Grocery Shopping and 5 More Things

Our weekly shopping trip to the local grocery store (Albertsons) cost a total of $36.78.  Nearly all of the items were on sale and while we don't usually eat canned soup and boxed cereal, for 97 cents each (soup) and $1.47 each (cereal), these are a good standby if we are sick or don't feel like cooking.  Things we don't use after a year get packed up and sent to the Philippines.  Note the picture is missing four bananas which I forgot to put in the picture.

Five more things...

1. The government is giving out more free covid tests at the link here.
2. The cats still haven't shown up and it has been more than a week.  I hope something good happened to them (someone turned them into house cats) and not something bad (coyotes).
3. We will probably do some extra shopping at Costco and Sam's Club this weekend as a looming port shutdown could have a drastic effect on what we will be able to buy at the stores in the coming months.
4. We are fortunate that our friends and family in Florida and Georgia are fine but it was pretty scary watching Hurricane Helene from the viewpoint of the stormchasers. Yikes
5. Tomorrow (Saturday) is National Public Lands Day (and free entry day to the National Parks).