It looks like this was the last morning with cold temperatures, sunshine and morning mist for at least a week or so. I’ll miss it but then again both days and nights will stay a bit warmer instead. We’ll also get rain next week, still don’t need more water from the sky, especially not now when the trees drop their leafs and also stop drinking so much water. I guess next year will start with full ground water levels. Still compared to have it has been down on the continent and other parts of the world the little water we’ll get is nothing.
After our morning walk I had to go to the super market, I had a few things I needed and came home with nothing of that except for milk 🙂 🙂 So tomorrow morning I’ll have porridge for breakfast 🙂 🙂 I did however suddenly remember that I need window putty. I guess it’s the same all over the world, birds just love to eat window putty so every now and again I need to buy more to put where it is needed 🙂 I think I bought too little though but now at least I know where to find it. I remember when I was a kid one could find a glaziery in almost every neighborhood, today I think we can be happy if there’s one in any town in the county.
Sometimes I miss those good old days that weren’t that good at all to be honest but back in the days we did have grocery stores everywhere. In my neighborhood there was three just around the apartment building where I lived. We also had a vegetable shop, she only sold vegetables and tiny chocolate bars for us kids. We had a candy shop and at least two tobacco shops as well. One butcher and one fishmonger just down the street but that ended the day the butcher found out that the fish monger had an affair with his wife 🙂 Also a haberdashery shop, I still remember the smell from all the different fabrics she had.
I do actually know about a haberdashery shop in this region but that’s the only one. I don’t think we have fishmongers here any more and butchers? well they do sell meat from the farms around here but it isn’t the same, for one thing it is hard to find them 🙂 🙂 You really don’t want to get lost on the roads here, the risk of never coming home is too big 🙂 🙂 🙂 It is easier and cheaper now days though, buy everything online, even fish and meat, and it’ll come straight to the door. Even vegetables and fruit straight from the orchard man living down in Spain or Greece or where ever will come straight to the door. The only problem with that is that one need to be at home when it arrives and even though I love mango the quantity of what one need to buy must be quite a lot to not spend a fortune on it.
It is time for a last cup of tea for the day. Perhaps I’ll have a banana as well. I bought a banana the other day that had deep red peel. I’ve never done that before and it tasted much like a common banana but more like it was a bit old and very sweet, just like I like my bananas but to that price I rather wait until the common bananas just gets old enough 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I love the pictures of your woods and the paths through them. Here in my part of the prairies, all the trees were planted. Sadly, they are no longer cherished as they used to be. So at the farms and in the cities we have fewer trees.
The drought of the past few years stressed and killed a fair few of them, but the rain this year helped.
Have a good weekend.
John
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Hi inspiredbyo!
I love walking around on those paths, at least when it isn’t tick and moose fly season 🙂 🙂
Too bad they don’t appreciate the trees, especially since they help with cooling down and also to raise the ground water level unless the droughts become way too long.
The same to You 🙂
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Funny story about the butcher and the fish monger. Made me laugh. Which one left town first? Your kitten is so cute! I’m glad the dogs like her
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absolutely love the photo of sara in the dish! many years ago, a friend of mine had a kitten named sara who would sit in her dish when it was empty, so my friend called her sara supper-dish. 😸💖🐾🕊
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Hi mandolin mama!
🙂 🙂 🙂
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Hi Joy!
It was a long time ago but if I remember it right it was the butcher 🙂
She is and the dogs adore her 🙂
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Sara is looking fit! And it’s true, there were a lot more small businesses. The problem with their disappearance is that if you have a problem at the big central shipping points, all goods and services suddenly come to a halt. Some of this needs to be designed better. One mango is often enough!
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Hi carolannie!
She is 🙂
You’re so right but I guess it’s our own fault that it has come to this.
Yes I do like mangoes but one or perhaps two is enough 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Sara looks so cute sitting in her bowl. The meme is true: if I fits, I sits.
Piki Dog doesn’t sit in boxes or bowls but he doesn’t pay a lot of attention to what is underneath his butt when he sits. Frequently, it’s Rocky.
My town has a glazier. It’s rather a large shop, too, as it mainly does shower door installations. It’s possible one might even be able to buy window putty there. In former days the town had a butter and egg store, several neighborhood butchers, 5 grocery stores, lots of little neighborhood “mom and pop” stores, several bakeries, 3 local dairies that delivered daily. The little mom and pop stores are gone except for a couple. No butchers. No local dairies. No milk delivery either. All my meat comes frozen once a month from “local” farms which means New England, New York, New Jersey. These days, that’s as local as it gets in this part of the world.
The weather has been dry with warm days and cool nights. Leaves are falling but they aren’t turning colors first.
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Hi Caryn!
🙂 🙂 🙂
I’ve never thought of how my dogs pay attention to what they sit down on, now I know they really don’t care after saving Sara a couple of times 🙂 🙂 🙂
I do miss all those little shops but I guess they were much more expensive. It sounds as if it’s more local over at Yours than it is here, perhaps I should search n the net to see if we have any local shops of the old kind anywhere around here?
Cold nights and mostly sunny days despite what they have guessed before 🙂 I haven’t checked what they believe now bu if I remember it right we should have rain tomorrow.
Just checked and it will start to rain tomorrow night and continue with quite a lot of rain the coming week, that’s when the moose hunt starts 🙂 🙂 🙂
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