Book Board Chat

When I came back here from New York, I had an awful time since the store here does have people to bag and carry out your groceries...usually I'll take my own, unless I have a 20 pound bag of dry cat food plus the other things...and I would try to tip the people helping me get groceries to my car. They will not accept a tip. Even supervisors or other checkers will answer the call to "carry out on 4, please". In other towns, too, there's help out with groceries. I always ask the checkers to pack the bags full - I usually carry them in myself and I hate having 5 little bags when it could fit into two. It weighs the same, after all. I am glad I still can carry things, but my breathing is not good, so I'll huff and puff for awhile. JoAnne, and Diane, also: do you have one of those rolling walkers with the seat that flips down? Those are such a godsend. Dan fought about trying one of those when he had such back pain, but I got him one from the senior center to try, and he ended up liking it! He hasn't needed it since the fusion, but still uses a go=cart to get around Walmart on our monthly trip...that's a big store to walk around in. Me? I walk, and usually end up out of breath by the time I load the thing full of cat supplies and our own things. I try not to buy much else there. Certainly not meat, sometimes a few things on special, but I'd rather give the Dollar store in our town the business. Family Dollar merged with Dollar Tree (I think that's the one) - and the store here keeps expanding and expanding its choice of products - soda, vitamins and otc drugs, canned goods and so on...it's cheaper than Walmart and convenient too. I have a good memory for prices and watch things like that. Even their cat food is as inexpensive, except that the variety simply isn't there. Oh! Today I drove to a nearby town to pick up an 18 pound box of Flathead bing cherries (from Northern MT) - I split them with our neighbor, Jesse, since Dan doesn't care for them. I guess I'll put a cupful or so into little sandwich bags and freeze them, and enjoy them in the dead of winter. They aren't as good as fresh, but I can at least get my bing cherry fix. They were just over $2 a pound this way, when they've been about 4.00 in the stores. Beautiful, big dark cherries! Fruit is horrendously expensive, and not all that good - I see apricots selling for about $4 a pound!! Peaches and Nectarines and plums are around $1.49/lb, which isn't at all bad right now, but they're hard as rocks. Oh, for the good old days.