Milk crates!

I'm struggling with what to write or even if I want to write.  I'm afraid it's still the mono talking but who knows...I guess a simple blood test would tell the truth, but of yeah, that's right, the doctors office is closed since my doctor died.  Second one in 5 years.  And both were young women...one had stage 4 breast cancer that hit her like a freight train going 90 and the other had a blood clot that shot straight to her heart.  So sad....both women were phenomenal!

Last week, I spent some time at the Alabama Gulf Coast in good old Orange Beach.  The weather was perfect, high 80's, slight breeze, not a cloud in the sky.  We only left the condo twice and both times it was to meet up with friends that live down there.  So we were incredibly lazy.  I was so lazy that i didn't take a curling iron, a flat iron or a blowdryer.  Heck, I didn't even take my make-up!  Well, except lipstick, eyeliner and mascara...and no, I'm not one of those girls that looks fabulous without it.  I just didn't feel like putting forth that kind of effort.

So anyway, while we were packing the car for the trip, I'm trying to figure out where to put some of the grocery staples (salt, pepper, mustard, crackers, trash bags, paper towels, etc.) that we always take with us so we don't have to buy big new packs of it to throw away or bring back home.  So I'm standing there in the kitchen, thinking, when Chris walks by and asks what I'm doing, just standing there (knowing I'm excited about beach time and was ready to leave hours ago).  Then it hits me...I need a milk crate! 

I see the perplexed look on your face, let me explain.  Chris cooks in BBQ competitions and we are always lugging stuff here there and yonder and milk crates stack well, have handle, you can see what's in them and they are free at the butcher shop that we have to go to to get the meat for the competition.  So, anyway, we have amassed quite the milk crate collection and we use them for just about anything.  Chris brings them home and we spray them down with cleaner and water and they are stacked and stored in our garage and storage unit. 

Back to the story...I need a milk crate!  So I respond to Chris that I think I'll need a milk crate to tote my groceries in.  And he grins and says...and that's use number what for a milk crate?  And you mocked me when I started using them....ha, I have converted you!!!!  Thus, a new blog has been born:  Your Milk Crate Does What? (which you can check out here)