Tag: just life

I had a friend who once told me that she never learned how to shop. What she meant was she didn’t know how to “bargain shop”. She said she went to one grocery store and just bought what they had. This was kind of amazing to me. It never occurred to me that people didn’t watch the sales and shop accordingly.I was quite pleased when I moved here to find that there were 4 large grocery stores in town to choose from (we only have 3 now) and they are all no more than a mile from each other. It didn’t take long to establish ‘what to buy where’. This has changed some over the years but I still know what is mostly on …

Today was all about deer meat here but since I mentioned the violin on facebook, I will save the deer meat post for tomorrow. I should have some finished jerky to photograph but then anyway. When I was a child in 4th grade, for one year, I took violin lessons in school. Our school had their own violins and trumpets so my brother and I were able to play without having to buy an instrument (he played trumpet). I can’t say that I was all that good at it. I never did understand how to read notes. Our teacher must have explained it to us but all I remember is…