Bathroom Laundromat & Cabbage Soup!

This has been one of those washing shirts in the bathtub kind of days. The snow is melting quickly, but it won't be warm enough to hook up the washing machine for a couple more days. So, today I washed work shirts in the tub and my son washed some bedding.

When we wash things by hand like that, we wring them out as much as possible and hang them up to drip in the bathtub. Once they somewhat resemble the dampness of being spun in the washing machine, I can put them in the dryer. I do at least have the dryer to use! **smile**

The sun is shining and it is above freezing out, but it will drop below freezing tonight. That is why we don't want to hook up the washer today. It is a bit of a hassle to get it all set up and to take it all back down. On Wednesday, we can hook it up and leave it set up for a few days...unless the weather forecast does not come true. And that is always a possibility around here! :P

Dave made cabbage chicken soup two days in a row. Boy is it good! He is a good cook...better than I am, I think!

RV Cooking!

We have a little RV refrigerator inside. Thankfully, we have been blessed with a full size refrigerator that we keep outside in our partially finished laundry room! It is interesting having a fridge out there. Since the room is unfinished, when the really cold weather hits, the thing inside the fridge freeze.

Our main pantry is also outside, so our canned goods also have a tendency of freezing when it gets cold enough. We have to be careful about anything we store out there in glass jars. So far, nothing has been broken on us.

We are blessed with a four burner propane stove that came with the RV. When we bought the RV, it also had a convection microwave oven. That got fried when we moved onto our land and hooked up the power for the first time. Yep, there is a story in that. We lost a TV and VCR, too. Some very kind people donated a very old TV and an old VCR. We used those until we were finally able to dig out on of our other VCR's from the box and replace the TV with a new one.

Some other very kind people donated an old microwave toaster oven and a little countertop oven. They were interesting to use, but could not replace the convection oven that we had. We were finally able to find our old house microwave in our box. Just last Christmas we received a new convection/microwave for Christmas. Yay! We are now able to do some "real" baking again!