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Motorized buggies at the store

by Mary Anne

I appreciate the fact that Wal-Mart has those motorized carts available for the people with disabilities, I really do. In recent months, my hubby has been shopping with me on mornings, and he utilizes those carts when he comes with me. He needs one to get around such a large store.

We are early birds; we get up around 4 – 5 am every morning. We have a Wal-Mart that is open 24/7, so we try to get our shopping done really early in the morning before the crowds hit.

We were sorely disappointed yesterday when we arrived at our Wal-Mart around 7am and found that we could not even get to the motorized carts; they were blocked by one of those machines that they use in the parking lots to retrieve the regular shopping carts. It took me over ten minutes to find an employee that was willing to move that thing out of our way.

Once that was done, we found that only one of the motorized carts had been plugged in and charged overnight, and it was blocked in by all of the carts that had no charge at all and could not be moved easily. We could not find an employee to move the “dead” carts out of the way, so my hubby and I were forced to try to drag the “dead” carts by ourselves to get to the “live” cart.

Very frustrating, very disappointing.


Tackle box

by Mary Anne

Recently I was looking for a place to keep some of my crafting supplies, and I went to a couple of stores that specialize in crafts. The stores had a lot of storage boxes that looked exactly like the tackle boxes that are used by fishermen (and fisherwomen – I don’t want to be sexist!) Although I did not end up buying a storage box for my craft supplies, I did end up buying a pink tackle-box and brought it home and transferred my personal tools (hammer, screwdriver, drill, etc) into that. I’m hoping that keeping my tools in a pink storage box might help to slow down the evaporative loss of my tools! And I think that I just might paint the handles of my tools pink, or wrap them with pink duct tape too! After all, REAL men don’t use pink tools, do they?


Flower boxes

by Mary Anne

This is the time of year when I enjoy going to different nurseries in the area and see what beautiful window boxes they have on display and for sale. One of my favorite ways to make my own house more attractive is by lining the sides of the porch with flower boxes that are filled with blooming annuals.

My favorite way to do that is to take an empty windowbox and put some peastone or gravel in the bottom of it, then take the purchased annuals (still in their flower pots) and set them inside the window box. Pack them as tightly as possible, and then fill in around the pots with cedar mulch. My grandmother taught me this method when I went up to the farm to visit her in the summertime, and every time I prepare the window boxes I am reminded of the good times I had with my grandparents on the farm. This method is quick and easy to do, and by swapping out the annuals as they fade I can keep the porch looking pretty for a very long time.


Where is a Lighter When I Need One?

by Mary Anne

No one in my household smokes cigarettes, so I would think it logical to assume that if I buy a multi-pack of lighters that they would still be in the kitchen drawer. I know I bought a muli-pack at Christmas for five dollars and put it in the junk drawer by the phone in case we needed one to light the gas furnace or maybe a candle if the electricity goes out in a storm.

So I went to the junk drawer today and was shocked to find just the empty cardboard wrapper in the drawer and not a single lighter in there! Who on earth has been taking the lighters? And what have they been using them for?


What a difference a couple of hours makes

by Mary Anne

We usually get up really early Sunday mornings to do our grocery shopping.  We are usually out of the store by 8am.  Well, I wasn’t feeling very well and didn’t sleep well, so we didn’t even leave the house until 7:45am.  We got to the store about 8:05am.

Boy was the store extremely crowded!  I really did not expect it to be that crowded that early!  We had to stand in the checkout line for over an hour!  We didn’t get home until 11:30!

I guess in the future I’ll have to just bite the bullet and force myself to get up and go early no matter what.


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