Company Arriving today....

Cannot wait for the Ga. cousin and her hubster to arrive.  ETA is 3pm-ish.  Cleaned the house from TOP to BOTTOM yesterday...and I mean CLEANED!!  Baseboards, scrubbed tile on hands and knees...LOL.
This place is SPARKLING clean!!  As I was on hands and knees on the kitchen tile....I noticed how GROSS the area underneath the bottom cabinets was...the kick board I guess you call it.  OMG...how embarrassed was I that I'd never seen that before!!  We've only been in the house 4 months...and I hadn't been on my hands and knees on the kitchen floor I guess.  You cannot see that area while standing.  Anyway...it's no longer gross!!  Who knew!!  I also cleaned inside the dishwasher door....the edges of the door were nasty.  I never use my dishwasher - well, rarely anyway.  Another hidden dirty spot.  Yikes.
I really need to pull the stove out and check behind and under it....dreading that scene.

So I baked a carrot cake this am for company....and now my oven won't turn off.  Got online to read that this is a common issue with Kitchen Aid stoves/ovens.  Why wouldn't the company fix this issue if it is so well known???  So now I have to call an appliance repair person to come fix the dang thing.  Just what I need today...NOT!!  For now we've turned it off with the circuit breaker!  Jeez.

The cake looks good though..LOL.  I'll whip up some butter cream frosting and we'll be all set.  Want to know what my secret cake/muffin ingredient is?  How about the left over pulp from my juicer?!?!  Yup.  I make fresh juice most mornings.  Carrots, apples, grapes, oranges, celery....etc. go into the juice.  I only keep the carrot and apple "pulp" from the juicer.  I save it after I've juiced those two ingredients before continuing with the rest of the ingredients.  It makes THE BEST "carrot" cake or muffins you've ever had. You can add nuts or raisins - or both!  I like nuts in mine.  So there u have it....I just couldn't see throwing all of that lovely pulp down the garbage disposal...and after doing so several times I just HAD to look on line and see what I could do with it!  Voila....love it.  I'm going to try to add some to meatloaf, burgers, spaghetti sauce, etc.  and see how we like it.  Sneak in a bit of fiber when/where we can!!  With no kiddos in the house...it's just the two of us...I can try these crazy things now.

So I'm sitting here relishing my clean  house, my baked cake, my meals planned for the week and some of my husk masks hanging up in the back yard.  Life is good...and I'm loving the life I'm living :)