I had just mentioned in another thread how after a hurricane when I was a kid where we lost power for several days, my mom fired up the grill and cooked all the thawed meat and fed the neighbor's. Are they without power too? If you don't like your neighbors, can you take it to a homeless shelter?
USDA says four hours for unopened fridge, 48 hours for full unopened freezer. We’ve not opened either.
I’ve got another day on the freezer, so the neighbors and the homeless will have to hold their horses for now…and it’s pouring rain, so I wouldn’t be inclined to stand out there grilling, anyway.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at MrsT's reaction but it's certainly understandable. We got a lot of rain yesterday but nothing today. I am sure those bands will continue to cycle and we will get some more at some point before it's all over. And I am sure you aren't a happy camper either, you worked hard on the afternoon tea and I know you had a pretty nice freezer cache going there. I would be pretty miserable myself. I do like that we have a gas stove so I could cook without electricity, but since we have a pump for our well water which of course is run by electricity, we would be without water which is just unbearable so we would be in a hotel. And I have a chest freezer in the garage chock full of meat and seafood, so yeah.I’ve got another day on the freezer, so the neighbors and the homeless will have to hold their horses for now…and it’s pouring rain, so I wouldn’t be inclined to stand out there grilling, anyway.
Nearly all my neighbors have generators, so they’re ok, and I’d guess the ones who don’t would be firing up their own grills, if it weren’t pouring down rain.
MrsT is at her worst in power outages. They really anger her, and she’s a grumpy bear right now. I read her that suggestion of feeding the neighbors, and considering they’ve all recently received either food or assistance or both from us, and no one has come over to offer up some freezer space, her response was…quite unkind, to say the least.
Ripped from the Tasty Neighborhood headlines, just now:
And I thought it was only the very much younger generations (like teens and early 20s without fully developed frontal lobes) that had a lot of self-centered and ungrateful butt-heads (see I cleaned up mine, too).Ripped from the Tasty Neighborhood headlines, just now:
Neighbor text: “Hey, can you go walk your property and see if my boat cover blew over there?”
Keep in mind, it’s pouring rain and the yard is saturated.
I read that to MrsT, and she said, “Tell him you can’t right now because you’re trying to keep your food from thawing!” - I cleaned that up a bit.
Neighbor across the road had a heart attack about 10 days ago. Ambulance to local hospital and airlifted to the city.
We watered their flowers and grabbed their mail until he was released, and they haven’t even said thanks. I can hear their generator purring away, though…
I’m operating under the assumption that they’re originally from Not The Midwest, as around these parts, here’s how it should go:
I pretty much ignore most of what the USDA says, LOL. Throw leftovers out after 3 days? Not me (unless it's seafood). I generally give the sniff test. And I tend to think that the date listed on a lot of packaged goods is a suggested "best by" even if it states to use by a certain date.
The generator discussion, which we’ve had multiple times:
! We’re buying a generator as soon as all this is over!
I agree. Only 4 hours?? Come on...
Un-pack our suitcase Do two loads of laundry Put away all of the clothes that I un-packed and washed along with all the other Tidy up the house Put said suitcase away Sit down with a glass (or three) of wine and relax