Sunday, March 15, 2020

The Good and the Bad

I'll start with the bad news...the people in our city have lost their minds.  We stayed home today but decided to walk to our nearest grocery store to see how things were going (it's good exercise and it was a nice sunny day).  We were pretty stunned to see that while last week our grocery store was fully stocked and customers were shopping normally, today it looked like a war zone.  Shelves were empty, it looked like every employee they had was working furiously to both stock shelves and check out customers, and there was a fight while we were there!  We live in a nice neighborhood so needless to say this was pretty shocking (on the other side of town in the 'hood nothing surprises me but this was surprising).  As these guys were fighting a bunch of people pulled out their phones to record it (???) and when they called for security a bunch of employees came running (we never have actual security guards at this store like they do in other neighborhoods so their "security" people were the old and small-statured regular employees who seriously don't get paid enough to deal with this.  When I checked out with the few items I bought the cashier said it was the second fight they had had there today.  People have lost their minds! 




We also made the national news again (when Vegas makes the national news, it is seldom for anything good).

On to the good stuff...

We have a few more lemons left on our tree...


The apricot tree, while half dead, is blossoming with future apricots on half of it...


We saw some nice scenery while walking today...


I made pancakes for breakfast...


And I was able to weed part of the yard this morning (I do it in sections, a couple times a year, as my back can only take so much bending over)...



Hopefully this whole pandemic thing passes soon!

6 comments:

  1. Oh wowwww. The fighting is what I am so afraid of seeing. I'm afraid the longer this goes on, we will see even more of that. I absolutely love your lemon tree! I don't know if I could grow citrus where I live, but I'd give anything for a lemon and orange tree. And a pomegranate.

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    1. We can grow all of those in Las Vegas. I'm hoping to get a grapefruit tree next which would be amazing to have a tree full of my favorite breakfast fruit!

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  2. I am not surprised about the fight. But, I don't know your neighborhood. The President is getting in the way!

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    1. It's a pretty messed up situation over all. I hope this passes quickly!

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  3. I really do hope this pandemic passes without too many casualties. I certainly don't want to be one of them. Stay safe.

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    1. You and your hubby need to stay safe too--I was hoping you would totally get away from the kids when your schools closed :/

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