7/18/2021

 

Weekly Update 7/18/2021

Quite a while ago, I received a rather substantial gift card to be used at Home Goods as a house warming present when I moved to Pooler. I was never able to find anything I wanted, and I truly do not want MORE STUFF, but I felt I should find something since these ladies had kindly wanted to show me their friendship. As I was dusting my black plastic tv stand this week, I was once again reminded how much I hate that thing, and especially the way it shows the dust only moments after I’ve run my rag over it. I had looked in Home Goods before, but never saw anything that caught my eye. That changed this week, when I casually went in “just to look”. I found a sofa table that is made of wood and is painted gray, was just slightly narrower but also slightly taller that what I had. And, it fit in my car. I bought it and set it up Monday, and I like it so far. Now I need to figure out a way to cart the old one to the Goodwill.

DH was very strange this week. The tourists are still everywhere in Savannah, and for my first tour, I had 12 visitors. There were so many people that the director had to give a tour in order to keep the guests in each group to a reasonable number. For the next tour I only had four, and the one following that was only two. And at 4 pm, there was no one! I got to leave a little early. Wednesday is when one of my group of friends meet for drinks, and I’ve been unable to join them because of the conflict with doing tours at DH. This week, I did meet with them. That was a nice bonus to getting out early.

As I was walking from the free parking on Jones Street to Green Square on Thursday, I passed an advertisement for Coca Cola that was painted on the brick wall of a building. The wall is facing an alley (you can see the line of garbage cans lined up in the alley). I took a photo and then did a little googling to see when this slogan, “relieves fatigue”, was used. It was a part of the ad campaign in 1908-1910. So, I guess this painted wall has been in this alley for a long time.

I was back in the pool this week – FINALLY. I tried to go Thursday, but they were working on cleaning it. I stayed for quite a while, but it was too hot to sit next to the nice cool wand not be able to get in, so I left. I went again on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It’s been so long since I’ve been swimming, it was difficult for me. My muscles don’t remember. It came back quickly, and I enjoyed being there.

Before I went to the pool on Friday, I first went to pick blueberries. I went to the same farm that I’d been to before for strawberries and blackberries. The blueberry “orchard” is father away from the store where they give you the bucket and you pay for what you pick. So I had to drive my car past huge fields of sunflowers and sweet corn. It felt as if I was in the country! There’s a butcher shop near the farm, so I stopped to see if I could find something like really good hot dogs that I used to be able to get in Rochester. In Savannah, all they have is what I call frankfurters, and they’re not the same at all. I want a good, fat, pop-open white hot from Zweigles. I didn’t find any at the meat place, but I did get a bratwurst and some tenderloin steaks. They were expensive, but I love a really good steak. That evening for dinner I had steak, baked potato, corn on the cob and blueberry shortcake for dessert.

Adrian continues to delight his great grandma! I get frequent updates to the photo album that Jack and Sarah have created and shared. I’m very grateful for them including me. Adrian is darling!