Monday

I just looked out to check on Biggie and discovered he's been plundering the new terrace shelves looking for treasure... successfully.



I put a flattened Amazon box out there for just in case I needed it and then just stuffed the air bags onto a shelf for the same reason. Biggie's right. Silly to keep the airbags. They will go into the recycling when I finish this.

Yesterday I went to the internet to find salad making tools. I need a new cutting board situaion - board/stand/something and maybe a different size mixing bowl or something. The internet failed me (mainly because I just don't know what I'm looking for). So today I'm going to go stretch my legs at Goodwill and see if there is an answer there. They have a robust cooking/kitchen stuff section. I can take the stuff I'm using that isn't working for me and donate it. Goodwill is my 'library' of stuff. I check out and return with vigor.

Really that's all the plans on tap. There is baseball tonight. I have a new knitting project, just the usual.

on loan

In the 70's, you could rent books from the corner shops in Manhattan - bodegas. They all had a small collection of the current best selling novels and they loaned them out for a price. I have no recollection of what that price was except it was cheap. (They may still do that, I have no idea.)

But, that's what Goodwill feels like to me. I buy things there, use them for a bit and then return them.

This weekend I was looking at salad slicers like this one but... it just seemed too iffy and pricey to pull the triggr on.

Today I found one just like it, in the box, clearly never even used for $3. It's now here in my kitchen in the new wire basket I got to hold the smallish wooden cutting board that I also got.

I love my Goodwill store.

Also I tried two new Trader Joe's things. Butter Waffle Cookies which are just plain delicoius. And their Pimento Cheese Dip. The latter is excellent and I'm very picky about my pimento cheese. I'm going to have to go back there soon and stock up on more. I'm sure it's a seasonal item that will disappear immediately.