Meal Prep - Plan B

Mike asked me to prepare an evening meal for Andrew and Jacob, who are staying all night working the slab. They want ed chicken and rice. No big deal, right? As I start to prepare the meal, I have the peanut butter bars in the oven and the rice on the stove top I notice that the flame under the rice is not there. I look in the oven and there is no flame. NO PROPANE. Mike had just said last week, I can’t believe that we are still running on the propane bottles since they felt empty upon our arrival in December. I quickly put plan B into action. I called Cassie and Kristen. May I use your oven for the bars and bread sticks. Here we go. I head out of the house, up the road with pans in hand. When I walk back into the house there is no electricity. Now, I think how nice a fire pit would be for using. But, the electricity did come back on. I quickly put the chicken in the electric skillet. Pam stops by and takes the rice to her house to cook. Cassie calls the baking pan with the bread sticks won’t fit in her oven so she takes it to Pam’s house for baking. Thank you to all the neighbors, who so kindly jumped in and helped prepare the meal. End result - the meal was completed by 6 PM, the men were fed, and everyone had a part in the meal preparation for the work crew. Being flexible does pay off.

I did walk down to maintenance, filled out a work order for propane bottles to be changed. Two maintenance men came to the house to change the bottles but the fitting was not correct. They ended up taking the bottles all back to the shop. Ruben comes at 6:30 PM with a bottle and different fitting. He connects the propane bottle and fixes the fitting. We are in business - propane for the next day. Thank you, Ruben.