It was a local, busy day yesterday. After watching the sealift ship arrive on Saturday, only to give up in the face of a strong wind and a lot of ice, my plans on having separate days for Thanksgiving and the sealift went up in smoke.
So once freight actually started making it to shore, Leah and I would make little forays down to the breakwater to see if our crates had arrived. Finally late in the afternoon I gave up and concentrated on supper. We had a large family supper by the way with most of Leah's brothers and sisters and their families showing up. So it was about 14 and us, Leah's parents were out on the land.
Everytime I prepare a big holiday meal I always come away amazed at how my mother was able to make meals like that time and time again. We had Roast Turkey with dressing (almost as good as my mom's), Baked Ham with pineapple in a cola marinade, gravy, mashed potatoes, mashed turnips, carrots, parsnips, marinated vegetable salad, macaroni salad (the only dish I didn't have a hand in), Coconut creme pie, and apple pie. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something but my brain has gone numb(er). After we cleaned up, Leah, Sheba and I went down and finally one of our five crates was there.
After breaking open the crate and transferring all the goods into the truck, we headed back to the house to unload everything into the porch and then back down to the breakwater. The other three food crates were there and we repeated the process three more times. A couple of trips back down for the last crate were fruitless so I gave up for the evening. In the end I couldn't leave it for another day and took one last stab at it just before midnight when they were to shut down for the night. It was there.
The tires were VERY well crated and it took a long time for me to get the crate open and retrieve the last of our 2008 sealift. I think my head hit the pillow around 12:45 am and I was asleep at 12:46 am.
Here are some pictures of the order. The sealift weighed over 4,000 lbs, but some of that is crating and some was the tires. These pictures show about 3/4's of the groceries, the rest were already taken away by the time I took this.
This is mostly the pop component of our order. Seventy cases. Yes that's a lot of pop, but we drink alot. The money we saved on pop, compared to the $2+ a can at the stores more than paid for the entire freight costs of our order.
This is the rest, although there is a freezer back there so its not as big as it looks.
A view from a different angle.
I spent much of today putting everything away. As much of the food as possible gets put in the pantries in the porch and kitchen. Most of the order ends up in our storage room above the dining room. The paper products (ie Toilet paper, paper napkins, paper towels and Kleenex) goes into the attic. It was a lot of trips up and down the stairs.
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Makes my whining about emptying the motorhome after camping seem really childish! 🙂 Here’s to a soda-filled winter!
Wow. That’s all I can say. Wow.
It will be a pop filled winter. I should point out that neither Travis or Hilary have EVER had a pop.
Grocery shopping in the High Arctic Tina. Ain’t it cool.