Wow! Y'all have been busy this week - and it's only Tuesday!!
I hit Rural King after work this morning while waiting for Aldi to open; needed suet and peanuts for my bird feeders. They had a bin of hand warmers on clearance sale, so I snagged two big packages - my coworkers try to freeze me to death, I swear! The hand warmers being on sale led me to check the sock bins as they had wool blend socks on clearance last year around this time - I got lucky and they were on clearance again, so picked up a dozen pair of Lincoln brand merino blend in kid sizes (aka: my size lol!) for $1.46/pair - I wear them year round to work. I was kind enough to pick up a couple pair of grown up size for Hubby as well. Since the 10 year old grandson has passed me up in shoe size, I will probably pick up a few more pair in a smaller adult size for him; the younger grandson still fits in my size. I'll check again on my way home from work Friday morning, and if they have plenty, will pick up 10 more pair for myself to vac seal and put back; probably a few more pair for Hubby and the 10 year old as well. They also had an off brand of disinfecting wipes for 49 cents/80 ct tub so I picked up 4 of those to use in bathroom cleaning since most those I had on hand in the pantry ended up going to the grandsons' schools over this past year.
I stocked up on 20 - 2 pk boxes of onion soup mix and a couple dozen tuna packets in assorted flavors while I was at Aldi - I use the onion soup mix when I can cubes of beef and ground beef; and the tuna packets are about the right size for the base of a meal for Hubby - he makes tuna cassarole for himself (only gets to make it when I'm off work/have already left for work so I don't reek from the smell when I go in - gag!) I'll make a rare batch of tuna salad for us, but he eats most of it; the use by date was 18 months out, so that should take care of our tuna needs for a bit with what I already had on hand. Now to find a good price on salmon...
Popped in to the Evil Empire to re-stock light bulbs after I got done at Aldi - snooped the clearance aisles and found lots and lots of bottles of hand sanitizer on clearance, but didn't pick any up. They also had a bunch of school supplies on clearance, so I am going to pull up last years school supply lists and see what I can knock off their lists at 75%+ off cost when I'm on my way home from work on Friday morning.
Hubby said one of his younger co-workers is buying a different race bike (motorcycle) and was checking financing; he has over half the price saved up, but the interest rates are 16-19%!!! No credit history since he's a young'un, but dang!! I thought I was back in the late 70's/early 80's again! Told Hubby to offer him a loan at 8%; he's thinking about doing so - not like he doesn't know where the kid lives/works lol!
The neighbor lady who has had a greenhouse business for a couple of years has been posting photos of the plants she has started, so I'm not going to start any tomato or pepper plants this year. I'm hoping that the Feed 'n Seed has good sweet potato slips this year - I've tried to start a few from store sweet potatoes (the leaves can be cooked like other greens, and they make a nice houseplant) but have had no luck. Most of the sweet potatoes in the stores are pretty dry - feel way too light for their size, and aren't hardly worth eating.
I did manage to get more strawberry and raspberry plants ordered; and did find a source for yellow pole beans - Thank you, Summerthyme! I save seed from my zinnias each year, but succumbed to a few packets of bright purple, green, and orange ones to mix in with my home grown seed while I was at Rural King. I'm going to keep looking for red and white striped petunia seed for my hanging baskets this year - I'm only going to hang 4 as I need the other hooks for hummingbird feeders. I need to find some good grape vines as well - I didn't prune mine for the past couple of years and have decided to just rip out the old ones and start over on the grape arbor/gazebo thing in the side yard.
Darn, I've about worn myself out typing - time to head back to bed for more than a couple hour nap, I guess. The neighbor lady has already texted to see if I'm going to the pool with her in the morning, so I'd better rest up!
You folks all take care; stay safe, and have a great week!