Dani and I made a Costco run.

But before I get into that – my abject apologies for managing to paste addresses into the CC: line for some of you and not the BCC: line. Since my email goes out in two batches due to webmail limits – only ½ of my mailing list was affected. All I can say  is — tired and sorry. I don’t think I  made this particular error for years and am not planning on repeating it in the near future.

The purpose in the Costco run was mostly to get a rice cooker. And a bag of rice if I could find one that was under 50#. It seems that India, Japan, Thailand, and China package rice specifically for the US market. Otherwise, why would you find rice in 20, 40, or 50# bags?  And yes, that is the original pound sign and has nothing to do with “hash tag.”

Those particular items in the cart made sense, along with the boxes of microwaveable Quinoa/rice and that of curry lentils,  The kitchen floor mat for Dani also made sense. Dog training bribes made sense. But then there were the other things that crept in.

In the US the particular group is called Girl Scouts. I think the British equivalent is Girl Guides. Social and training group for girls ages 5 and up that featured good behavior, activities and earning badges for various accomplishments (so sue me, I never was one and my girls managed to avoid the whole thing by being raised in Germany). Anyway – the main fundraiser every year was cookie sales. Not home made cookies (biscuits for you Brits, Aussies & Scots) mind you but fancy boxes of them at a significant price. There were about five varieties as I remember, the Thin Mints being the most popular.  I was once told that the Girl Scouts only made about 10% of the selling price.

Anyway –

these little darlin’s are

which combine crunch, sea salt, and dark chocolate.

Obviously a bag (or two) came home with us along with a not so small bag of basmati rice, and a few other treats…..

Cross stitch diversion. Surprisingly productive day having something to do with staggering out of bed at 0500 for an online webinar from the University of Copenhagen (1400 CET) on migrant health. The top three…

about another 200 stitches which puts me at about 30%

the Long dog is at 50%

and Rooky Woods gained a squirrel.