Day 4

Start off today by waking up and doing some hurried tidying before the guys come over for a game of Twilight Imperium 3. Coffee, shower , do a bit of packing, reset the game board because one of the guys tells me he can't actually make it, and wait.

Rich, Travis, and a new acquaintance named Angus show up on schedule. We play for three hours solid, at a rapid pace because we are all experienced at this game and if you don't play quickly it can easily last 8-10 hours. Easily. We finish in 3. Travis pulls off a landslide win in round four, snagging 9 victory points in the final moments and leaving the rest of us in his dust . Fun game. Everybody has afternoon plans so must leave, but I have things I must do anyway.

Do more packing, decide that if Dwaine and Lisa are going to come over later to pick up the futons they are buying from us, I may as well serve them dinner. I decide to head out for groceries. Takes me about an hour, and when I return home I turn the focus on packing. I do remarkably well, emptying the mud room, most of the kids' room, and some of the kitchen stuff.

At 4:30 I harvest some beets, carrots, and lettuce from the garden, get a salad going, and prep the beets and carrots for glazing. I slice some sweet onions in fine rings to fry. I get my potatoes ready to roast and pop them in the oven because they take an hour, then while they are baking I empty the chest freezer and shove everything that was in it into the fridge freezer. I turn it off to defrost, chip the ice out of it and wipe it down with cleaner.

I return to the kitchen and get my cooking on. In short order, just minutes after Lisa and Dwaine arrive, I have baked potatoes, crispy fried onions, beet greens sautéed in bacon fat, corn on the cob, a simple salad of lettuce and tomato and cucumber and red pepper, molasses and honey brown sugar glazed carrots and beets, and steaks seared in the own and finished in the oven.

Dinner is wonderful and it is nice to cook for someone again.

After dinner Dwaine helps me move the freezer into the pod and some appliances and clothes into the freezer, and we reorganize the POD  so it fits. Pleased with this because I love that freezer and don't want to leave it behind.

Going to clean up the remains if dinner ( if which there is little) and relax for the evening. Good, productive day.

Tomorrow I'm going to sleep in