Partying and Shopping

Yesterday I had a Retirement party that I wanted to attend at Queens University  where I used to work up until I retired 8 years ago. It was for my Library Supervisor at the Health Sciences library. It was great to see everyone there and it was good times catching up on everyone's lives. There were a lot of retirees like myself who had been invited back.

Before I left the house however, I decided to pull everything out from the corners and walls in my Craft Room and gave a good dusting and vacuuming. I was able to organize and condense some of my craft items to basically one side of the room, but still within reach. The other side of the room is reserved with bins and some boxes where I am storing most of the unsold items of the yard sale. To this pile I have already added more items that did not make it into this first sale.

After leaving the library, I drove to No Frills on the way home to pick up some grocery items for this coming week.

Produce cost $34.32  $11 each for 2 Kg of berries, $2 each bag of frozen veggies, $2.88 for 4-pk of sweet peppers and $1.44 for  whole mushrooms.

Dairy cost $18.04  $1.97 for each tub of plain yoghurt, $3.77 for each tub of cottage cheese, and $3.28 each for 2 liters of homo milk. Yes, dairy is expensive.

Sorry for the poor photo. Meat cost me $10.65  I picked up some tilapia fillets (I am having some tonight), and 3 pkgs. of chicken legs with backs attached (only 88 cents a pound.) The total grocery bill came to $63.01

Today has been raining off and on, so I made some cards and wrote notes inside, addressed and stamped them so they are ready to go in the mail on Monday. Three of them are encouragement cards and one is a congratulatory card for a young couple who are expecting their first child. During a break in the rain, I left for Amherstview where I picked up a prescription refill that I phoned in yesterday.  I spent a whopping big $65.49 for a very few grocery items, toiletries and medical supplies that I needed for home. Two  items on sale I am putting away for the kids' Advent calendars. I picked up two more containers of cottage cheese because I thought they were on sale, but when I got home I realized I picked up the wrong variety. Darn it. I was able to get two dozen eggs for $1.88 each. This is the best price for eggs anywhere.

As I type up this blog post, I have a robin looking at me from the railing of the verandah....just five feet away. I know they have nests close by but I haven't found them yet. I keep trying to discourage them from building inside my hanging baskets. They try every year. Also, there is a bunny rabbit in my front yard. It surprises me when they come out to the front yard so close to the highway. Usually they stay in the relative safety of the backyard.

Because of the rain today, I did not make it out to weed the front flower beds. Maybe the bunny will take care of that for me. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend, whatever the weather.