Finding invaluable items

These are the girls in fashionable period hats while touring the museum in Syracuse. 

The kids and I stayed home and cleaned the house while Emily took Evelyn to the location where they got free food.  That’s right!  A local grocery gives some of there slightly out of date food to a Mormon family that is friends with the Beelis.  They brought home a tremendous amount of meat, fruit and fresh vegetables.  We spent a good amount of time treating it and putting some away into the freezer.  They are blessed to have virtually no food expense.  Pieder makes considerably less in this job than he did last summer in Ohio.  We had bought strawberries a couple of days ago and made 2 pies, but this morning they brought another 3 quarts, several pints of blackberries and several pounds of grapes.  We had lunch and then went to Hill AFB.  We didn’t get started as soon as we had hoped and spent most of the time shopping at the thrift store.  The great finds were the rice cooker and dehydrator that will help make much of the fruit preserved.  Dehydrated fruit is very good.  After that we picked up Rosalie who was at rehearsal with the other members of the Romeo and Juliet cast who are getting ready for a group competition with other home school groups presenting Shakespearean plays too, and went to the Syracuse Museum.  It featured many artifacts from the town when it was being formed in the late 19th century.  The Mormons came west and established their own town.  We came home and I helped prepare the stir fry for supper by cutting some of the meat.  Have you ever cut frozen meat?  It is cold and hard to cut.  I did it anyway.  While waiting for supper, I read some writing contest entries by Elizabeth and Rosalie.  Rosalie had won some money in a local contest.  It was sort of fun grading papers with 2 kids wanting to improve their writing.  Bedtime was early so that we can get more visiting done tomorrow.