One of my weekly chores is to do the grocery shopping at Costco of course. I usually go on Monday at noon after my golf in the morning. This week I had a run in with the Costco Pirates. My first experience - - same old routine, grab a cart, this week I took a pizza from the cooler at the entrance and placed it on the bottom of the cart then I went to the front to ditch the cart so I could get my lunch at the food court prior to shopping. I placed a shirt in the basket so the cart would not be nabbed. After my lunch, I came back to my cart - for some reason my pizza was gone but the shirt and cart were still there. I put the shirt up and went back for another pizza then finish my shopping. My second experience - got all the items and was headed down the main isle, had to get some milk, left the cart which was very full, got the milk then returned to the cart, it was gone!! I looked in the immediate area while carrying the milk - the cart was not to be found. The milk was getting heavy so I put it back to look harder for the cart. I spent the next 10 to 15 minutes walking up and down all the aisles. No luck - I was not excited about starting over - - but ran out of options so headed back to the entrance to get a new cart. I got almost back to the entrance and there was my full cart in the middle of the isle. I was thankful to find it but a bit perplexed about the whole experience(s). The lesson learned for me was keep your cart with you at all times!!
Kathy has taken on another project for the week end. She is taking a craft class online the students complete various projects then post the results of the work. The students are international and she enjoys the cultural variations. She is almost half way through the class - should be done by the end of the summer. She always seems to reflect on how fast the week ends pass. Her time is already committed to these projects. She is having great fun with the projects and is learning allot from the teacher and other students. My week end was filled with lots of yard work. All the trees and bushes are growing so fast. I filled both of my 2 yard waist cans with trimming from 1 pepper tree and 4 orange tress that are in the court yard. Last week, I heard that it is OK to start trimming back the fruit trees in the Summer. I have always waited for the Fall. Next week I will work on them, my yard waste cans get emptied on Tuesday. This yard work sure keeps my busy - I don't need any other projects.
Trim a tree:
So like I get up at half past 8 this morning and Ron already has the trees trimmed. Next, he goes out for a run....
...and I stay at home and do art!
Mixed Media:
Paper Crafts:
Golf was fun as usual, got to play 3 times, had a great time. On Thursday, I had a golf ball sale. The fellow from Modesto wanted 100 balls and was a little fussy initially as he was concerned that he might be getting some garbage balls. I assured him that would not happen. I met him and after he looked at the balls he asked if I had another 100? I usually don't carry extra balls but I did manage to find 6 dozen balls in the car. He took them as well and went on his way as a happy camper. I did pretty good on balls found as well, got my avearge of 250 or more. On Wednesday - 4th of July, I came home with 92. I went out early to beat the heat and the crowd - played the back 9 first so that the 4 sums could get in front on me on the front 9. That was a great move as I had the course to myself, even doubled back to play the back 9 again before I headed to the front 9. Overall it was a great week on the course.
We did not do much for the 4th - got some minor chores done. It was sure noisy, the hood was busy with fireworks during the evening. Tessie did not like all the noise, I took Tessie on walk later in the evening and there was lots of folks in the streets with their fire works. We missed the fire works in Redding once again - maybe we can see it next year. They have a great show - paper said they had 10 K people watching the fire. It ran for about 25 minutes and costs about $25K. They sure had a quick show in San Diego, theirs went up in one show - less than 30 seconds and that one cost of $80K. That computer error will cost someone lots of money?
Hope you all have a great week end!!
More later
Ron, Kathy, Tessie and Sammie
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