To the market, to the shopping plaza and then to the grocery store and by the end of all of that I must admit to having been tired. As I waited for my groceries to be all packed, I found my mind wandering a bit but rapidly back when I realized that this clerk had remembered to email my receipt and I didn't have to wait for it to print with everything all packed up and we were on our way. It was a long afternoon but then I am nearly 80. I must admit I have toyed with the idea of just having groceries delivered and not bothering with going to the store but it is nice to pick your own produce and of course going to the market is such a treat in the summer with our farmers there selling their produce to us locally. The shopping plaza was collecting up a few birthday presents and some success some failure there so will have to do a little more shopping. I can shop in the early afternoon most of the year and it is very quiet and I am done very quickly. But definitely the clerks ringing up the groceries and packing up in the store should be older people as $205 worth of groceries was jammed into 5 bags when I provide about 20 bags to do that. If my daughter wasn't with me I couldn't have picked up three of them.
We had a lovely meat loaf for dinner - fresh beef and fresh pork. I cook the chopped up vegetables in just a little butter for five minutes and then mix it into the beef, pork and oatmeal along with two eggs, salt and pepper, worcestershire sauce and then pack it into the glass meat loaf dish and cover it with a mixture of ketchup and mustard to keep it moist for the hour of cooking. Along with small potatoes on the side and a couple of salads we had a beautiful dinner and then cold slice meatloaf for a few days. I prefer jellied cold cuts and they are hard to find these days (at least the kinds that I prefer) so the meat loaf will be a nice treat.
Worked on the matches yesterday and completed the fourth page for the third sibling. There are 154 new matches to enter into my databases. Will carry on today with the fifth page checking to see if it is time to go to 2 segments and 1 segment only. I found that five segments on the 4th page did not have any significant matches and four just a couple and the same with three so will check that out first and see how it goes.
Life is slowly settling into the summer time and yesterday I pulled yet another bag of wild flowers this time out of the rhubarb/raspberry bed at the back which also hosts tulips in the spring. Gardening is definitely not my thing but my daughter's sunflowers are springing up (about eight rows of them) which will be lovely to watch in the fall if they survive the bunnies eating up the fresh green.
Early today and will have a nap in a bit after I drink my tea. I think my one room concept continues to come to me these days as the house is too big but not when my daughter is here; I do not need a car actually although it is handy to go and get groceries a couple of times a month when I am alone but that is it; I do not drive anywhere else except to have the tires changed twice a year which I may start to leave for my daughter when she comes at break times (Christmas) and summer research break. But I could just take a taxi back from the grocery store for sure.
A bit of work and then my tea and then a nap!
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