Hundred Degree Shopping

Yesterday it was 100 degrees out and we went shopping during the heat of the day.

It requires a little different approach to the problem. How you stay reasonably conformable is to keep butting down the liquid. The stores all are air conditioned here in the valley. The big issue is getting from one to another in the heat.

Yesterday we were looking for a new stand to hold the receivers, the Dvd players and teh game consoles in the bedroom. We needed a piece of furniture that was both tall (about 30inches) and narrow (not more that about 19inches). Our first stop was Target. We left home with a cold drink in hand. We arrived at Target about a mile from our house with the drink can consumed. While in Target, we became thirty again. We stopped at the Target Pizza Hut and bought big lemonades around. The minute maid light by Coke is perfect for such a trip as it has no caffeine and is sweetened by an artificial sweetener. Target had a few student desks that could have worked. Nothing was much under 150 dollars. They were also just a little too wide for what we wanted. We really didn't find what we were shopping for so Sue headed over to Orchard Supply.
I didn't think that we would have much success there but Sue wanted to check it out. She headed over via the light on Olive with here power chair. After a close call at the intersection, nothing uncommon for power chair participants, she arrived just as I was pulling in to the parking lot. We looked at several possibilities in the store and just as we were about to leave we noticed a whole grouping of Sanders furniture, made in the USA. There were several possibilities but none reached out and grabbed us as this was the one to fit the needs. I ran into an friend that I had met at lunch for 15 years. We talked and Sue got bored and headed with her power chair over to do Ross. We were still gabbing in the aisle when she returned.

We decided to go to Turlock and see if the selection might be better and one of those kitchen/linen stores. On the way up Sue suggested that we go on up to Modesto instead and eat at Olive Garden. She was anxious to taste the dressing on their salad again. But please stop along the way for a drink. We found a "hot" drink in the back seat to take care of the liquid part for a while.

In Modesto at the thrift store we found an small oak entertainment center for 20 bucks. Of course Sue needed to run through the clothes while I bought it and loaded it into the car. It is going to need a refinish and a much darker stain and then a shiny finish. For 20 dollars as a starting place it should be great. Since were were there, we felt that we might as well do the other Goodwill cross town. Sue said to me whatever, I need to have you get me another drink. While she was going through the stacks, I walked through the end of the parking lot to the Target and bought two big MM light lemonades, with mostly ice. She met me along the way and drank her large cup immediately.

With all of this liquid it she wasn't interested in dinner until we got to Turlock. I suggested Panera. She said that she knew exactly what she wanted since she had been to one with the BKs earlier this month.

Panera is one of the few places that gets it regarding caffeine free diet coke. So a heavenly roast beef sandwich for her on french roll and an Italian sandwich for me on Chibata. Later, the drink menu had me refilling my large drink for her on the way out. She drank it all before we got to Atwater.

This drink consumption is very different when the weather is cool. No drinks are needed between dinner stops. This is what one hundred degree shopping requires.

: ) Stay hydrated! Pat