Post office – check
Reason 1 – Mail five jewelry sales and one poetry book sale at the local post office.
Reason 2 – Buy packing tape because the tape I had from our move is “lost!”
Look up post office hours on the internet before driving into town.
Note they are closed for two hours over the lunch hour.
Go around the block to find parking.
The entire main street is ripped up and closed off.
Still.
Park across from the place that sells rocks – big rocks.
Walk to the post office, avoiding the rubble on the road.
Look both ways before crossing the street, even though there is no traffic!
Notice a path is worn through the grass to the door.
Library – check
Reason – Return the read, borrowed books that are due in two days.
Find more books.
Go into stacks to find more from the same author I just read. Yeah, I do that.
William Kent Krueger, it’s you and your books. You’ve written a lot!
Decide not to speak to the clerk about volunteering at an upcoming book sale, as the woman is not the same person I met a few weeks ago. Thus, she is not the head librarian. I’ll stop back.
Note library hours.
Leave.
Dollar Store – check
Reason – need dog bones and antihistamine. Iced tea would be nice too.
Try not to run over a lady crossing the parking lot without looking.
Note to self.
This happens here too. People walk and don’t look.
Enter the dollar store and look for the bottled iced tea.
Note to self. They must not sell this.
Look for dog bones.
Stand in the doggie aisle too long looking at all the options.
Decide on dog bones.
Get done bone gift for our “grand-dog” whom we were supposed to see today but are now seeing next week.
Look for antihistamine. Get generic.
Much cheaper but not as cheap as Walmart.
Note to self.
Buy more at Walmart next time we go.
Hike in the woods – rained out.
Comfort dog for 45 minutes while she shakes during the thunder.
Errands
What are your errands like where you live? I’ve lived in large cities, small cities, suburbs, and now in a rural area. We are trying to make lists and minimize unnecessary trips to town. So far, so good!
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