My Roomba Dance

 Good Morning California.  What's left of it anyway, after all the fires.  They say the governor signed an order let the water out, fill reservoirs and clean up the forest floor.  Nothing like closing the barn door after the horses are out.  He's afraid he won't get that Federal Funding.  And yet ANOTHER recall has been started, but it's really too late.  This is his last term ... but he just might get voted out early.  And THAT is California News.

In other news on the Homefront, I'm doing VERY well.  Maybe I coughed ten times yesterday with three sneezes, one because I shook out a rug on the patio when the wind was blowing the wrong way!!  I think I'm on the mend.  Mr. Cooper and I stuck very close to the couch, which he appreciated muchly.  He does love snuggling next to his Mom.

We made a couple of forays out to the rig to get dirty laundry and bird seed.  Somehow I seem to have lost an entire bag that I was SURE was in the cupboard.  I was wrong.  On the way, I discovered several roses blooming on my dead looking bushes.  It's way too early in the season for this to be happening.  Maybe the groundhog was wrong?

Thinking that all my sneezing might be the 1/4" thick layer of dirt and dust bunnies on the floor,  I tried hooking the Roomba up to my internet.  Maybe that would help it think better.  It talked me through the program ... no kidding ... it talks to you ... before telling me it needed a factory reset.  

That seemed to be the medicine it needed, because it started working perfectly, and after about four hours, had mapped the entire house.  There's a little glitch in the map where it knocked over the doggie gate and got stuck under a chair, but otherwise it did very well.  I danced a little Roomba Rumba around the living room!!  No more pushing that heavy vacuum.

It's now programmed to come on three days a week.  We shall see if it works.  Oh ... and it told me it needed a new brush thingy that sweeps stuff into its stomach.  As for the table leg request, I'll post that picture tomorrow.

Lunch was another fire sale soup from the discount store ... I double checked the date on this one.  It's from Pacific Soup Company, the one that has the tomato that I love.  You can definitely skip this one however.  It's carrot/cumin flavor and tasteless!  I even added cooked carrots and some broccoli to speed my recovery.  It didn't help.  It's WAY too watery for my taste.  Even the parmesan cheese didn't help.  

I finally felt good enough to unbag all that fabric and pile it up.  There four quilts here, along with extra white, because almost every quilt has white in it for the background.  There's going to be lots of sewing going on when I feel better ... but not now.  All this coughing and sneezing has made me feel like I did 100 pushups.  My ribs protest!

 That's it .... that's all I did.  Rest up was the word of the day.  Feeling 85 percent better by evening, I decided that sweet potato I bought would be quite tasty.  Why, I have no idea, because I never buy sweet potatoes.  

Cut in half, I ran it under water, seasoned it well and turned it upside down on a big pat of butter in the pan.  It lounged in the oven at 400 degrees for 40 minutes.  WOW!  It tasted so sweet and delicious, that's all I had for dinner.  Hopefully this crud is NOT turning me into a vegetarian!!!

I wandered out later in the evening to make sure THIS kid was all tucked in and everything working that should be.  There's not enough sun to keep the batteries up with just solar, so she shall remain plugged in for the next week.  There's still lots of stuff to be removed, but I'm procrastinating.  Maybe tomorrow.

I'll be on the couch once again!!