Today I emptied everything – bucket after bucket (washed out quart yogurt containers and cottage cheese tubs) of veggie broth and chicken stock and pesto and pie cherries and corn and rhubarb puree, ziploc bags of blueberries and peaches and cranberries, a few hunks of meat – a pork roast – a bag of shrimp, miscellaneous breads and rolls, some home made, some store bought, a pound of bacon, a pound of breakfast sausage, and two and half packs of hotdogs – from the downstairs upright freezer into the freezers of the three fridges in the house: the extra one in the basement, mine on the first floor, and mom’s/Mark’s on the 2nd, so that I could defrost the freezer.
All the ice melted remarkably fast – I did the unloading at about noon, and it was all thawed by 3:30. I sopped up the freezer with towels, and then went off to volunteer with United Wisconsin. That was also interesting in its own way. We were stationed just outside the Taste of Madison – as a political group we couldn’t be really at the event. It rained pretty hard most of the two and a half hours I was there, but there were a lot of people walking around the square drinking beer and wine and sampling the wares of local restaurants. And most all the people we talked to were Recall Walker supporters, too – only heard from 2 or 3 that said they like the guy.
Got home with that feeling like my toes were shriveled inside my shoes from being out in the rain for so long, put some Spanish rice in the oven (it came out a little bland), and reloaded the now-cold-again freezer. Used a laundry basket to carry everything back where it belonged. Then we had quesadillas (made from fresh corn and zucchini calabacitas) and the rice for supper. After all the lugging and protesting I was pretty tired so I soaked in the bathtub for about 20 minutes. I feel pretty rejuvenated now, but I still have to tackle the dinner dishes.
