...5.26...Over the Weekend...

...we started this rainy weekend off with some vegan pancakes...

...then...of course...we headed out to get the shopping done...nothing much of note...the dried cranberries were on sale so I got two bags...the Manwich is for vegan sloppy joes...because it came up in conversation and we realized that it's been a long long time since we've had them...and not sure if it's a supply chain issue or not...but Aldi did not have the balance cereal (like Life) that I usually get so I got a couple of the Vitality ones instead...

...and after the mail ran...we got geared up for the mailbox refurb project...and pulled our faded and dented mailbox out of the ground...

...it's really heavy...and it was cemented in which we were not expecting as it moved easily when pushed...but because someone had obviously backed into it at some point in the last 20 years that's understandable...but it will mean that we'll have to dig that up and get some quickrete...

...so we gave it all a good scrub and sanded it with a fine grit...we chose this weekend for the project because Monday is a Post Office holiday and we thought we could accomplish it all in 2 days...but we all know that estimate really always needs to be doubled...and we wound up putting it back in the ground so that we could get mail all next week...it's very wobbly though...

...so then with the rain pouring down we decided to finally get the tools up on the wall...

...we had gotten all of the brackets at least a year ago but had just never installed them...so the tools were always in the way leaned up against the wall or in the corner...and this is so much better now...

...then Sunday afternoon we did some food prep...an Instant Pot of beans...

...I baked our favorite banana bread...

...and also baked some tofu while the oven was on...

...still using my old Pampered Chef cake tester that I won at a party in North Dakota...

...I can't resist the heel still warm from the oven...

...cooked a pot of rice in the rice cooker...

...when the beans were done...

...I portioned them out into jars...the small ones for lunches during the week the large one without liquid is for a casserole recipe I wanted to try...and the other large one was for dinner...

...and the final project was to pretty up my anniversary bouquet and keep it going for a little while longer...

...so I separted out the flowers that were still pretty and made a new smaller bouquet...

...and then when I went to clean up...I found that the pollen from the Stargazer lillies has quite the staining potential...and I had to scrub the sink with Barkeepers Friend...not that that's a bad thing...haha...

...but it stained me as well...

...funny it was almost like henna...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...link to previous post...4.12 Dinner and a Movie...