I Panicked !!!

Last Wednesday AM, I was on my way to a garage sale, the grocery stores for boxes and the local thrift stores.  I stopped at the Main Stop for my daily cup of gas station coffee. You may or many not know that I play the gas pump slot with my credit card instead of going to a casino to play their slots.   Gas was 3.65.  There was a tanker delivering more gas.  Crude has creeped up to $96 the past few days.  Since I’m probably gonna be drivin quite a  few miles Thursday, I decided to top off the tank. I squeezed an even 3 gallons into my tank. Later that AM, I passed by the Circle K.  They had dropped their gas to 3.61.  That meant I lost  . . .   I panicked, filled my tank and lost 12 cents. Sometimes ya win . . . sometimes ya lose . . .

At the garage sale, I bought what I thought was a nice and sturdy camera tripod for a dollar.  Halfway back to the truck I noticed that the quick release platform was missing.  A replacement is gonna cost around $10 before shipping.  Maybe I'll come across a beat up tripod that has a platform that will fit. it.  It is a Velbon CX 570, Getting a fair amount of money on eBay & Amazon. Later that day, I moved the canvas bag that my present tripod came in.  A quick release platform fell out.  I never knew I had an extra platform.  I thought it might fit, but it was a very sloppy fit.  I'm thinkin of keepin the garage sale tripod and getting the correct platform and eBay my tripod.  At least there weren't many of those disgusting little blue haired ladies driving their big white and silver cars who go out of their way to get in my way out yet.

Picked up 3 boxes at the grocery stores. I’m lookin for specific sizes for specific things to ship in. Found a couple pieces of Corning Ware at the thrift shops.  I’m hopin I didn’t overpay.  They didn't cleanin up as well as I had hoped. 

The potato display is growing at the local grocery.  It started with the big potato a few weeks ago and now there are little potatoes. 

Thursday was busy.  Busy is something I haven't experienced lately.  I went to a garage sale and found a couple of very clean Corning Ware casseroles.  That made up for the questionable ones from yesterday.  If nothing else, I got some decent lids yesterday.  I'm always looking for lids.  Corning Ware sells better with lids.  

A little later I headed out for Angola IN.  There is a little lumber yard over there that sells hardwood.  I bought some hickory, cherry, soft maple, ash and soft maple. Gonna use it for some wood turning projects I'm planning.  

 

This is the traffic circle in Angola.  Not many traffic circles around here.  There is one in Lorain County and a couple in Medina County. I used to live in Lorain County.  This is an interesting photo.  Some of the objects are nearly vertical as they should be and some are not. 

On the way back to Bryan I decided to take a scenic route.  I found this gravel road in Indiana. 

This one lane (I'm being generous saying "one lane) gravel road was in Ohio.  There was a sign saying that it would not be plowed during the snow season.

I saw a sign on this rock, so I backed up to investigate.  It is one nice chunk of granite!  Wonder if it is from this area.  The sign says "Sells School District 4."  Obviously the site of  a school from many years ago.

Every so often I come upon an interesting road name.  Old Rd. is in Ohio.  There is a No Name St. in Millersburg Oh. 

Thursday evening I went to Defiance for NWS weather spotter training.  A full day of runnin around.

 

 

Yesterday I notice that my crocuses are beginning to bloom.

These don't look like the "traditional" type of crocuses.  I planted them, but I don't remember what they are.