I don't go to Wal Mart frequently. I may go once or twice a month, and sometimes not even that often. I like to go when I have plenty of time to cruise though the store hunting for bargains. When I find what I consider a good deal, what I need or what I want, I make a beeline to the sub shop. There, I can rest and watch America indulge, and say, "No wonder so many people in this country obese. We are not a fat and happy nation; we are just obese.
One man with a cart had many cases of soft drinks. Yeah, sugar! Mostly people were buying pre-packaged meal. I do buy some meals in box form because they have a certain convenience to them. I imagine they are a God Send to many working mothers and for the elderly or disabled. But if you check the labels for ingredients you won't be all that happy with what you find. Lots of starches, fats and chemicals all combined to make it all "so good." I won't go into lots of detail because I know you can read. Do your home work and don't say the dog ate it.
Today I found some Artisan baked bread. I usually don't buy this kind of bread because it is expensive. For a dollar for one loaf and 90 cents for the other, I couldn't resist. Into the freezer for one loaf and the other I will keep out for meals.
Another educational observation was of big, heavy women riding around on the scooters that are meant for the handicapped or disabled. I know I shouldn't be judgemental, but I can't help thinking that walking or cruising the store just might be good for what ails them. I know. You can't tell what ails anyone or judge a book by its cover, by what is visible to the eye or by what seems apparent, but a lot of people are just too heavy. That includes me; at least I know it and admit it. Oh, to get rid of 20 pounds or more. Another observation; men seldom ride the scooters. I have seen men so old and feeble that they can hardly get about the store, but they are walking. Makes me feel bad for them.
Today I went to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned. He has a new computer camera to take pictures of ones teeth. Of course, they found two new cavities with an abscess in the root of one. What else is new? At least one more root canal starting next week and at least one filling. And I thought I was starting to see light at the end of the money tunnel. Nope. Not gonna happen.
Don't wonder about how hot it was today. I don't know because I didn't watch the weather. I know it will be hotter tomorrow on Tuesday and I am staying inside. This has been a long, hot, dry summer. Blame it on Bush? Obama will...LOL!
No good sales to be had this week. Another good reason not to go out in the heat. Four letter words; snow, heat, rain, darn, darn and darn. I'll be glad when the summer is over.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
mowing
This, being a decent day, inspired me to get out and mow the back yard. It smells so good, like newly cut hay. I did some trimming. It was really in dire need of some sweat equity. The weeds are growing in from the other side of the fence. I will have to use the pruner for some of it because little tree are creeping in from the other side of the fence along with the weeds. I used the weed whacker for a lot of it, and I am not finished yet. Only once in all the time that I have lived here has Doris rented out to someone that actually took care of that yard.
Tomorrow I need to pick off some Roma Tomatoes. The tomatoes that I planted for cooking-eating-canning, have not done well at all. There are a few green tomatoes coming on, but they are small, and it is already August. I may have to buy some if I want to can them. I love home made tomato juice, and I don't have much left.
Today I either lost or misplaced my debt card when I went for gas for the mower. I called the bank post haste and put that card out of commission. I will get a new card in about 10 days. In the meantime I will rely on that old fashioned check book, It takes a little longer to write out a check, but it will work just the same. I am sure Wal-Mart will be happy to have it.
I'm trying to be more careful with my punctuation, spelling, sentence structure and general composing. It would be nice if we had a return to good English that was readable. I can barely comprehend some of the comments or postings on Face Book. I hope that what I write is readable and makes sense. You know what they say; You teach or lead by example. As no one really reads my blog I will do very little teaching by example. So, I will do it for my own satisfaction and desire to do better. I do have a love affair with commas. I just love commas. I stick them everywhere,,,,see? I also like hyphens. They help separate words that can be ambiguous-LOL. I will have to get some of my old books out and re-teach myself.
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Tomorrow I need to pick off some Roma Tomatoes. The tomatoes that I planted for cooking-eating-canning, have not done well at all. There are a few green tomatoes coming on, but they are small, and it is already August. I may have to buy some if I want to can them. I love home made tomato juice, and I don't have much left.
Today I either lost or misplaced my debt card when I went for gas for the mower. I called the bank post haste and put that card out of commission. I will get a new card in about 10 days. In the meantime I will rely on that old fashioned check book, It takes a little longer to write out a check, but it will work just the same. I am sure Wal-Mart will be happy to have it.
