Hot - hot - hot!

November 25, 2006 (12:15pm)
46º F, Cloudy, NE wind 1 mph.

Good afternoon,

Another Saturday is here. Not too sure where all of the days and weeks are disappearing to. Seems like they just wiz by. The past week or so has been very mild. The weatherman keeps pushing the snow forecast further and farther down the calendar. Now it looks like it will not get here until the end of next week, rather than the Monday and Tuesday of yesterday. Seems the temperature remains too high for snow and it will be some rain instead. Pretty heavy too from the sound of it. That stuff is really hard to shovel too! We are still setting high temperature records too.

I did manage to stagger over to Green Bay fairly early yesterday morning. Margriet stayed home to do some messing around here. The store I went to for ink was on the other side of the town and was regretting the drive across. As it turned out, downtown was almost a ghost town! There was more traffic on Kewaunee’s main drag, then on Main Street in Green Bay. It seemed I was the only one driving on the street. For much of the ride - I was! Most of the "big-box" stores and the malls had insanely early opening hours and some highly advertised, limited sale items. They were mobbed with folks looking for a big deal. Some had been camped out for 24 hours. Crazy! I have no interest in things like that. Don’t need nuttin’ that bad. I think there were a few folks injured trying to get into the doors first at a couple of stores too. Really crazy!

The store I went to, Office Depot, had provided a $20.00 off coupon on any HP product I bought. The total price for two black tanks of ink was $7.00 and change. That is a good deal and certainly worth the prospect of a tough drive across town. Ont only that, but then I got two more coupons, one for $10.00 and one for $5.00, after the purchase. Guess they really do want business. If it happens that I have some needs to fit the coupons, I certainly will buy there.

Office Depot has some super specials too, but that is not why I was there and there were not that many folks in the store either. More staff than costumers than buyers I think. The staff was probably tripled over normal times. One really good deal was a 19" flat screen monitor for $120.00 rather than the normally $480.00. Didn’t buy any. I already have one, just not flat. I am sure there were other things on sale there, but not yesterday for me.

On the return, I stopped at the grocery store as long as I really was in the neighborhood. I really was surprised at how empty the store was. They only had two checkout lanes open. Normally they would have had 12-15 lanes open, plus a couple of express lanes. No waiting in line to check out either. I did find a pretty good bargain on bananas though. Got over 5# for 79¢. Margriet got most of them into the dehydrator for future use. The rest will probably be eaten and some for banana bread - I hope.

As soon as I got home, I loaded the new ink tank and got after printing out the Naturalization papers for Margriet. That job is complete and it is now up to her to get the filled out and the stuff needed to send them in. Have to wait for her new Green Card I think, but not too sure. It probably will take her that long to get everything together.

Margriet was rather busy the last couple of days. While I was gone, she started a big batch of granola. That stuff sure smells good during the making process. Sure tastes good during the eating process too. My kids used to gobble it down. It is a lot better for body than normal cold cereal from the store. She also built a few gallons of Russian tea mix. It seems to go through her rather rapidly. Guess she likes it.

Sunday is "apple Sunday" at church, so she is in the process of building an apple flip. Kinda’ like a filled apple Kringle in looks. Don’t think she will allow be to check the quality of it before bringing it to church tomorrow to have with coffee after the service. Suspect we might not have to go out for lunch after church!

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><