I went to the store to buy a dozen eggs....

Toto'sDad

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A human-interest story cries out to be told in this thread.

My wife's friend dating all the way back to high school, keeps chickens. She had a particularly fine specimen who would come to the back door, and cluck away until she was let into the washroom. She would go over, settle under a straight-backed chair, and lay her egg for the day. Then my wife's friend would take the little hen back out to the chicken coop, and all was well with the world.

Then this past summer, for some reason the little hen got out of her pen, didn't try or didn't get to get into the house, and succumbed to the blazing heat we suffered all summer long! Alas, a cute little fluke of nature is no longer with us, the likes of which are unlikely to be repeated.
 

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I seldom buy 'real' General Mills Cheerios, but I do like them.

We more often buy Walmart house brand little oat circle thingies, but we can taste the difference from the real thing. Trixie rather colorfully refers to the non-Cheerio Cheerios as 'Dirt Oh's'.


Cheerios are poison. Pure sugar.
 

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You know, I started eating Cheerios because the particular ones I buy have 100% of the minimum daily requirement for iron. I was going to buy some honey roasted and flavored Cheerios, but got to looking on the box, and they only had less than 25% of the iron the regular one's did. So, I just eat the one's I've been eating and throw a few raisins in for taste!
You’re a tough old goat, why don’t you get yourself the Honey Nut Cheerios and just chuck a couple of nails in for the iron?
 

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I left the store with everything I came for...except those eggs, because I'll be damned if I'll pay SEVEN DOLLARS AND SIXTY CENTS for a dozen 'cheap' eggs.

I thought this was going to be a story about you coming home from the trip to the store with a new scooter, moped or motorcycle.

Congratulations on your restraint. 🙂
 

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I thought this was going to be a story about you coming home from the trip to the store with a new scooter, moped or motorcycle.

Congratulations on your restraint. 🙂

I did bring a new one home about a week ago.

I need to pace myself a bit with this sort of thing, perhaps restricting my motorcycle acquisitions to one per month for a while, though both Trixie and myself are particularly vulnerable this time of year to impulsive 'cabin Fever' vehicle purchases.
 

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I did bring a new one home about a week ago.

I need to pace myself a bit with this sort of thing, perhaps restricting my motorcycle acquisitions to one per month for a while, though both Trixie and myself are particularly vulnerable this time of year to impulsive 'cabin Fever' vehicle purchases.
It was kind of selfish of you to talk about yourself, only barely mentioning Trixie. I'm sure she's out running fifty miles or so in the new fallen snow! :)
 

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...and a bag of frozen hash browns....and a couple bags of unsalted, unshelled, peanuts for the local gang of crows.

There was only one type of eggs in the store, everything else apparently sold out, but the eggs that were left were the 'cheap' ones, none of this namby-pamby 'cage free' or 'free range' eggs (which are what I always buy if I can), no, these were the 'jammed-in-a-cage-in-a-gigantic-poultry-confinement-building' eggs, not 'Happy Eggs'.

I left the store with everything I came for...except those eggs, because I'll be damned if I'll pay SEVEN DOLLARS AND SIXTY CENTS for a dozen 'cheap' eggs.

OK....I'm done now.

Just looked it up at my local Raleys and a dozen eggs are $5 to $10 now. What the heck?
Not so around these parts. There must be a Chicken Ranch around here somewhere! Sure smells like it!😣😁

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