Thursday December 26th 2024
I spent Christmas day in Sarasota with friends. We had a nice dinner with good conversation and nice rich desert cake. It was an overall good day.
Today I was on a mission to finish the installation of my new refrigerator. I adjusted the shelves to allow a little more room for tall items and made a run to Walmart to restock the items that probably spoiled in the old frig and the time between appliances.
Walmart was worse today than any of the days leading up to Christmas. In addition to the line of people returning purchases the food aisles were jammed with shopping carts and people. Did people run out of food on the holiday or did they neglect food shopping during the days before Christmas? The lines at the checkouts were also long. At least they had all of the registers open. I think my relatively small shopping event took longer than most of my bigger shopping days.
I didn’t get a chance to return to my furniture building projects in the last few days. I have all the pieces cut for my end table, but need to do a lot of assembly, gluing and sanding. Then it is time for the hard part of staining and applying a few coats of polyurethane that looks good. The weekend is forecast to be rainy, so it may be a few days.
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Sounds like a great day with friends! But, oh my, that chocolate cake would be too rich for me. Not that I don’t have a sweet tooth! We went to Aldi’s yesterday. The store was crowded and was very low on fresh fruit. Seemed odd to me, too. I thought people would have done all their shopping before Christmas. But…what can I say – we were there. Good luck with your furniture building!
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