Out The Door Before The Sun Crested The Horizon

First stop... got there before the doors unlocked at 6AM

It was time for my bi-weekly grocery stock-up trip and I have been seeing so many #marketfriday posts lately on steemit, I was ready to join the ranks of those members sharing their shopping excursions and experiences.

This tag was started by

Hive account@dswigle and I am thrilled to have my first post today.

Last night we had rain, changing to sleet then finally snow flurries. Nothing in the amount of an accumulation, but still... winter has arrived. The winds were whipping and howling all night long. Nothing stuck to the ground; only on the cars and deck.

Groceries & Other Things

After picking up a few things from the produce department, I headed to the cheese counter. I usually look for cheeses that are the ends or mis-shaped at a reduced cost. But nothing yet today. Must be too early for the cheese people to have it out.

But I did pick up a wedge of Aged Asiago for a snack later tonight.
One of these days I am going to learn to make more than just ricotta cheese. I saw the other day someone had made 15 balls of mozzarella cheese and I was so envious! One day, oh yes, I will take the cheese making plunge into the mozzarella dream.

Since I had the store to myself and the employees were busy either waking up, drinking coffee or stocking shelves, I moseyed over to the kitchenwares' section. I rarely buy things here, but it is nice to just look and see what they have.

Today I saw a GREAT price on this glass storage container. I was tempted, but eventually passed after talking myself out of it. They would have been perfect for my flour and sugar on the counter.

Shopping done! Onto the next stop

Family, Farm & Home

I have never been to this store before and have been curious about checking it out. Today seemed to be as good as a day as any. So let's go inside!

The main reason I wanted to visit this store was because I have been in search of fish emulsion for my indoor winter garden and most stores here have already put that part of their gardening section stock away for the year. I have little desire to make my own, although I have researched the recipe, but am shying away from doing it if possible.

But I did find some things that I wanted to share.

Seedling peat pods that I have always bought in bulk or boxes of a few dozen. I never knew you could just buy one or two. but in reality.. what's the point of that? One or two? Laughable to me!

Maybe one day I will invest in a smoker. This one was kind of nice. Decently priced for $100

Oh now here is a business I missed out on when my son was raising chicken broilers years ago! I could have been the chicken *$#! queen of the county!

Final Stop

Time for some paper products at the Walgreens. But I stopped to look at the Halloween items still on mark down.

WOULD YOU look at THAT PRICE??? $20 regular price for a coffee mug? Even at $10 on sale I would never buy a coffee or travel mug for that price. This is RIDICULOUS in my mind. I can't wrap my head around it or conceive this!