Your general store sounds a bit like the orchard market where I shop sometimes. Ours isn’t as big as yours, but it sounds similar in certain ways.
My lovely neighbor surprised us by bringing over apple cider doughnuts baked at the orchard market bakery this morning! They were still warm! I love her to pieces!! The doughnuts were so yummy! Plus, she baked us some raspberry muffins, too! (She’s a talented baker!)
I wouldn’t know many people here in Indiana if she hadn’t first asked me to join a neighborhood book club over 10 years ago. I do love reading, but I don’t like being told what to read.
So that worked for about a year. Before I knew it, I was asked to join card club as a substitute. First, I had to learn how to play euchre. Well, there’s an app for that! Now, I’m one of the regulars, but without my sweet backyard neighbor, I would never have met these other great people.
As you become more accustomed to your new house, neighbors, and area, I hope you will find new *lovely* places to do your shopping, as I have. Be blessed, my FRiend!
Yesterday & today have been ‘glorious’, sunny & spring like! The high today will be 74, yesterday was about 70.
Mom & I had cleaned up the back yard & had a huge burn pile, but it is fire season ... can’t burn until after 4 & our Knoll is almost always windy. Yesterday, I noticed
the wind was forecast at 5 mph, not 5-10 or 5-15. It looked like our chance to burn & after getting home around 5, with virtually no breeze at all, we got the whole pile burned - it took until just after sunset. While I tended to the fire in the back, mom started picking up sticks in the front & carried them back to go on the burn pile - probably got 90% of the front done, which was a huge accomplishment.
Around 3, an elderly relative asked if I could come help take her cat to the vet. Something had bitten his leg & he was feeling poorly. The cat sort of knows me - if I am visiting, he hangs around for chin scratches, etc - having had cats, I know what they like. Still, getting a cat in a carrier can be a challenge. He was sleeping on a chair, so I rubbed his head, scratched his chin as he was waking up. Then I picked him up & put his head/shoulders in the carrier at which point he was like ‘nah, I don’t think so!’ I didn’t let him back out just held him there - he resisted twice more trying to back out, then gave up & walked on in. Yay - successful cat wrangle! I went with the relative to the vet - carrier is too heavy for her to carry. Two antibiotic shots & some liquid oral steroids (administered by the vet) & we were out of there. Hopefully, the cat won’t hold it against me that I am now the ‘cat carrier’ lady.
The asphalt contractor has been working on our new front driveway the last 2 days. It’s all dug out & we should get gravel tomorrow. After that, it will probably be 3-4 months before actual asphalt goes down.
The contractor & I were talking in the front yard yesterday when we both saw the same thing and exclaimed almost in unison “bald eagle”!! It must have come off the river & was taking a look around the area - beautiful bird!