Chicken Chiboken

Kudos to J. who most certainly is eligible for Father of the Year!  Getting H.'s apartment cleaned up and everything moved out has required Herculean efforts on the part of my beloved.  He handed me a kitchen floor mat in a plastic garbage bag and said 'we just need to try to hose it off!'.  Yuck!  Boys apparently weren't the best housekeepers.

We had no idea just how much food H. had in the place - 20 pounds of various chicken parts (breasts, thighs, legs) made their way home.  I cooked wings (which I had thawed from our freezer not realizing that I would soon have more chicken in the house than I could possibly imagine) and legs last night.  Still have 10 thawed legs to cook later this week.  Tonight, we're having pasta with fresh tomatoes and basil (from our garden) along with the leg meat cleaned off the bone.

He also had a 'utility closet' that he forgot about and it was loaded with laundry soap, paper towels, etc. so we are well stocked on that stuff for awhile, too.

Today will be final touches on the cleaning; a final vacuuming and then turning in the keys.  We will immediately start praying it gets rented - though we will leave H. a check for the rent before we leave for the beach in case it doesn't.  Ouch!  $1055 out the door - for an empty apartment -

We'll get back whatever we can when they rent it - here's hoping.  H. has some of the money available to help offset the rent....but still.  Yowza!

The house was appraised again by our new (actually is our current) lender and it appraised for $15K over the appraisal of just a month ago!!  Yeah us!  It's looking like this refi is actually going to happen!!

I am working 4 hour days this week so I slept in until 7!  No alarm setting this week!  Get there when I get there and work 4 hours and then head home.  'Tis a beautiful thing and I could get used to working part time.  Not that it will ever happen on a regular basis - but shorter days are a nice change. So is coming home and getting busy around the homestead.

It's rainy here which is odd.  It's not really cold - just wet.  The solar isn't generating much power but it's OK 'cuz we aren't needing the AC much either so it's a wash.

I might send J. to get corn tortillas and some green chilies - found a recipe for a Mexican chicken casserole that looks good!