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We lost power again last night. It was about midnight and there was a fairly large ka-bang and a flash of light and everything went dead. From what one of our neighbors said it was a transformer blowing up or something. It was fine for the first 8 hours, but then it got really warm in the apartment and I couldn't sleep anymore. I got up and took the pooch for his morning walk. I spent most of it hoping that when I got back the air would be back on. No such luck though. It didn't make a comeback until about 1:00 in the afternoon. I'm just glad we didn't have to ditch all the food in our refrigerator again. That would have sucked as we just went shopping for lots of yummy foods.
Last night we had some fantabulous tilapia. Usually the fish at the Pulix isn't terribly appealing (sort of old and off-color), but when we were shopping it actually looked very good. Roland whipped up a breading and pan seared it. MMmmmm....tasterific.
Back to the morning walk:
While Bleys and I were out this morning we walked past the hurricane debris disposal site that they set up in the sports complex. It is crazy busy non-stop. There is a tent/camper village where people are apparently living during the cleanup. There is two vast piles of brush/trees/branches on either side of a gargantuan mound of mulch. They now have two, count them two, ba-giant industrial sized chipper-mulcher things (the kind you can stick like 5 full sized trees into at once. They are incredible. Originally they were just making one pile of mulch in the middle until it started smoking on its way to smoldering so they started trucking in out and spreading it around a bit so they wouldn't have a city block sized fire on their hands. Good call. I also saw a guy cutting a piece of plywood with a chainsaw. Fascinating, yet incredibly dangerous. I wonder how long it will take to not only get all the debris to the cleanup sites, but to actually get it all mulched and taken care of.
Last night we had some fantabulous tilapia. Usually the fish at the Pulix isn't terribly appealing (sort of old and off-color), but when we were shopping it actually looked very good. Roland whipped up a breading and pan seared it. MMmmmm....tasterific.
Back to the morning walk:
While Bleys and I were out this morning we walked past the hurricane debris disposal site that they set up in the sports complex. It is crazy busy non-stop. There is a tent/camper village where people are apparently living during the cleanup. There is two vast piles of brush/trees/branches on either side of a gargantuan mound of mulch. They now have two, count them two, ba-giant industrial sized chipper-mulcher things (the kind you can stick like 5 full sized trees into at once. They are incredible. Originally they were just making one pile of mulch in the middle until it started smoking on its way to smoldering so they started trucking in out and spreading it around a bit so they wouldn't have a city block sized fire on their hands. Good call. I also saw a guy cutting a piece of plywood with a chainsaw. Fascinating, yet incredibly dangerous. I wonder how long it will take to not only get all the debris to the cleanup sites, but to actually get it all mulched and taken care of.
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posted by Susan at 7:10 PM
4 Comments:
Man, you guys just cannot get a break! I'm glad your power is back now, and that your food is still good. Isn't Publix a great grocery store? (There is one that K's mom & grandma go to and we went there a couple times while visiting.) I wish we had one here.
No way! Meijer is way better than Publix, at least judging from the two nearest us. Publix is like a poor man's D&W and SuperTarget is like a poor man's Meijer. At least, in my experience.
I agree with Dave. I (can't believe I'm going to say this) miss Meijer. I would say Publix is slightly below average when it comes to dry goods (variety and whatnot), well below average when it comes to fruit and veggies (aren't we supposed to be in prime fruit/veggie land here), and dismal in the meat/fish department.
SuperTarget is a bit better, but still not as good as Meijer was up north. We did find a pretty good Whole Foods Market and a nice little Italian joint, but to shop at these places mean you need to go to one for these 5 items and the other for those 5 items and to SuperTarget or Publix for the stuff that is apparently to general for the small guy to carry. Oh, well.
Wow! I guess the Publix in West Palm must be better than the one by yous two. The West Palm one had a lot of delectable fresh breads and all kinds of good stuff. Our Meijer has been "reorganizing" (read: moving absolutely every damn thing in the store but with no rhyme or reason and mostly just leaving giant pallets of crap in the middle of every single aisle) for the past few months and it's insane. We're finally almost able to find things but they're not done yet. So I'm down on Meijer lately.
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