I'm trying to be more careful with my punctuation, spelling, sentence structure and general composing. It would be nice if we had a return to good English that was readable. I can barely comprehend some of the comments or postings on Face Book. I hope that what I write is readable and makes sense. You know what they say; You teach or lead by example. As no one really reads my blog I will do very little teaching by example. So, I will do it for my own satisfaction and desire to do better. I do have a love affair with commas. I just love commas. I stick them everywhere,,,,see? I also like hyphens. They help separate words that can be ambiguous-LOL. I will have to get some of my old books out and re-teach myself.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Bacon
The today I went to E'ville to shop some good sales that I had planned on going to all week long. I got some good deals in the way of buying groceries and stocking up. Imagine my surprise when I found bacon on sale for...99 cents per packages! When was the last time you saw bacon at that price? It wasn't even advertised. We just happened to be in the right store at the right time. I bought five packages, but my friend Debbie bought 16. She has kids and grand kids, so that was a good deal for her, too.
Fresh mushrooms were a dollar a tray. Turkey Cheese Franks were a buck per package. Frozen Chopped Spinach was 99 cents. Sliced Bologna and sliced Salomi lunch meat was $1.00 a pack so I got five of each. Also, I bought frozen Vegetable Steamers bags to go into the freezer along with the other goodies. In another store I found regular hot dogs for .77 cents. I spent about $35.00, but was prepared to buy more, but it was hot and I wanted to get home and put the food in the freezer.
The phone was ringing before I left home this morning. The phone was ringing after I got home in the late afternoon/early evening. I didn't answer it. Not because I am of mean intent, but I just didn't have the time to listen. I imagine the phone rang while I was gone. and will ring again tomorrow. I intend to be busy getting yard work done...can't answer the phone.
I forgot to mention that we went to the Chinese restaurant before we went shopping. Yes, it was good.
It is supposed to be a decent day for Saturday; hot, but lower humidity. It is supposed to ramp up again into the triple digits next week-very hot-no rain-high humidity again...darn, darn, darn.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Still on the warm side
Not much excitement in the world of blogging. The sun relented a little bit today and the temperatures dropped back down into the 90's. A slight improvement, but still a little on the warm side. I know it can be pretty hot in August and even into September. I have seen really nice Novembers. Who can tell what is in store for us now that the solar flares are active again.
I went out for a very short time, just to go to the bank. I noticed that gas is up again. It jumped back up to $2.75, just in time for the S.S., disability and welfare checks and food stamps to be received. Watch for it to happen at the beginning of each month, every holiday and for every nice week-end that is predicted. It is a "screw you" economy. We are a welfare nation. We are a bankrupt country. We live by the dictates of a corrupt Congress. We ignore "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. We will pay. Actually, we are paying right now, aren't we. This a statement, not a question.
Go to the following well-researched web site and read well. You can not depend on the regular news for accurate information on the state-health of this nation. So, do your homework.
http://www.thecomingdepression.blogspot.com/
What I would like to know is how you can have a"jobless recovery?" Does it not take jobs to "oil the machines?" Explain that to me.
All I can say and urge people to do is to STOCK UP, STOCK UP, AND STOCK UP SOME MORE.
On a personal observation, I think that Face Book is dumbing down the nation. It is a nice social network, but the younger generations can't seem to write a complete sentence, spell or use half-way proper grammar. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think I am not.
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I went out for a very short time, just to go to the bank. I noticed that gas is up again. It jumped back up to $2.75, just in time for the S.S., disability and welfare checks and food stamps to be received. Watch for it to happen at the beginning of each month, every holiday and for every nice week-end that is predicted. It is a "screw you" economy. We are a welfare nation. We are a bankrupt country. We live by the dictates of a corrupt Congress. We ignore "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. We will pay. Actually, we are paying right now, aren't we. This a statement, not a question.
Go to the following well-researched web site and read well. You can not depend on the regular news for accurate information on the state-health of this nation. So, do your homework.
http://www.thecomingdepression.blogspot.com/
What I would like to know is how you can have a"jobless recovery?" Does it not take jobs to "oil the machines?" Explain that to me.
All I can say and urge people to do is to STOCK UP, STOCK UP, AND STOCK UP SOME MORE.
On a personal observation, I think that Face Book is dumbing down the nation. It is a nice social network, but the younger generations can't seem to write a complete sentence, spell or use half-way proper grammar. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think I am not.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
102 plus degrees
Yes, we made it up to 102 degrees on the thermometer and some places were even hotter. It was a good day to stay in and delve deeper into my book "ATLAS SHRUGGED." Everyone should read this book. It is everything that Glenn Beck has been trying to get across to us, but it was written over 50 year ago and published in 1957. I had read it before, but had forgotten it, so it is all "new" again. It a good educational fiction. It is also a very thick book so be prepared for a reading fest.
I finished off my dumplings today-all of them-because I didn't want to cook anything. I didn't want to go out to eat, either. Just to hot to move. Tomorrow I will just fry some eggs and call it a meal or two. It is supposed to be cooler, in the upper or mid-nineties, or so they say. In the same breath they say the humidity will be lower and that it may rain...which is it?
