Dear Folks, I promised myself that I wouldn't bore you with the mundane things I did today but I guess I lied to myself. So read and yawn. I had watched the clock carefully this afternoon and when little hand was on 2 and the big hand was on the 12, I knew I had to get into my car and drive myself to the Niagara Falls VA clinic for my monthly shot and a blood pressure reading. Note, I can't remember when my blood pressure had been as low as it was today. I went on my merry way afterward under the gray sky with a threat of rain and did some exciting grocery shopping on the way home. I shuffled my way into the store, grabbed the nearest motorized shopping cart and started shopping in the produce section. I gasped at the price of the head of lettuce I needed ($1.69) but when you need lettuce, you need lettuce. From there I headed for the fresh corn which was on sale for 6/$2.00. Granted it's certainly not locally grown but at that price at this time of year I don't care if it's imported from Argentina. While I was inspecting each ear of corn and husking each one of them, an older gentleman wheeled his cart up and started to do his own husking. Well, you know me, I couldn't just stand there and not say something to him. We were both having difficulty stripping the husks off to throw them into the handy dandy trash bin right there and I let him know that I felt it was a sad thing that it was so difficult for me to do such a simple thing at my young age. He agreed with me. He said that his fingers ached and I told him my fingers didn't have much strength left in them. He agreed. Before we parted from our corn rendezvous, the gentleman husked a very choice ear of corn and handed it over to me. From there I wheeled myself into the reduced produce section hoping I'd find some cheap day-old tomatoes or cucumbers for my salads and as I was wheeling myself out of the section I passed the doughnut section. It was there that I met one happy man, maybe 10 years younger than I. It was obvious he wanted to draw someone into conversation and when he mentioned out loud to himself that he knew doughnuts were loaded with cholesterol, I reassured him that cholesterol was good for his health. He went on happy with his shopping feeling reassured. Although I didn't buy that much at the store today, I still had a problem dragging it into my house. I picked up the lightest bag and just left my trunk wide open in the driveway hoping that my next door neighbor would notice it and drag the rest of it into the house. I had no more than settled myself back down in my easy chair with my book when I heard the loud humming of lawn mowers right outside my window. Oh my goodness, my lawn was being mowed for the first time this year! I went to my door and greeted them/him ((I knew "him"), they continued with their mowing and in a few minutes later I heard a knock on my door. The owner of the lawn mower service knocked and just walked inside carrying all of my groceries. He yoo-hooed to me and I could have just hugged him for being so considerate! So that's all I have to report about my exciting day. But do you know what? With just those moments, I'm quite content with the pleasure I've received from almost total strangers today. Tomorrow's another day and who knows what will happen tomorrow? vee