Win!

Since getting my sinus infection I have been so tired. I’ve been fighting it now for several weeks and part of me still feels like the sinus infection is winning. I want to sleep more, want to sit cuddled with my dackels more and have no real taste for food.

Friday morning, after breakfast, Hubby suggested that we go shopping. We needed things like, bread, milks, eggs, well you get the idea. So I dressed myself, watered the garden while Hubby got ready, and we left the house at 10:30.

We went to the dry cleaner and did the paper work to have their insurance buy Hubby a new pair of trousers. They LOST his pants! Then we went to the post office, getting our mail, and by then it was close to midday, so we went to Hubby’s favorite Chinese restaurant. I put the things on my plate I usually eat, but it just didn’t taste right. So I didn’t eat too much, mostly fruit.

We visited three stores and shopped like crazy in the crowed stores, gathering all we will need for the next ten days. Then we drove back home, with me nearly falling asleep in the passenger seat.

After getting it all put away, I sat down at my neighbors to visit with them. Then I came home and started our dinner. I could only eat half of it again. I put things away, did the dishes and just as I am thinking I can relax, Hubby comes in and tells me that it’s time to make cherry jam!

Oh no! This can take several hours to do, and I was so tired, but he insisted that we must do it, as tomorrow he must go to a fruit growers meeting and on Sunday I am going to see my cousin.

So we printed out the recipe, prepared the cherries (I have got to get a cherry pitter), and then set about cooking up the cherry jam. The recipe said it would take 35 minutes. It took us two hours!

However, the jam tastes great, and we used them up before they went bad. I have 5 half pints of lovely cherry jam, and that is definitely a win, win!