Field Notes- Monday, February 6th. Life Goes On. Grocery had only two lines open for checking out.

 I tend to think of the entire Month as Valentine's Day. Not that I am anyone's Valentine.

The grocery.  I am becoming concerned.  Only two regular lines open and one for 14 items or less. So the wait line was long and then one of the two regular lines got closed down.  This chain has another MUCH larger Brand New Store less than a mile away.  The one in Town has lots of walking traffic. Short drive traffic.  The other has few cars in the lot the times we drive past (unless it's August and the Florida people are shopping).  There is another large chain grocery just across from this large one.  Lower prices. 

I think Hannaford made a calculation that the Town Folk would drive that extra mile to shop in an enormous new store.  They didn't. Human nature and habit sometimes isn't considered in the math businesses do....

Library.  I dropped off a heavy bag of finished, needed to be returned books.....Brought home three. I forgot one...It's sitting here on my desk. 

I also THOUGHT I had forgotten my shopping list.  But it was in my purse.   I found it AFTER I had shopped and crossed things off before putting groceries away.  I forgot two things- that I wanted......I got everything else. Yeah, ME!!!  It was mostly things to make my vegetable soups.  I got two containers of Panera Baked Potato Soup.  And I have lots of the vegetable bean soup.