Month: July 2018

Insurance Basics

I’m going to start this session with something that’s important to me.  Keeping me and my family protected.  Keeping you and your family protected, that’s where you come in.

First day in our new home in Arizona.

Full disclosure, my husband owns an insurance agency.  You are not obligated to be a customer of my husbands, or his Company at all, this is purely for your information.  That being said, he’s really nice and won’t turn you away if you insist.

I want to educate, because about 6 months ago, even though we had insurance on our cars and home and life, I knew nothing about it.  Every time the subject was brought up, my eyes would glaze over and all those English words that I knew separately, made no sense to me in the order that they appeared.

Things have changed.  I now am beginning to understand the need for it and what it actually means.  Every state and province (Hi to my family in Canada) will have things that are different about some of their laws and rules.  These are just my basic understanding of insurance, please speak with a trusted professional for more information.

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Smoking Ribs on the Traeger

Clearly I gave our baby a bath before the picture, but I think a well-loved grill should be dirty!

We made plans to have some wonderful people over for dinner on a Friday night.  Their favorite meal; ribs.  Smoked ribs on the Traeger!  It’s one of my favorites, too.  I start making plans to buy ribs, prepare the rub and let The Man do his thing.  Only when I realized that Friday was a day that The Man actually works and that I would have to be doing it all myself, did I wonder why I hadn’t planned it for Saturday.    But I didn’t, so I guess I had to learn how to smoke ribs on the Traeger.  It’s a good thing I am in the mood to learn how to adult.

Step one- Ask The Man to write down exactly how to do it.  I mean, exactly.

Step two- Tell myself that I am a grown-ass human that will indeed be able to figure it out.  And if not, we can order pizza.

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Unplugging the Garbage Disposal

I see you’re hooked on becoming a legitimate grown-up.  Good for you.  Let’s continue.

Studies show that putting 30 egg shells down a garbage disposal all at once may plug your kitchen sink.  Carrot peels tend to do the same thing.  What now?  Here’s what I found…..

Hey, did you know that in Canada (at least Manitoba) they call it a “Garburator” instead of a garbage disposal.  Now you do.  You’re welcome.

First step to unplugging the garbage disposal in your kitchen sink, is to find that metal ‘S’ shaped thing.  You know, that thing you’ve seen around but never knew what it was for.  Now is its time to shine.  You open the cupboard door underneath the sink with the disposal and locate the thing (ours is black) that is right under that sink.

That’s the garbage disposal.  At the very bottom of it there is a hole.  Making sure the garbage disposal is OFF, you place one end of the metal thing into the hole and jiggle it back and forth.  Back and forth.  It may take a while.  You can alternate jiggling that, taking out the tool and turning on the water and the disposal.  Just DO NOT do those two things at the same time.  Keep trying, you’re doing great.

 

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