Subj : Groceries To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Sun Jun 12 2022 17:27:34 Hi Dave, DD> it. As my chief entertainment is reading ... and I don't care for DD> audio books it's a matter of some concern. RH> Understandable why it's on your mind then. I've never tried audio books RH> but don't think I'd be as satisfied as with a real book. DD> I certainly am not. And for ones like us, the publishing industry hasn't died yet. DD> I tried Amazon's free trial for audio books and found them to be DD> lacking (for me) on several fronts. If I am driving it's hard to pay DD> attention DD> to the material/storyline. If I am at home and playing the audio book DD> in the background - both the audio book and my other activity suffer. RH> I can see both sides of it, makes me think that audio books aren't the RH> way to go. We just wrapped up a 6,000+ mile trip, listened to a lot of RH> Patriot talk radio, some Nashville country and some old time classic RH> radio. DD> I give "Talk" radio a miss. To me it's just a bunch of yammerhead DD> wing- nuts (right-wing or left-wing) evangelising for the "truth" as DD> they see it - and, for the most part, totally clewless. If I'm going Depends on who you listen to but I won't go any further here as this isn't the forum for it. DD> to listen DD> to talk on my radio I'd rather it be a South Missouri Baptist preacher DD> rasslin' with sin and Satan. That, at least is entertaining. I used to DD> get a powerful AM station from either Springfield or Joplin, Missouri DD> which carried just such every Sunday morning. Bv)= We used to catch J. Vernon McGee from time to time; I think he was out of OK. He was one of those old school h...fire and brimstone preachers. DD> OTOH - the earliest form of audio story telling - Old Time Radio - is DD> stiil used by me .... and enjoyed. Episodes of Drangnet, Green Hornet, DD> Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Sherlock Holmes are all listened to and DD> enjoyed by yours truly, Dave Drum. Bv)= RH> We listened to a number of old shows on this current trip, a good one RH> yesterday was Bob Hope with guests Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. DD> Also Fred Allem and Jack Benny. Or Fibber McGee and Molly or Lum & DD> Abner. We've not caught the last one but have heard the others. On the way west, one day we caught a 5 part broadcast. It had originally been broadcast over 5 weeks but they did it back to back for about 2 1/2 hours of an interesting "whodunit". DD> Now the only stores not doing some form of that are WallyWorld and the DD> no-frills places like Sav-A-Lot and ALDI. RH> We have an Aldi in town but usually, if we need something (mostly non RH> grocery), we go to Lidl as it's close by, just up the hill a bit from RH> Wegman's. Steve was thinking of replacing our camper induction cook RH> plate (from Aldi) but we don't get their flier, do get Lidl. Told him RH> to start looking at the weekly on line flier from Aldi. DD> Lidl and ALDI have common ancestry. We only have ALDI here. RH> We did for a while, Lidl opened up about 5 years ago. DD> Hy-Vee is a sorta-kinda Midwestern Wegmans. RH> Sounds well worth exploring. DD> My house mate shops WallyWorld and Ruler Foods (Krogers no-frills DD> deal) and thinks he's saving money "big-time". HAH! By watching the DD> sales and adverts I do as well or better at the high-end, full service DD> places. RH> Same as we trust Wegman's house brands over a lot of the lower end RH> stores around us. DD> I used to subscribe to Wegman's e-flyer and compare prices/selection DD> to my local stores' weekly adverts. RH> And your findings were.................? DD> No spectacular differences in pricintg - and a whole bunch of good DD> recipes. We do most of our local shopping there. Found an almost as good counterpart in UT, not too far from our daughter's house--Harmon's. As we stayed in a lot of W-M parking lots this trip, we bought a lot of bread and (national brand) lunch meat in the store. It's our way of thanking them for letting us stay there. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Gone crazy, be back later. leave a message at the Beep! --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .