Monday/Tuesday morning

Monday
I wasn't prepared for the bad weather coming in and was anxious about stocking up, particularly on goats milk from Walmart.  It wasn't going to be easy going out today, but it was my only 'window of opportunity' as they say.   It meant grabbing a broom and brushing 6" of snow off my car....

I know I took this on Sunday but it was all still there on Monday morning.   I swept all the snow off, and cleared it a bit behind the car (I should have waited until the afternoon, by then it had melted anyway from some rain) and I set off up the north/south road nearest to me.   The drive was a total nightmare.  The road was so icy I was doing about 10 miles an hour all the way, and even then I felt the wheels slide a couple of times.   I broke a record shopping.  Normally I pile everything into the child's seat in the trolley, but today it spilled over into the trolley itself, that's how much I got.  The bill at the checkout was a record too.

Coming back down the other north/south road was a lot easier, it had cleared quite a bit by then.

Tuesday morning

A severe weather front is moving in.   I took this this morning at 4.58, I've been up with the lark.

 

 

Going round Walmart I couldn't find any gloves and asked an assistant.  She brought me these,

 

of course I wanted to know what those marks were on the fingers.  I was told it was so people could text without taking the gloves off.  Why can't they take them off???????   This is Oklahoma for crying out loud, it's not Antarctica, it's not even Minnesota.

Also going round Walmart I saw this.

It is a wonderful scooter and it totally folds up.  Ever since I've walked with Roy and his grandson on a scooter alongside the Cuckmere it has been my heart's desire to have a scooter.  In Denton I used to fantasise about whizzing along the seafront (I would have put a woolly hat on, and dark glasses) but in this country there isn't anywhere for people to even walk, far less for demented old ladies in woolly hats and dark glasses to ride scooters.

 

I've just seen this on the morning's television.  It is for people who can't remember their passwords.  They swallow it and sensors home in on where their passwords are stored, and unlock them.   I'd liketo know how they get it down.  I can't even swallow a regular Ibuprofen cut in half.   One would think an easier solution would be write down the passwords, but that is very DANGEROUS,    bandits might access them.   Of course they would, if one is stupid enough to leave them lying around where bandits can access them.