I had told my Sweetheart when I talked with him after I changed the password, but before I discovered neither the old nor the new password is working, that I was planning to just stay inside today and work on family history, since we did get more snow. However, with the password problem, I had to rethink my approach to this holiday. I recalled how I used to be glad to have a holiday when I was a school nurse, so that I could just stay home and take care of some housework that just did not happen while I was working. So that is what I did today.
I cooked my weekly wheat, and made a nice batch of kidney beans [I texted my Cuban sister to say I wished I could share them with her--I made them the way she taught me]. It was a good thing I was just staying in, because I managed to set off the smoke detector alarm with both the wheat and the beans! There were a few which got a bit burnt, but not to make them inedible.
Then I decided to try making flax seed crackers again. I used a brand-name of parchment paper, and left out some of the water [rather than increasing the flour, as I recently learned is apparently the usual way to deal with high-altitude baking], and the results were very good. Then I decided to experiment with the old, cheap parchment paper AND try making a batch of sweet crackers, and the results were not quite as bad as they had been recently, but not totally satisfactory, either.
While the second batch of crackers was baking, I decided to thoroughly clean the refrigerator. It was good that the frig is much like my frig at home, because I was not initially successful at removing some of the shelves. But I was able to persist until I figured out exactly how to do it. Now the frig is nice and clean, and the few items which had perished are now in the garbage bag, waiting to go outside [I decided that could wait until the morning, so that I could really just stay inside today].
I did stop to read a bit, and I ended up napping for a few minutes. Then I decided that the stove top could also use a cleaning. I was very relieved that the drip pans cleaned off quite easily. I have used foil inserts almost from the first while here, and what they did not catch scrubbed off nicely.
I eventually realized that while I had cleaned the frig, I had not cleaned the freezer [but I had done that a few weeks ago]. When I just looked in to see if I really should do that too, I noticed my favorite ice cream substitute--frozen bananas! I had forgotten that last week I was able to restock my supply when I took the Japanese sister to the Hispanic market, and got two big bags for a dollar apiece. I took a bit of a break and enjoyed that treat!
I did get the transcription I have been working on sent off to be posted--and then one of the other FairMormon volunteers offered to proof it, so I sent it off to her, too. I also discovered that, unlike most of the conference talks, this one had the video posted! But the transcript is valuable, too, and working on it gave me a greater appreciation for The Book of Mormon. I invite everyone to check out
Finishing up the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: An Introduction to The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon
Royal Skousen and Stan Carmack found at
http://www.fairmormon.org/fair-conferences/2016-fairmormon-conference/book-mormon-critical-text-project
Now I am waiting for another treat--a video chat with my Sweetheart! That, we hope, will be a Monday-night tradition until we can be together on Monday nights for Family Home Evening.
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