I forgot to mention...

[mamajoan]

...that I found my chair. You may recall that it disappeared after I left it marking my parking space the day after the big snowstorm last week. Turns out, it wasn't really gone after all; I just didn't notice it because I never look at the house next to the one I usually park in front of. Both those houses are for sale and currently unoccupied, and it turns out that my chair was in the fenced-in front yard of that second house. I noticed it a couple days ago when I was coming home, but since I was wrangling Isaac and our stuff out of the car, I didn't have a chance to investigate.

So I checked it out today and sure nuff, it's a chair exactly like my chair. I mean, it's a generic folding chair of the sort you see all over, so who can say for SURE whether it's my chair, but the odds are good.

Since that house is unoccupied, its front walk and the sidewalk in front of it haven't been shoveled since the big snow. So I had to slog through a foot or more of snow all the way across the sidewalk and up the front walk of the house. And then I couldn't budge the gate, on account of all the snow, so I had to sort of hitch my belly up onto it and reach over and just barely snag the chair with my fingertips. From the positioning, it looked *exactly* as if someone simply tossed it from the parking space and it sailed over the fence and into the yard, and hadn't been touched since.

So, I have my chair back, and perhaps the people who own that house will be confuzzled when they come along and find footprints in their walk leading over to the gate and back; or, since they obviously haven't come by in a while, perhaps not. I mean, given the snow situation on their walk, it's obvious that they aren't making a huge effort to sell the house; they're not having open houses or otherwise showing it, clearly. So they probably don't give a shit. Whatever.

In other news, Whole Foods is like a minefield when you're hungry and poor. Once again Joan shows complete disregard for the First Law of Shopping. I think I did fairly well though. I did have to get a quart of their corn chowder, because they so rarely have it and I so love it and it's so hard to find vegetarian corn chowder. I believe I shall go have some of it now. *drool*

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[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Last time I was in Boston my friends from Seattle simply had to shop at Whole Foods, which they called "Whole Pay Cheque". I got the impression that it doesn't see the hungry and poor as their core clientele.