This is sort of a "What would you do?" sort
of topic. As most of you know I go food shopping on Thursdays with a
stop at The Dollar Tree. I will usually ask the breezeway group if they
want anything and every once in awhile someone will say "Toothpaste" or
"Laundry detergent" and I have no problem getting the item. Most will
pay me when I bring the items to the breezeway meeting that evening but
every now and then one of the women insist that I take the extra dollar
or two that she puts in my hand. I will refuse it but she insists that I
take it and if I tell her that I won't get her anything anymore she
smiles and puts the money in my pocket.

A dollar or two isn't much but when you live
in subsidized housing and the only income you have is your Social
Security you really can't afford to throw away a dollar here and a
dollar there. I am going there anyway so it isn't a question of extra
time or gas or wear and tear on the car. How would you handle it?

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Sad, bad news. Due to health problems, after
13 years of having them, Jill has to give her birds up. I really would
love to keep them but as it is I am having eye problems which my doctor
thinks is being caused by the birds I already have. They really are good
birds, not any trouble at all, and I have sort of 'fallen in love' with
Andi. Meanwhile I am e-mailing all my friends in the area plus I will
talk to Babs about possibly putting a notice in our paper next month. I
have had an inquiry already from a bird person which would be good.

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On the left are some seeds I planted two
weeks ago and on the right is the growth since. Hopefully with the rain
and sun we are having there should be flowers soon. I did make a mistake
though by not marking what I planted in which box and I know there are
herbs somewhere in there!!!

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I had a few other things on my mind I wanted
to talk about, while rant about one of them, including cellphones and
someones remark about it being a 'generational thing'--BULL!! More about
that tomorrow.