and we went outside to do some yard cleanup. People keep throwing firewood over the back fence, and leaving it in piles there. It makes the yard look messy so between the two of us, we were able to carry two bundles of firewood over to the house and put it under the house. We also picked up some bark that we had pulled off the clothesline post, and Daddy put that under the house. There is just a little bit left to do, but that was enough strenuous work for us for this morning. After we came back in, I worked a bit more on lessons in John. Now I have a funny story to tell. For our dinner, I made potato patties with the little bit of mashed potatoes that were left over, or so I thought. After getting the container of leftover mashed potatoes out of the fridge, I chopped up a little onion to add to it. Then got out the flour and the half cup measure, opened the container of leftover potatoes, threw in the flour and onion, added some baking powder, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and parsley, and mixed all together. (The fact that the mixture was a bit orange didn’t matter because I had heated up pumpkin and mashed potatoes in the same pan together yesterday, and there was a little pumpkin left that got mixed in with the potatoes.) Heated the skillet, poured a little oil onto it, and dropped large spoonsful of the mixture onto the skillet. While they were cooking, I also warmed up some leftover greens. Daddy set the table, and we sat down to eat. Daddy enjoyed ketchup on his patties, and I flavored mine with a mixture of mayonnaise and mustard. Yummy dinner! Neither of us had any idea that we were not eating potato patties until I put away the two extra patties after they cooled. Decided to put them down in the deep part of the freezer, and what should my eyes behold there but…. Oh, no! What is this? The container of leftover mashed potatoes. Now WHAT had I made the potato patties with? We had a little discussion, and then came to the conclusion that I had made the potato patties with the leftover popo (papaya) crisp. I had forgotten all about the crisp being in the fridge and also that I had put the leftover potatoes in the deep section. And it never occurred to me to look closely at what I was using for the patties because (1) both potatoes and crisp were in the same kind of container; (2) there was about the same amount left of each; (3) and the potatoes were white with orange because of some pumpkin in them, and the crisp was white with orange because of the oatmeal topping on the orange popo. So I had not even taken a close look at the contents of the container when I got it out — just started tossing in ingredients. Those seasonings must have disguised the popo well. And we have two “potato” popo patties left for tomorrow. Then we still have leftover mashed potatoes to make into potato patties the next day. 😊 Then we had our nap, after which I made a new popo crisp for Daddy. That’s his favorite snack. Then I worked on the lessons in John most of the afternoon and was thankful for the Lord’s help in getting it finished. This evening, I made the student copy with blanks to fill in. November 5. It was a chilly, foggy, dreary, rainy day in Owena, a day for keeping the fire burning in the wood stove. We didn’t get to finish cleanup outside, but hopefully can do that another day. We did get the new map put up in the meeting room. Took down the old map which was glued onto somewhat heavy corrugated paper but still too flimsy. Found a box (the one that our rocking chair had come in) half of which was just the right size, and glued the old map onto it. Had to set heavy boxes on it for a while until the glue dried. When that was good and dry, we glued the new map on top of the old one. The glue was a little wet so we let that dry for a couple hours — it took a while to dry because of the dampness, and we also had our dinner and nap before we got back to it. Once that was dry, we bordered it with clear package tape. Then it was ready to re-hang. Daddy put up a third board because the old map had only been hanging on two boards — one at the top and one at the bottom and didn’t have any support in the middle. Now the map is much sturdier with the extra cardboard backing and the extra board. Also wrote one e-mail this morning and put some of my tea herbs into containers so I would have easier access to them. Besides finishing the work of putting the map up this afternoon, I sorted and washed a bunch of greens and then installed the photo studio for my camera in the computer. That turned out to be a waste of time since it has to be registered and can’t be used without the internet. So I figured I may as well uninstall it. Right after supper I had a warm bath in a chilly room. Then I cut up the greens with some onions and put them in the pressure cooker to cook while I did the dishes. Later this evening, I wrote in my journal and worked on the next lesson in John.
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