Tuesday, January 20, 2009

1/20/09 A Day for Shopping

Today we had a tag along to the Olive Mill in Queen Creek. Quite a few signed up for this day trip so I handed out maps and crossed names off of the list of participants to make sure everyone who was supposed to go was there. All present and accounted for, I then met up with Ann to get some shopping done.

Since our much awaited for Strawberry Shortcake Dessert Night is tomorrow night we thought it a good idea to go get the ingredients we need to make the homemade biscuits and real whipped cream.

We thought to be on the safe side we had better get some more strawberries, we certainly didn't want to fall short there! Our first stop was Fry's grocery store where I bought all the other strawberries. Strawberries that were 2 quarts for $3.00. No longer! How about $3.99 a quart? Oh no, this wouldn't do! We did get the flour, sugar, baking powder and a few other things on our list.

We went to Food City next in search of cheaper strawberries and in that store we couldn't find any at all. Just as we were leaving we saw the produce man and asked him if he had any. It just so happens he was pushing a cart and they were loaded on there. At $2.49 a quart! We pulled out a few of plastic see through boxes and felt lucky to have found them.

Next stop was Walmart. We got the rest of the things on our list and then went to the house wares department. There were some things we needed to replace in the kitchen because they were broken or just plain old. We also picked up some more items that are just nice to have and will make life easier for us when we have a large lunch or dinner to prepare. And we do have more than a few meals to prepare for large groups.

When the work day was done Bob and I joined our neighbors across the street for awhile. They had bought dipping oils and breads from the Olive Mill today and were having a tasting party. Kind of makes me wish we had gone now!

Tonight Bob played pool and I spent my time getting this blog caught up. Now if only I could keep it that way!

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