When life gives you lemons....

Yesterday morning Mr Ladybug took the bathtub fixtures apart so we could get new pieces to fix the drippy tub. Went to Lowes only fo find out they only had one that was for our fixture and it had been opened with pieces removed. No worries we found the same piece on Amazon, it will arrive on Sunday and it was cheaper. You would think that was the end of the story. This morning after a great nights sleep I wake up around 6 and get up to start making a birthday cake for our daughter who is turning 21. As I am wasshing dishes I smell something like sewage and notice the sink is draining slow. I turn off the water and when I go down the hallway I step into a puddle of water. There is a clog and it came up through the drain where they washing machine drains, over flowed and ran behind the washer, dryer and through the wall. Honestly it wasnt that much water but still, yuck! Mr Ladybug gets his drain snake thingy and its not working properly, a quick trip back to Lowes and we have a new one and its even several feet longer but not long enough to reach the clog. We have plans to leave the house at noon, take the birthday girl to a winery stop by our other girls house to celebrate with a birthday lunch. The clog has to wait.

I remember not too many years ago this would have had me in tears which really makes no sense because there are all things that we can fix ourselves. We could even do it faster if stores had the parts. Its not the end of the world. So I had to pull all the linens out from the bottom of the closet to get to the turn off valves to the shower fixtures. I needed to go through them and get rid of some. Having them in the hallway in baskets to trip over makes me do  it faster and when the leak is fixed tomorrow my linen closet will be more tidy, Mark that off the spring cleaning list. If I run the water pretty slow while I wash the dishes it will not back up. If I do them in a dish pan and take the dirty dish water outside to dump it wont back up at all. I may be inconvenienced twice doing dishes. I think I will survive. So when life gave us a few lemons this weekend we went to a winery.

We did make jelly this weekend and both turned out great! Strawberry and dandelion and here are the links to both recipes

https://www.freshpreserving.com/strawberry-jam-%7C-making-strawberry-jam-%7C-ball-fresh-preserving-br1265.html

https://teaspoonofspice.com/make-dandelion-jelly/

Biscuits with homemade strawberry jelly for breakfast makes all the morning mishaps seem like nothing!

Last night we were able to pick enough greens for a salad and even had a few radishes to throw in there. We made our little greenhouse out of windows I picked up off the curb. Mr Ladybug just built a shallow box and we hinged the window on top. This really gets your started early and you can grow salad fixings later in the year as well. We were able to get our 25 green bean plants in the ground in hope of a few weeks of an early crop.