With this rare Friday post, we’re already a quarter of the way through the “Harvey” sequence, and, if I may say so, the best is yet to come. I’ve been playing around with some tee shirt designs that I hope will be out “just in time for Christmas.” I’ve been saying I was going to do that for 25 years. Maybe finally. I’ve been wracking my brain about what you’d like. Then it occurred to me: I’ll just ask. That is the way we do things around here. Any suggestions? (Sorry, no guarantees!) There’ll be a lot more said about this in the near future.
Hardly Harvey, cont.
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249 responses to “Hardly Harvey, cont.”
Ghost, daughter left Kroger for Whole Foods. She bought natural foods for your district too, worked stores for years. I told her if she hadn’t burned too many bridges to go back, Kroger is powering in on the natural foods markets!
Personally, I miss Piggly Wiggly and Delchamps and a lot of the old stores.
Well, like a lot of small towns, Brookshire’s is the only sheriff in town. They ran the little AG out before I got here but everybody tells me it was terrible. Smelled bad and the ice cream had crystals in it from melting and on and on. Never set eyes on it myself.
I try and support our local businesses. I bought a pair of short overalls from a local store and acted as a model for them. But their selection! I know they have to cater to non-prime-figure people, but still! We get a lot of medical supplies from local pharmacies and office supplies from local stores to support them. We eat lunch at least once a week at local cafes.
Heh, the proprietor of the local hardware store told The Man In My Life that “This is where they come when they can’t find it at Wal-Mart.”
Actually, one of our two local “Pig” stores is still operating. I always liked our now-closed A&P. Also Jitney Jungle, before Winn-Dixie bought them out.
Did you know Jitney Jungle is mentioned in “To Kill a Mockingbird”? And was also featured in the writings of Eudora Welty? I’ll bet that a distinction no other grocery chain can claim. And I’ll bet Jimmy knew that. (He may even have shopped at Miss Welty’s Jitney in the Bellhaven area of Jackson.)
Our DG’s have mostly the milk/bread/eggs/bacon (sorry, Munchkin) type foods, although they recently opened a larger store on the edge of our old “downtown” area that is under-served by food markets, and they may well carry a larger line of groceries. That location is not too close to me, and I haven’t visited it yet, since there is one DG store a half mile south of me and another a mile to the north.
Oh, and when I was in the nearer one yesterday, they were stocking Christmas decorations. Don’t tell Arlo!
Quote of the day: “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
– Jim Rohn, originally posted by Emily Skye
Ghost: “Our DG’s have mostly the milk/bread/eggs/bacon (sorry, Munchkin) type foods” *shrug* It’s not for me, but it beats pigging out on horrid donuts
OF next 1750-1810 CDT.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Oh, my. Roll, tears, roll.
The Egg Bowl could be very interesting this year.
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks! 5
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts…”
…um, what are we lamenting?
the dollar general groceries are pretty nice, if you dont mind store brands (i don’t). did not like kroger’s because they sold national brands at inflated prices and their own brands at the price walmart sold national brands. mom retired from WM and i dont mind shopping there. they put food on our table for years with her salary!
Ok, we’re old. We buy used books, shop at Goodwill and the Dollar Store. BTW, have you seen the video of the guy kicking the cat? I don’t mean that he kicked it. I mean that he was going for a 50 yard field goal! The guy is in jail as well he should be. Yes I will eat a steak tonight. No cow has ever talked with me, sat in my lap, slept with me and came when I called it. Back when I only had a tremor in my left hand and had just recently bought the kitties home I woke up on the bed and found Cilla lying across my left hand. Only an animal? Don’t go there.
Lily, the fact that there are no saints in politics, but the reverse isn’t true?
Jerry, the plain fact is that saints are few and far between in this fallen world, and they don’t seem attracted to politics. The closest I can come up with George Washington. The other side of the coin is that demons seem definitely attracted to it. Look at Hitler.
Ask Alabama fans about lamentations. And don’t get me started on politicians.
I really don’t care much for donuts, either, although I must confess that I have, just a few times, fallen for a freshly fried Krispy Kreme, in much the same way Simp the Fisherman fell for the Lovely Mermaid. But never have I pigged out on them.
Ghost, the Jitney Jungles were close to my heart, founded by a family in my hometown. OK, I lived in country but we shopped in town 21 miles away. Big city of about 3500! They no longer own, sold out but those were good stores and were they EVER profitable!
I used to pay about $300 a year to get a report of all groceries in U.S. and those little stores earned more per square foot than any other in my selling territories which was technically 6 states but in actuality I could sell anyone I could sell if not already being sold. In entire U.S.
Piggley Wiggley was profitable too in those days.
My stone mason is here, need to go speak to him and go take a bath! Spending money is a dirty job and someone has to do it.
Love, Jackie
TCU upset Oklahoma so things are not happy here.
Put any image of Janis in a humorous gardening situation and I can guarantee a minimum of a couple of hundred sales.
So we went to church tonight at 4:30 as I was cantoring. I sang Untitled Hymn by Chris Rice. Here is a version that I did last year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Pgsewu4UE
We then went to Applebees because my Purdue Boilermakers won a Big Ten game after starting Austin Appleby. Yeah it’s a stretch but they have a decent dinner deal.
Tonight we were watching the Mich St/Nebraska game with all three cats cuddling up to us as an unusually cold night hit us here in Royal Oak. Our daughter is an alumni & is at the game. Connor Cook flipped it to Lippet on a long TD pass and my wife started clapping and cheering and scaring the cats right off the couch! Thanks Jimmy, you not only look in my windows, but seem to know what my future holds!
JJ, look into your crystal ball and see if my friends and I will make it safe to the honkey-tonk with her driving like a maniac or if I should get out and walk homw
Our forecast for tomorrow morning is low 40’s, about 15 degrees cooler than this morning, and about 20 degrees lower than a week ago. Pretty mild by Great White North standards, I know, but still a bit chilly for is thin-blooded Southerners. The forecast for tomorrow’s lunch is an 80% chance of jambalaya made with andouille sausage.
Lily: Let us know when you get home, young lady.
ghost, i like the sound of your lunch forecast. wish we could get it here.everybody have a safe and warm night.
High low 40s, but wind went right through tee, long-sleeved polo, and heavy synthetic ‘wool’ pullover. Glad I wore warm hat and gloves to walk to hosp. gym. Woman there was hoping for ‘Indian summer.’ Told her that was the two 80F days one or two weeks back. ‘No, it’s still due.’ Hope springs eternal.
Left out one layer: ‘right through tee, cotton turtleneck, long-sleeved polo, and heavy synthetic ‘wool’ pullover.’
Very nice, Steve – thanks for sharing your music. I have always liked that particular Chris Rice song best of all his songs. I also enjoy Fernando Ortega, especially his “Give Me Jesus” melody. When I hear one of these, I always think of the other.
Here is tonight’s effort. Not bad as I was asked about a minute before Mass if I would not mind singing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDZb7athuU&feature=youtu.be
Granny, I LOVE Fernando and have done Give me Jesus as well as Jesus King of Angels and I Will Sing of my Redeemer. I am good friends with Michael Card and love singing his music as well. Mike is a great author as well.