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echo: cooking
to: RUTH HAFFLY
from: RUTH HANSCHKA
date: 2020-06-30 00:12:00
subject: Ants

>  RH> There were three locally this weekend.  I spent a grand total of 50
>  RH> cents. I spent more at the gas station than I did at tag sales and the
> 
> We've not gone to any sales tho I've seen a few advertised. Usually as
> part of our Saturday run around, we'll check out one or two.
> 
Last weekend ... one, and it would have taken half an hour just to get
there.  I went to the estate sale a lot closer. No jewelry to speak of, so I
bought a ruler.  It's a Baccarat crystal ruler of course, but...(LOL)

>  RH> grocery combined.  A local charity thrift reopened today, and other
>  RH> than that it was a giant why-bother.
> 
> ReStore opened up a couple of weeks ago. We went over, just to take a
> look around and came home with a Black and Decker Work Mate. I didn't
> have my reading glasses so browsing the book section was a no go that
> time.
> 
Mine has such a small stack of books I don't even look. 
 
>  RH> the Covid shakeup.  Including zucchini.
> 
> Interesting; I've seen that more people are planting gardens this year
> than in recent history. I also saw lots of zuchinni and yellow squash
> being left in the fields to rot at the beginning of the shut down;
> farmers couldn't get it to market. From what I understand, that has
> since been resolved.

A bunch of college kids, among others, got the supply chains hooked up.  
                                                      

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