chicken broth and rocking chair

Today I made chicken broth and froze it into small portions, so I can use one or two portions whenever I make soup or somthing that calls for chicken broth.  This is how I did it:

Fill a stock pot half full with water
Boil a chicken carcass (I had saved the cornish game hen carcasses in the freezer since Thanksgiving, so it’s not actually chicken broth) an onion, a carrot and a ton of salt for an hour or so
Take out the carcass and pick off the meat.
Put the bones back in the pot and boil for another hour
Drain the broth with a colander into a bowl
Pour the broth into whatever container you want and freeze

I saved a bunch so we could eat chicken soup today.  The rest I froze in a muffin tin.  I still have three more carcasses to get through.  The broth is really strong so I’ll probably only use one or two at a time.  I love cooking with broth; it makes almost anything taste yummier.

Here’s the muffin-shaped pieces:

AND

Today we went to DI and we found a few things we need.  Then we were just wandering and I saw a real rocking chair -not a glider- for only $10.  I kind of wanted to buy it since I want a rocking chair and they can be very expensive.  But it was short and small and not very comfortable.  Then as Samuel was buying our stuff I went to the antiques/collectibles area and saw another rocking chair!  It was the nice big kind, in really good condition, for only $35!  So we bought it!

Technically I’m trying not to buy big things since we’ll be moving next summer.  But we’re taking hardly any of our furniture, so I thought the rocking chair would be ok.  Sadly, we don’t really have room to use it now. One of the coolest parts about this chair is that it had another price sticker underneath the $35 one, for $75!  Woohoo! I am so excited about this chair!  It’s perfect.  It’s kind of distressed-looking but isn’t rough or splintered or anything.  It looks very pretty and old-fashioned in person.  I think I might sand it and spray varnish it though.  I will ask my father-in-law for advice.
To make it perfect I just need to get a fluffy sheepskin pelt for a cushin/back drape.  MMM.  My dream chair.