Evelyn Dewars

Depending upon how you define your summer, I think today is about the half way mark of this year’s summer. The kids around here go back to school on August 12. They don’t have much time left of their school vacation.

My vacuum quit working halfway through my housework. Its not the belt and I can’t find a clog, but it just doesn’t pick up anything any more. I’m so disgusted with these cheap vacuums! It seems like none of them last more than a year. So I have to go up to K-Mart and buy another new vacuum today so I can finish cleaning my house.

Last year I planted tomatoes and they all had a fungus problem and died. All of the plants purchased from Lowes, Home Depot and K-Mart were sent from the nursery with the fungus infection in the soil and they all died.

I am not going to use the same pots and soil for this year’s plants, as the fungus has probably contaminated everything. So if I buy tomato plants this year, I want a guarantee from the store that they are healthy and I’m going to keep the receipt in case I have any problems again this year. I spent at least fifty dollars on my gardening supplies last year and got nothing in return. I’m not going to waste my time and money again without some satisfaction from the store that caused the problems.

Although I almost never go west into Wilson County for anything that can be avoided, I had to go out there today. It must have been Fate, because while there I discovered there is a brand new grocery store that has opened. This new store is the closest Publix grocery store to my house. That is so awesome! Now I can go to Publix more often!