Winco Foods

I made my maiden voyage to Winco Foods late Saturday night. I waited until 9:30 on Saturday night on purpose. I has heard rumor of the lines and seen some of the proof on the evening news. The mailman brought tell of the deals that were available. 12 pack pepsi for 1.98, carpi sun for 97 cents, and a few other things that I figured were probably worth the trip, but I was going to wait until the last possible second to go, which I did. The sale ended Sunday, I made it with a few hours to spare. First things first. The store was large and clean, well stocked and the isles looked nice enough. But it truly has a feel of a Costco or Sam's club, and they have this huge wall of product as you walk in that is reminiscent of the "wall of value" at Macey's that was awful and they finally took down....hint to Winco....follow Macey's lead here! That wall made it nearly impossible to get thru the freaks who apparently had never been to a grocery store before and had to stop and stare. Good grief! When I finally made it thru that stupid entrance, it opened up into a nice and bright store, lead by a fairly large produce department. It looked good, and I would have loved to have considered some of their products, but I had already done a real shopping trip this week and was not in need of produce. The layout of the store was kind of odd, and I really never made it to all of them. I had no desire to fight the people. I did notice a rather large bulk section, that under better circumstances, I would have liked to shop. They had the regular things like flour and oats, but also rice flours, cereal, and even cereal bars that could be purchased individually.But once again, the crazies were out and I was not about to contend with them. I got the items I was after and got out. There was a line to checkout, and so before I got into the line, I hit the magazine rack and picked up a couple of smut mags to keep me occupied. Winco did keep the line moving nicely. I only made it thru one magazine before it was my turn. And I consider that to be remarkable considering the uber dorks in front of me in the actual checkout line. There was one person having their groceries rung up, them and then me. They were a family of 5 and about every 30 seconds they came back with another arm load of &^%$. I bit my tongue until it bleed. Get the hell out of line if you are still shopping!!! Is it that hard......never mind I already know the answer.

So, my 2 cents on WINCO is this.....It was alright. You really have to watch things, because they have weird sizes and prices. I almost bought some fabric softener, it was 2.98...not bad until I realized it was only 26 loads and I usually pay 4.50 for 60 loads. And everything is priced and 2.47 or 98 cents. That can throw you off. My advice it to take a calculator and watch out. I might make a trip if something is on sale, but I won't be going way out of my way to shop there. Oh, and you cannot use a credit card! Cash, Debit and check only! And, you bag your own groceries.....a plus in my book.

Pumpkin Patching 2009

We have a favorite pumpkin patch. Mostly because it has a whole bunch of tractors all lined up the kids can sit on, but also because it is just fun. There is a fun little corn maze, awesome pumpkins and this year, a wagon ride. This year Lex was big enough to choose a pumpkin for herself, which was so funny. Every where she turned all she could she see was pumpkins(a new word for her) and she would jump up and down and yell PUMP!! PUMP!! It was great. Nate, loved the tractors and had to sit on all of them, run thru the corn maze 20 times and pick the perfect pumpkin for himself. This year he has chosen to carve......crap I forget. But I will fill that in when he is awake and can tell me. We all got our pumpkins and had a lot of fun hanging out, and having a little family time. Just the 4 of us, and the whole bunch of everyone else at the patch. wagon ride (the sun was in the west so we are all blinded)

stomping thru the corn maze, trying to find our way.

Go Lexi, Go!

"helping" Daddy push the wheel-barrow

catching a ride with the pumpkins, and "helping" Daddy with the wheel-barrow and the little sister.

Dip

We are now at a stage at our house when our kids love dip! Okay, they love to dip. More the verb tense than the noun. In ketchup. Maybe a little ranch on occassion for Lex, but mostly ketchup. This particular night, not only was the corn dog (it was a lazy dinner night....corn dogs are usually NOT on the menu) dipped, but also the apple slices and maybe worst of all, the green beans. Yack! We must have ketchup at any meal where there might remotely be something worth dipping. Namely meat. They most like to dip meat. And of course french fries.

Not long ago, we went to dinner with friends and we watched the girl spoon feed herself ranch dressing from the cup being held snuggly to her chest. Now, I do recall in the past saying that I did like Winger's ranch enough to drink it, but I never actually intended to ever do that. My daughter however, she apparently will not be holding back on that one.

Now to be fair I was and still am a big fan of the ketchup. I love it for french fries. And it is a must for pork roast (my mom and my brother HATE it when I do that) I also consider it manditory for scrambled eggs. Mostly because I detest eggs, and I have to hide what is on my plate. So I guess like most things that my kids do, they come by it honestly.

Crap, when are they going to get my good things....oh wait these are my good things....bigger crap!

can you help?

I got this off the Ronald Mcdonald House Facebook page.......

This just in from the Ronald McDonald House of Eastern North Carolina: Riley Philpot is a little girl who is struggling with a return of cancer. Make a Wish Foundation was contacted and Riley's wish is to have the mailman dump a bag of get well ...cards at her door when she returns! Please send a get well card to Riley! Here is her name and Address: Riley Philpot 206 Slaney Loop Rd. Winterville, N.C. 28590.

It would be great if you could send this little girl a card. The post has a comment that says that she is 9 yrs old. Way too young to be having cancer again!!!

One of Those Days.

I am having one of those days. The one where every time I speak I bite my tongue. The one where I am very inclined to speak my mind at any and every subject. These are not good days for me. I know myself too well, and know that ultimately I will probably say something I might later regret or more likely wish I had said in a kinder way. Even if it is the truth. I am one of "those" people. I speak my mind, and frankly do not necessarily consider whether what I say will hurt your feelings or not. I am frequently out-spoken. Ask anyone who knows me. I am agrivated by a number of things today, and still by nothing. I do not wish to out any particular thing or person for my feelings. In fact I am attributing at lot of this feeling to a major NYQUIL hangover....wowzer that threw me for a loop last night! But I need to put it out there somewhere, somehow, and so dear blog you get my rant. At least the worst of it for today.