"You know who" has called me three times today with all the same b.s. that I have heard over and over. It cuts into my day. Anytime I start something the phone rings and it is time wasted for me. She is bored; I am not. She has someone to help her around the house; I do not. Her husband gets home early and cooks a big meal for her. She drives me crazy.
If it is half way decent tomorrow I will get out and go to Wal Mart or someplace...away from the phone...way away.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Vegetating
Too, too hot to post
Too, too hot to write
Too, too hot to think
100 degrees today
Hotter tomorrow
Heat index 118
I did make dumplings today in spite to the heat. Carried fresh water out to the bird bath. Came right back in. It has been this hot before, but not for a long time. It will be again. The weather pattern is cyclical. Not much going on in this heat. School starts here in just a week.
The computer does not like the heat and has a tendency to misbehave. Besides, it is too hot to do anything other than vegetate. So I will vegetate and hope that I don't grow roots.
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Too, too hot to write
Too, too hot to think
100 degrees today
Hotter tomorrow
Heat index 118
I did make dumplings today in spite to the heat. Carried fresh water out to the bird bath. Came right back in. It has been this hot before, but not for a long time. It will be again. The weather pattern is cyclical. Not much going on in this heat. School starts here in just a week.
The computer does not like the heat and has a tendency to misbehave. Besides, it is too hot to do anything other than vegetate. So I will vegetate and hope that I don't grow roots.
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Lazy days of summer
The lazy days of summer are caused by the high heat and humidity that has enveloped mid-America. It is supposed to be 99-100 tomorrow and very hot for the next few days. I am sure half of America wishes it would snow like it did in Colorado(hail)the other day.
When Steven Foster wrote the song about "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME" he probably had a Mint Julep in hand, sitting on an open veranda and someone was probably fanning him to keep him cool, you know, one of those "darkies" that were so happy and gay. Oh, Steven foster, what a different world it is today, but it is still HOT!
I didn't get much done and didn't look for anything to do. I washed a few dishes, cleaned the stove and sterilized the sink so I could put peaches in the sink for scalding. Then I goofed off for a while before I went to the task of skinning/peeling the peaches. I put the skinned peaches in the refrigerator. You know, you just can't do this without eating at least one. And are they good.
Six of them are not skinned. They were picked too early from the tree. One side would be rip and the other side would be green, so those six are about half mutilated from trying to skin them.
I have perhaps four or five qts. to freeze tomorrow. It may be less because I put them in a six qt container and it is hard to judge just how much is there until I freeze them. I wish I had more, but they are so expensive to buy on a limited budget.
There is a sale of 10 for $10.00 sale going on this week across the river. I intend to get 10 veggie steamer packages, 10 packs of hot(turkey)dogs and 10 packages of hot(turkey)dogs and 10 packages of lunch meat. I don't think I can get much more into the freezer. Then I can become a hermit and stay home. I won't need much more before next summer.
I want to make some home made bread this week, but I will not swear that I will get it done. It isn't the best time of the year for baking. Even Alice has stopped baking except for special orders. For anyone who does not know Alice, she has a stand at the Farmers Market in Clinton Illinois and sells lot of good stuff. She has more courage than I, baking in this heat.
Thus, the day has come and just about went and by the time anyone reads this, it will be gone.
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When Steven Foster wrote the song about "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME" he probably had a Mint Julep in hand, sitting on an open veranda and someone was probably fanning him to keep him cool, you know, one of those "darkies" that were so happy and gay. Oh, Steven foster, what a different world it is today, but it is still HOT!
I didn't get much done and didn't look for anything to do. I washed a few dishes, cleaned the stove and sterilized the sink so I could put peaches in the sink for scalding. Then I goofed off for a while before I went to the task of skinning/peeling the peaches. I put the skinned peaches in the refrigerator. You know, you just can't do this without eating at least one. And are they good.
Six of them are not skinned. They were picked too early from the tree. One side would be rip and the other side would be green, so those six are about half mutilated from trying to skin them.
I have perhaps four or five qts. to freeze tomorrow. It may be less because I put them in a six qt container and it is hard to judge just how much is there until I freeze them. I wish I had more, but they are so expensive to buy on a limited budget.
There is a sale of 10 for $10.00 sale going on this week across the river. I intend to get 10 veggie steamer packages, 10 packs of hot(turkey)dogs and 10 packages of hot(turkey)dogs and 10 packages of lunch meat. I don't think I can get much more into the freezer. Then I can become a hermit and stay home. I won't need much more before next summer.
I want to make some home made bread this week, but I will not swear that I will get it done. It isn't the best time of the year for baking. Even Alice has stopped baking except for special orders. For anyone who does not know Alice, she has a stand at the Farmers Market in Clinton Illinois and sells lot of good stuff. She has more courage than I, baking in this heat.
Thus, the day has come and just about went and by the time anyone reads this, it will be gone.
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