A Very Cold Day

Sue intensely dislikes grocery shopping, so I do it. I am actually fine with it. I have time on my hands, so I wander the aisles at my petty pace.

Our store of choice has offered pickup shopping for awhile now. WMart also does it, but I try to avoid that store because I just find it to be a sterile, soul-sucking place. So I shop at Your Independent Grocer, and their name for this service is PC Express. You make out your order online, and they shop it for you and even bring it to the car.

Of course, not being averse to shopping, I haven't used the service, but times change and needs must, if you will permit me to go into full cliché mode. Utilizing pickup just seems like another timely isolating step to take at this point in time.

But I guess everybody is thinking that way, and so it will be 4 days between dropping the order and picking it up. I have been assured that this is not the typical case — until just recently, that is.

It is a relatively small order, more for trial purposes. We will probably still need help from daughter until we get into a routine.

Someone in our community set up a fb group to assist one another in these trying times and that's where I posed my questions about how the service works. I had the answers within a half hour. This is unlike the company's phone line which was overburdened.

Before resorting to this pickup method, I had been planning on using the senior hour from 8-9 and asking my questions to a staff member. But when I heard that younger folks were crashing the scene, I decided not to join the circus for the time being. Also, since then, the store has reduced the number of customers they allow in at one time, and I don't fancy waiting outside in line at this time.

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Time for our daily isolation selfie: A Toast to the Morning

The morning began with sunshine, so I went out early to see the geese and get some light on the subject for a change. But oh brother sister was it cold!

While I can survive -10C/14F quite well, but with a brisk wind to boot, the photo fingers get quite cold and even a bit numb.

I say geese, but it was the ducks who starred that morning. One performed a little ballet for me.

I like it if I can get some reeds in the foreground. I tried to get the foreground duck swimming between  two prominent reeds.

I did that goosing and ducking on a very cold morning, but it was still cold and excessively windy for our afternoon outing.

We drove to Riverside Park and took a wee walk into Roy Brown Park where there is a fenced dog run. You maybe able to glimpse the fence way behind Sue. Does she look a tad chilly?

Sue took one of me and my silly cane.

Much of our snow and ice has gone, but there remains an ice shelf on the shady side of the river.

We then sat in the warmth of the car while a a goose foraged in the temporary pond near the river's edge. I photographed it, but at maximum zoom and through the windshield, the photos isn't sharp. This was an odd goose with 4 legs and 2 bums.

We brought our own coffee and cookies. It wasn't the same as stopping at the drive through, but we continue to do our bit a avoid as much contact as possible. This was our second selfie yesterday.