So Hot

The best place to be is inside today but that's not what happened.  Tomorrow evening I'm cooking for Wed. supper at church and it's Hot Dog Your Way night. (Wish I'd put it in the bulletin like that--Coney, cheesy, chili or corn is how it appeared.) So today I shopped.  I started at Aldi, never shopped there before but I hear you get good bargains.  I had my cart loaded, swiped my card and found out that they don't take credit--just debit or cash.  Good time to find out, right?  No need being mad but I was mad at myself for assuming.  "Who doesn't take credit these days?" one would ask.  I just parked my cart, said I'll be right back, went home (about 5 min. away), got cash (just happened to have some), went back and they had already begun putting my cold stuff away.  I wasn't gone 10 min. but they felt they had to replace it in the coolers and they were probably right but I still was delayed trying to sort out what they had put away, someone else's stuff that was put in my cart and what I had already paid for that I had left there as well.  Fortunately, the girl who checked me out remembered me and we worked it out.  Fun in the sun and on to the church.  I called on the way for Bill to help me and got his answering machine.  So...I unloaded the trunk myself after having looked for a cart to load, one sack, two, sacks, three sacks, one watermelon--"Oh, do you need help?" said the kid on the couch (three of the five left after seeing me enter with the first sack).  "Sure, grab a watermelon out of the trunk."  So I did get help with two watermelons.  Better than nothing.

Not all--Went to Amy's before shopping to take a dress and other stuff I had made.  I had called this morning to be sure she would be there and that I would get there before 12:00.  I got there about 10 til 12:00 and she had gone to take her son somewhere.  There was no note on the door--just a closed sign.  I thought maybe something disasterous had happened, but no, just had to take him somewhere.  So...after having to go to GFS because they didn't have everything I needed at Aldi's and taking the frozen stuff back home to freeze--then I went to Amy's.  I'm glad she's only 5 min. away, too.  She liked the dress but was not too keen on one of the two baby flower headbands--made especially in a different, more Smore Couture, way so to not be the same as the ones at Relics.  She also said I owed her another flower clip in trade for some trim (that she got free!)  We're a bit mercenary, aren't we?  I am too, at times but today it kind of got to me.  I'd already been around town in the middle of the day in this heat.  Yep, I'm glad to be home for the evening.  Bill's mowing!!! yes, in the heat.  I sometimes wonder if he just does this to challenge himself--just to see if he can do it without dropping over.  He's many times been to the "dropping over" stage by pushing himself too much.  On top of that, the grass is drying out, not growing well,  it's JULY!  Oh, well, I've long since stopped griping...to him but in my little brain the gripe goes on.  It doesn't do any good, though.  I just gave him some ice water and wished him well.  I'll have a piece of lemon meringe (sp) pie waiting when he's done--maybe even before supper.  Speaking of...I need to be thinking about that.  Leftovers sound good to me. Yep.