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Pineapple express around here lately. I could wish for less rain but I won't. We need every drop.

Hello, Tina...very nice to see you. I hope you and yours had a nice Christmas.

Sweet Dreams to everyone.

Enjoy the rain while it lasts Tina.

I need to go for groceries today...I keep putting it off.

Good Morning please pick up some fruit for me, Sunny. Whatever looks good will work.

Tangela is shopping for us today. Last time this year.

She is a wonderful daughter, Tina. You are one lucky Momma.

PS.. you have a PM

It all looks good but the $$$ are crazy....I only got a few apples and some bananas. They'd rather the fruit decay in the store than sell it at prices one can afford.

Covid is spreading faster than ever before here....it's just a matter of when we catch it not 'if'. I am back to double masking and wiping down groceries. DH is 'rapid' tested every morning with his work crew before they are allowed into the main work building. I am glad of that.

Sorry for the cost of fruit..and other things I bet. Here as an example many foods have doubled in price.

So glad that your DH is tested often. That must make you both rest easier.

I know you said your fruit prices were high before, Sunny. But how are your fresh veggies? staple items like potatoes, onions, carrots ,etc?
Sweet dreams all

Everything fresh is expensive Tina.

It is $8 for a 10 pound bag of potatoes, turnip and carrots are $2 a pound. apples are $4 a pound, bananas are the cheapest at $1.29 a pound....and that is the affordable things. It is $8 a pound for fresh berries, oranges are $1 a piece, a small lettuce is $5. We now pay $8 for a gallon of milk and fresh eggs are $5 a dozen. Chickens and pork are $4 a pound(on sale), turkeys are $6, ground beef is $4-5 a pound....I shop so strictly that it is sad to think about.

I budget everything right down to the dollar, it is a good thing that I cook all our meals....I don't know how people can afford take out and frozen meals.

My.prices are high, but thankfully not that high....yet. Gas has been down to $2.99 for awhile, but is predicted to go up to $4.00 a gallon by Memorial day.in May. Then of course all else will go up as well. I think we are going to start having 2 meatless meals a week instead of one..but then there will still be eggs & cheese to buy. ( I make salads with them in it)

My DH was.just saying that about people eating out here just yesterday. And I want to know where they eat. There is 3 places in Scott city, ( 2 are fast food and the actual restaurant closes at 3 in the afternoon) none here in Kelso, one small coffee shop in a town 7 miles away and few Fast Food in the larger town to the North. We have/had a lot more mom & pop restaurants back home in IL. But I too cook at home.

Gas is $6 a gallon here already.

They just announced school is closed until January 21st at the least....and probably longer due to the high omicron cases. Online school starts next week once again.

Sorry for the cost of gas...but at least Carey is still working. This being retired and on Medicare is for the 🐦.
They raised our Medicare checks by 5% for next year. And yet inflation is well past that amount. But I guess some money is better than no money.

I remember when we went out to McDonalds when I was little. About once a year. The burgers were ten cents each. I got a choice of fries or a shake. We couldn't afford both. I guess fast food has rea;;y jumped in price around here too. I haven't been for a couple of years. I have ordered a couple from Uber eats but $50 is too much to spend on a meal for three. It seems to lose flavor the more expensive it is.
We no longer eat much meat here. Every couple of weeks I'll have T pick up a little something. And then it's the making of several meals.

Tina, take-out is a treat here as well...the kids still get a 'Happy Meal' from McD's when I do the monthly bank trip.

I could do without eating meat but not DH.

If it were just me, I would make soups for most meals..they would have meat in them, but a smaller amount of meat is needed for soup. But Like in Sunny's house My DH wants his meat..the good thing is He does not eat as much since he retired. I still buy meat by what a meal would cost me. And we eat leftovers.i

I haven't put gas in my car since 2019. I did buy two 5 gal. containers last month when a neighbor was going out. But they are still here. T need to get them into my tank. 2020 was an odd year followed by 2021 anther odd year. I was looking forward to the new year until I realized it was called 2020 too.
Happy New Year my friends!

I finally found the Coffee House! I don't know what has been happening in everyone's world. I can finally get on the computer now. I'm going to try to read back right now. So happy to see you all!

Good grief!!! I can't even imagine that. But, it may be a reality here in the US soon.

Hi Cindy, we are so glad to have you back.

Happy New Year!

It's great to see you, Cindy. I am so glad you are here.

Yes, Cindy, it is great to see you ! I hope our prices do not get that bad. But I guess itnis likely to happen.

Happy New Year !
Don't be a stranger, you were missed

Sleep well my friends..I am headed to bed myself.

Good morning, it is snowing again but only a few inches they say.....it does make for a dreary start to the day though.

Yea, good morning from me as well. I have no idea what today holds..it is just getting light here..I do hope the rain is gone...you should see the muddy paw prints on my Sunporch..Junie is not cleaning them up...not anytime soon anyway...

No matter the weather, there will be foot prints of some kind through our houses. DH just left snowy ones all through the entrance when he came home for his lunch break.

The few inches of snow is turning into many, many inches....it is a mess out there. It is a good day to stay inside and do some baking.

well Rod and I were pretty careful about cleaning our shoes before Rhonda...I am not cleaning up after her, but it s a mess.

I tried to get on here last night but couldn't...thought I might have blown the forum up again. Just got out of the hospital awhile ago. People are dying of Covid right in the ER. It's a sad place. I made them discharge me, I couldn't handle it there. I don't have Covid. I have pneumonia and severe dehydration. There are others sicker than me who need my bed. There are no beds empty at the hospital.
Sad, sad, sad.

I understand your worry. I don't think I would be able to make myself stay in a hospital either. So glad that you do not have Covid, Cindy.
Also glad to see you here.

Happy New Year to us all!!

Our temps have been so warm that everything is budding again but it has been raining almost nonstop for days and there's a 90% chance of rain tomorrow.

Sorry for the forecast rain. We are to have some snow on Thursfay... I do not care to drive in that....oh well.

I hope you are better soon Cindy. The hospitals everywhere are in such turmoil...it is scary.

I am going to open a new coffeehouse.

Sunny opened a new CoffeeHouse, see you all there...

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