1. I was entering my receipts yesterday and came across this fellow.
Last weekend I went to Whidbey Island (the next island over) for a birthday party. I stopped at the Greenbank store, which is a tiny general store with bare wood floors, and the Greenbank post office is in the back. I love the Greenbank store. I make it a point to stop there whenever I’m on the island.
The Greenbank store is so small that it doesn’t have a card terminal. If you want to pay with debit or credit, the cashier has to pull out the big old card imprinter from behind the counter. Chunk-a-chunk!
I bet a lot of people (kids these days! Off my lawn!) have never seen one of these. They were everywhere, back in the day, as ubiquitous as PIN swipe pads. And they still live on, in some of the more rural parts of the country.
2. The egg on the right is a double yolker (I can totally tell without cracking it).
Harriet lays double-yolked eggs almost exclusively. Too bad all the eggs are still at half size! I got a run of shell-less eggs last week, but those seem to have ended. Now I’m getting two half-size eggs a day. Even Harriet’s double yolkers are still only the size of a regular egg.
I could use a dozen eggs from the store, but I just can’t admit defeat and BUY eggs at this point.
something to look forward to…
http://entertainment.stv.tv/showbiz/120553-egg-cellent-discovery/
Earlier this summer I visited a bookstore–one of those incredible places with no real walls, but books piled everywhere, floor to ceiling, everywhere you went. I finally picked out a book, and asked if they took plastic. Turns out they did, but it required a phone-call (for immediate confirmation that my card was valid)–and then he whipped out the chunk-a-chunk imprint thingy. I was very impressed! I had the same reaction you did– WHOA! Took me back, that contraption did…
What is “shell-less egg?!” How could such a thing exist?
Shell-less eggs = chickens need more oyster shells (easier than trying to force calcium pills down their little throats)
Hi Erika,
I just posted this and you were one of the inspirations for it. Let me know if it helps.
http://www.cherylbrunette.com/2009/09/roasted-veggies-once-a-day/
p.s. I don’t have my firewood in yet either. Two guys crapped out on me. I’m hoping this third one will deliver . . . literally.
They’re like teen-agers learning to drive, right now. With a little more age and experience, they’ll do just fine.
the only time i ever saw shell-less eggs was when i was 11, and ihad tohelp my grandma butcher chickens.
beyond that, if you don’t eat both eggs every day, you’re well on your way to a souffle!
(and they probably won’t lay as much this winter, either)
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