Thursday, July 31, 2008

Interesting and amazing day!

Busy for us day.

Early this morning I went for my moment of truth to get that fasting blood work done Ala natural, without any medications for an entire week.
I have been told by the Vampira that committed the act of removing a portion of my life's existence, a vile of my blood that the doctor should have the results by Tuesday. My day of reckoning for whether or not I will need any drugs, cholesterol or blood pressure meds that is.

From there we came home since we had to check in with our darling Skipper, our Bichon Frise who knew we were going to go somewhere and refused to go out to do his business as we euphemistically used to say. And the remainder of our time at home was planing what we had to do next.

Our major decision was to stop at the Home Depot for prices on a project, a repair of our seawall, and for some shade cloth for our fish pond. We also needed to get some insecticide for the lawn. We parked and saw two shopping carts to the left of the front doors. One had flower remnants in it and the other looked clean, but guess what it did have in it... a dirty dollar bill! My husband smiled and said loudly that they are paying us to use the shopping carts, look a dollar! He later confessed he thought someone might claim it, but no one did. Finders keepers, I guess.
Interesting to find out what others may have done in the same situation?
When I was still in elementary school I walked there daily and one day I found quite a few bills, maybe it was ten on my walk, and honesty made me feel the need to turn them into the principles office when I arrived at school. I never did find out if the owner showed up, and I always wondered.
Anyway, while there our other mission was to find out how to contact the manufacturer of our two outdoor molded plastic sinks that had valves that were broken and consequently they did not work properly. The gardening department people didn't seem to know anything about them. They are now only sold online, the two cost over $170 when purchased and I really hated the idea they were now just junk. We used one on our dock for fish cleaning and the other one on the patio for gardening projects, potting plants, washing hands, etc.
As a last resort, on our way nearly out of the store I mentioned to my husband why not try the plumbing department for the valves, and the person there seemed to be quite knowledgeable. He gave my husband the toll free phone number for the company, and my husband called this small firm in Minnesota, and they said they were sorry it happened and that they will be sending us two new sinks in 8 to 10 days! Since they didn't have the part.
Incredible in this day and age! An old fashioned business ethic where the customer IS always right, and they are the reason we stay in business; wow impressive!
This company, which I will highly recommend is Backyard Gear, and is sold at Home Depot and I also believe at Sears.

After the depot we went onto Sam's Club for gas, coffee, and other inexpensive items of the non perishable species. Gas is usually at least 9 cents less a gallon, and the coffee is usually 3 dollars less than the grocery.

Last stop was filling up our propane tank for our outdoor grill, and that was done at Ace Hardware, which was on the way home, and that price went up again another dollar! But we do enjoy barbecuing! And I think it saves a little on our electric oven/stove bill use.

That's all for now.
Have a great evening to all, and we will too.

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