Hi everyone! Hope all is well in blog land? On Tuesday L and I braved the dire Covid warnings [''necessary errands ONLY''] and we did our annual Christmas outing to the over-the-bridge garden center [post to come soon/ next week?], continuing on to grocery shopping. Both of us had somewhat empty fridges due to NO Thanksgiving and no wonderful TG leftovers.
I was somewhat apprehensive because blog friend Julierose who lives in my metro area, , had been to her grocery story early that morning and she reported empty shelves!!!
Below is my store's paper goods aisle, last week.
Oh no no again. How scary. How annoying. I felt so bad for her, too. I was hoping that the empty shelves, early AM, were due to Monday's big storm and power outages, plus the long holiday weekend with few deliveries. Fingers crossed, lists in hand, off we went.
First stop was the gourmet organic health food market. L double parked while I ran in for my vitamin elixirs, as I cannot take pill form vitamins.
I could live for quite a while on just these stacks of root vegs and squash. This is the fancy version of my regular market so my hopes were up.
L was waiting for me so I couldn't look at the flowers in detail, but as always, abundant and lovely.
Then we headed to a very big, football stadium [not really but big], nice airy clean store that has things we usually cannot find at the local stores. My Triscuits, L's dill pickle chips, lol.
Lots of space, not many customers; many precautions of line spacing and clean carts, and so on, the bulwarks of our 2020 survival now.
This store also had lovely flowers. If closer to Christmas I'd have bought these orchids for my girlfriends. Maybe we'll get back?
They had ample, even lavish amounts of food, good fresh produce selection, deli, cheeses, fresh meats.
I was tempted by these beautiful meatballs, but at $12.oo a package deemed them too expensive. Though I suppose my homemade cost almost as much for the ingredients.
They even had Charmin! I didn't see paper towels though, and in produce, celery was sparse as were avocados [which were very much on sale, for football guacamole, maybe. Like 5 Haas avs for 3.oo. Sold well, scarcity not due to covid shortages.]
But the best thing, the reason for this post, I was so amazed:
This huge store is cleaned by robots! Like giant Roombas, puttering along, oblivious to the humans around them.
I have never seen such a marvelous thing. Isn't he the cutest!
Successful shopping and something new to admire, a good day's work! That said, the very strong winds, 40 mph maybe, were exhausting! So hard to wrestle one's cart to the car, then again into the house.
Let's hope our grocers can continue to stock up for us, and thank the truckers, farmers, factory workers who make the products we want and need.
More soon!
love
lizzy
gone to the beach....
below--too windy for the beach! Baby Mo fights the gusts, wearing his English robins Christmas sweater.
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