But WalMart makes it so dang easy!
I spent several days on the road last week, participating in a wide variety of activities, and whenever there's a minor emergency, there's always a WalMart nearby with just the thing I need.
I spent the first night of my journey at Ft. Myers "Crestfallen Suites." I only have one thing to say about that: it sucks to be poor.
The next morning, I realized I didn't have the right kind of top to wear under my wet suit for a day of fossil digging in the Peace River so I drove straight to the Wauchula WalMart to find what I needed on the clearance rack. I was almost to the checkout with my $4 sports bra when I spotted a shelf of clearance wine. Might as well look!
Hmmm...the label on the Mixed Up Red indicated that it contained cab, merlot, syrah, and zinfandel (all things that I like) as well as having the requisite 13.5% minimum alcohol content that I prefer in a red wine.
And a $5 price tag.
Add 4 bottles of Mixed Up Red to my $4 sports bra. It was a gamble as I didn't actually get to taste the wine until that night, in a city 2 hours away but had I still been in Wauchula, I would've driven back to WalMart and bought every bottle they had. Dang! It's good!
The one thing the Wauchula WalMart didn't have was my current salad dressing obsession, Kraft Asian Toasted Sesame.
As soon as I discovered this dressing, it seemed to disappear from the shelves of every grocer I visited in my range of Florida. Finally, the Sanford WalMart came through. It's not the greatest dressing ever but for some reason, right now, it's all I want.
While in Wauchula, I snapped a photo of this truck with a large bag of peanuts sitting on top of the truck's tool box.
This is the 2nd time I've seen this mode of peanut transport in Wauchula. I've now lived in Florida long enough to know that this man is probably going to take these peanuts home, throw them in a crock pot for a week, destroying their naturally delicious taste and texture and henceforth refer to them as "boiled." What I don't understand is why these people don't secure their peanuts better (or everything else in their truck, for that matter). One sharp turn and those nuts are road kill. Let's hope he doesn't have far to go.
On the subject of trucks and transporting gear, check out this guy's set-up!
Coolest of the cool old-school truck, high-tech streamlined yak, AND a surf board! Are you kidding me?! I felt a little embarrassed to park my flea circus nearby.
I'll be spending some quality time at home for a couple of weeks. I got most of my veggie garden planted, knitted a hat for a friend, and even snuck in a little fossil necklace work for my SolOpsArt Etsy store.
I had to run in to Joann's and couldn't resist checking out the sale beads where I found these wonderful chunky stone beads. They look like little granite bricks to me. They are vaguely labeled "JAS" which usually means jasper but they reflect light like labradorite. Cool!
So I was sitting on my sofa, knitting away, when I glanced down at the pen I keep on the coffee table.
It suddenly occurred to me that this particular pen has not left the coffee table in over a year. Prior to that, every single pen I put there disappeared into Mike's truck within a few days until I got so frustrated I decided to "decorate" the pen, a la banks and shops, in such a way that no one would want to make off with it. I knitted a length of i-cord and attached it to the pen with ugly blue duct tape.
Works like a charm!
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