Where in the World is My Car?

In the ongoing saga of “How shall I get from point A to point B?” I discovered yesterday that no one seems to know the whereabouts of the BMW. I had made arrangements for a company in Kalispell to put it on a car hauler heading west and drop it off at the dealer in Spokane. It was supposed to go last Thursday, but the truck driver got sick and the company couldn’t find a replacement driver. I was told it would leave Monday, so I called the BMW dealer and told them to expect it then. I called yesterday morning just to confirm that it had arrived. Kevin, my contact in the service department, said it wasn’t there. I called the car hauling company. The woman there who had made all the arrangements for me was out of the office, and the young woman I spoke with had no information. She said she would try to find out where it was and get back to me. She never called back. As it happens, the farm store is right across the highway from the car hauler, where we had left the car, and I had to go into town yesterday afternoon to get chicken feed. I can tell you that the BMW is not in their parking lot, where we left it last week, but beyond that, I have no idea where it is.

I don’t believe it is time to panic just yet. Hopefully, the car hauler was delayed until yesterday and the BMW has been delivered safely to Spokane. When I related all of this to the husband, he shrugged and said, “Well, it’s insured.” I’ll check with Kevin again this morning.

I am driving DD#1’s Acura, but it’s a two-door coupe with a hatchback. Naturally, this was the week that I had to get pig feed, chicken feed, pick up the husband’s new cut-off saw, make a Costco run, and buy a new office chair to replace my broken one. I miss the station wagon. Also, my left knee is starting to complain about having to work a clutch pedal again. The Acura is a solid little car, though. It’s getting me where I need to be, and for that, I am grateful.

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I finished mulching the potatoes yesterday and then planted the corn, finally. I’ll mulch that with some chicken manure this weekend. I opened the door to the Piggy Palace so the piglets could come out and I could monitor them while I worked. They wasted no time in exploring the pasture:

I expected to hear a few squeals when they ran into the electric fencing, but they all seem to have a good appreciation of its location. They were out in a paddock when we picked them up, so it’s possible that they already know about boundaries. In any case, they had a jolly time rooting around and eating rocks. (That is a pig thing that I don’t understand. All the pigs we’ve ever had have eaten rocks.) When the husband checked on them in the afternoon, they had all gone back into the Piggy Palace for a nap.

My plan for today involved moving the strawberries, although it’s raining right now and supposed to rain today and tomorrow. I might move them anyway. Rainy days are good for transplanting. If I decide to stay inside, I think I am going to make some Victoria Sauce. Elysian made this last year and gifted me a jar. I put it on a pork roast in the crock pot and it was amazing. It’s a good way to use up rhubarb, and we currently have a lot of it.

While I was in Alaska, DD#1 made this Instant Pot Smoked Sausage with Green Beans and Potatoes. I made it last week for the husband. It’s peasant food, basically, and he liked it so much that he requested it again. A double batch of that will be dinner tonight. The bonus is that it only takes about 15 minutes of prep and then two minutes in the Instant Pot. I’ve decided that one of my goals for this summer is to level up my food game in the kitchen. Cooking is one of my least favorite activities, and as a result, I’ve gotten lazy. I make the same meals over and over again (mostly what I can make in huge quantities to feed the gaping maw). It is time to experiment again and add some new dishes to the menu.

And I want to keep plugging away on the Slabtown Backpack. I went stash diving and unearthed just enough dark green Cordura for the lining. The zippers are here, too, so I can move ahead with that project.