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With daylight arriving sooner, I’m up and out before breakfast again and on days like yesterday, it’s a joy.
The clouds morph so quickly and this was a day of contrails which always catch my eye.
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Over breakfast I dawdled with word puzzles, keeping an eye on the window as the sky continued to change.
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Frustrated by the lack of gluten-free options, I’d decided to give the regular type another try.
Perhaps I was wrong in assuming gluten was a problem? After all I’d been tested years ago for celiac disease and been found negative.
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The answer was clear before I’d completed my meal. I’ve been nibbling ginger ever since.
So, we decided to make that trip back to Bennington where we’d had luck recently.
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If I’d checked the website first, I would have learned that the item in question is no longer being produced and saved myself the frustration, but never mind.
Any excuse for a drive!
After giving up bread some time back, my breakfast choice was gluten-free oatmeal which I went off after having my tonsils out, though I can’t specifically remember why.
That surgery put me off everything else I was eating at the time and I’d found that waffles suited me.
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Gluten-free flour is available and you can make your own waffles which is what Grant proposes to do.
Way more effort than my breakfast warrants!
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Anyway, off we went.
Each time we’re in a supermarket we feel we should stock up since prices are climbing constantly.
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My first job, when I was 17, was in the local HUB market in Syosset.
Curiously, bar codes existed back then, long before scanners. You were expected to remember prices which had to be entered manually.
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If a customer bought multiples of a single item, I believe I’m correct in saying that you could calculate mentally and enter the total in order to save time.
There’s a concept.
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The point is, many of those prices stuck, so I have a fairly good idea just how much they have increased over the years.
At that time I thought it extravagant to spend a dollar for a pot of jam, which runs from $3 to over $9 now.
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You can get grape jelly for $2.
Clearly, I must develop cheaper tastes.
But first, I must find something to put the jelly on.
Yesterday’s price for a dozen eggs in New York: $8.19
We’re told it’s because of bird flu which certainly does seem to be killing wild birds as well as chickens.
Unlikely to be cured anytime soon by the efforts of our current Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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The morning’s bright start clouded over considerably, offering moody images.
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More effective it you get the whole tree.
They should be sprouting soon.
(I no longer count on anything!)
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Bennington was decidedly grey…
…and rain spattered the windshield.
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Coincidentally, our last couple of visits to Bennington have found it beneath equally gloomy skies.
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Escaping, we headed back to New York where the sun was out again.
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Snow is receding.
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But a good bit still hangs on.
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Not least in our front garden!
Thank you, Carolyn, for the interesting update on your days!
Joanna
You still have snow in your area. In Finland the weather has been warmer than it used to be and currently we don´t have snow. I noticed that you wrote about the eggs which are very expensive. I think it is of the bird flu and killing millions of chickens. There is a lack of eggs. By the way, have you tried to bake your own bread?
The price you quote of $8.19 for 12 eggs seems like extortion to me. We also have bird flu outbreaks in England, and tens of thousands of birds have been destroyed ‘just in case’. However, a dozen free range large eggs still cost just £3, which is less than $4. Medium and small eggs are considerably cheaper than that too. Someone is ripping off the American public, and I also read that the US is importing eggs from Turkey!
Best wishes, Pete.
From what is reported, in some places they are even more expensive and the price of eggs is one of the things T ran his campaign on. He would reduce prices “on day one” but we all knew he would make things worse. Pete you cannot imagine the rage I feel and the impotence. No, that’s not right, I think you can. You’re going to Turkey – maybe you can set up and egg shipping business.
I spent many years working behind a bar when the price of all ’rounds’ no matter how large, was added up in the head. Thankfully, with large rounds, people seldom ask for exactly the same thing twice or they would have noticed the price fluctuating. Particularly if I was imbibing myself!