I was up early and left the moominbeach at 7:13. Dumped off a load of load of recycle, did the laundry, and got a few grocks at Pat’s.

When I was a kid, Pat’s was the A&P. It was probably the grocery store we went to most frequently although we also went to the Red Owl and less frequently the Piggly Wiggly. The A&P was only a few blocks away from my Grandma’s house on John Street but I’m pretty sure she also shopped at the Red Owl and the Piggly Wiggly sometimes. Those stores were all well within the inner perimeter of the small city of Sault Ste. Siberia.

Nowadays the major grocery stores in town are Meijer and Walmart and they are on the outer perimeter of the city, 3-Mile Road. I don’t shop at Walmart (it makes me “dizzy”) but I am a regular Meijer shopper both here and on the Planet Ann Arbor. I didn’t feel like dealing with Meijer today for the few items on my list so I hit up Pat’s instead. It’s much smaller and an easy in-and-out. They always play music from my childhood there. Today it was the Raspberry’s “Please Baby Go All the Way” (I knooww) and I fergit what else.

I did end up at Meijer, sort of. I realized that Cygnus was a bit under a half tank so I gassed up at Meijer. I wasn’t really worried about running out of gas but with the Bay Mart gas station in Brimley being rebuilt I thought I would just get ahead of things.

Back out to the moomincabin to put the laundry and the grocks away and hose out the scummy recycle bin and clean the toilet and wash the lettuce I bought at the farmers market a couple days ago. And… I was about to take my pea shelling operation down to the beach when it started RAINING. Okay. I will never complain about rain and shelling peas on the deck during the rain was loverly.

The GG arrived as scheduled at around six and we ate filet and asparagus and little potatoes and salad and then went over to the Old Cabin to visit those next door cousins for a bit.

The pic is inside the Old Cabin. I spent the first six summers of my life there and many many many more times, us cousins running back and forth constantly from the moomincabin to the Old Cabin. We had so much fun.

G’night, KW

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