Last weekend my immediate family all went on various trips and I stayed home alone. Now don't go feeling all sorry for me. I was fine and actually fairly excited to have uninterrupted time to do some cleaning that had been needing to be done. I will admit I had a long list and only marked off about a fourth of it but I stayed busy. I didn't cook except for making a gluten free pasta salad for myself and a Marie Calendar's teriyaki chicken meal. Well, I did make myself breakfast but how hard is it to warm some Canadian bacon, pour some egg whites from a carton into a pan, and pull a gluten free bagel out of the freezer and pop in the toaster? Not very hard.
The Husband actually made the statement before he left that he hoped nothing bad occurred while he was gone. I do have a reputation for that happening. One year, the refrigerator died. I bought him a new one while he was gone as the repair was excessive. And how can my faithful blog readers forget two or three years ago when I was sequestered in my house because of a dangerous criminal that was in my neighborhood and tracked to my yard? That was a really bad one and could have turned out wrong. You may read that in my post of "SAFE" on June 25, 2014.
Anyways, during the time The Husband was away, I realized the trash compactor wouldn't compact when turned on unless I held the right side together. The compactor is pretty old and we have determined that when it dies, we will just have a trash drawer so I was expecting it's demise while he was gone just because that's usually what happens.
The Husband actually made the statement before he left that he hoped nothing bad occurred while he was gone. I do have a reputation for that happening. One year, the refrigerator died. I bought him a new one while he was gone as the repair was excessive. And how can my faithful blog readers forget two or three years ago when I was sequestered in my house because of a dangerous criminal that was in my neighborhood and tracked to my yard? That was a really bad one and could have turned out wrong. You may read that in my post of "SAFE" on June 25, 2014.
Anyways, during the time The Husband was away, I realized the trash compactor wouldn't compact when turned on unless I held the right side together. The compactor is pretty old and we have determined that when it dies, we will just have a trash drawer so I was expecting it's demise while he was gone just because that's usually what happens.
So on Monday morning before The Husband's return on Monday afternoon, I decided to empty the trash bag in the compactor. I left the clean bag out with a note that there was no bag. I was going to babysit The Grandbaby and wanted to use the vacuum cleaner on the inside of the structure when I had the drawer pulled out. The drawer was obviously in distress and very shaky on that right side.
After I arrived back home, I got the vacuum cleaner and did the best I could. Those compactors can get dirty fast and furious. I noticed something in the left track of the drawer roller. I tried to vacuum it out and it wouldn't come so I reached and pulled and pulled and it came out.
Uh huh....an empty generic Splenda envelope. Well lo and behold, I put the new compactor bag in and the compactor closed on the right side beautifully. That little piece of paper envelope was keeping the track from operating properly. With it removed, the compactor works exactly as it should and the drawer is straight. Huh.
I got to thinking....isn't that how it is with life "things". We allow the tiniest, smallest of things to clog up our track and mess up our joyful times. I told myself I was going to be more careful of not only the generic Splenda packs but those little thoughts, actions, and traps of confusion that I tend to fall into--thinking I was getting all messed up when all it takes is a little "removal" of that little thing. Nope, it certainly doesn't take a big thing to mess with you. I need to learn to hit the trash with these little trashy critters.
As I always wind up realizing when I know it already, God is always there to help me clean things up when they need cleaning up. Believe me, no matter how hard I try, there's always some mess to clean up. Know what I mean? 😁
And about that trash compactor, I thought had bit the dust....I'm kind of glad she's still in working order. I would have missed her in my kitchen!
Until next time...........
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