Saint Gibbets Oil

I was surprised when I read Kay's post which picked up on my earlier post about using Alexa to make our shopping list. I was pleased to see that the concept is working well for her too.

There is another thing that I have recently learned to have Alexa do -- have her remind me.

For awhile now, I have had her issue a standard reminder at 9:15 to do my exercises. I don't always comply, especially this week, and I seldom comply right then. But I have learned that I can say to her: "Remind me again in x minutes." Or I may pick a specific time like 10 o'clock.

I am not sure how long after her initial reminder I have to make that request, but I make it right away, to which she complies and replies.

So Alexa is grand, but one item on her list puzzled me on a recent shopping trip: Saint Gibbets. I had no idea what the item was supposed to actually be, and neither did Sue when I texted her from the store.

We still wonder and puzzle over Saint Gibbets.

There was another mysterious item on that same list -- oil -- and we don't don't know what that was about either as we did not need cooking oil or anything resembling oil at the time. I can't remember now whether the two items, Saint Gibbets and Oil appeared consecutively on the list, but they weren't together on the same line.

Whatever the items were meant to be, we have not found ourselves lacking anything that we might have needed.

So, Alexa has supplied us with some fun as well.

Here's one more -- Sekere's -- but we know what that is. When I said 'we,' I had to rely on Sue to figure it out -- Secaris (as in ointment of a kind).

But I don't need an Alexa list on this shopping day as it is a pickup order since we are back into lockdown although that isn't quite the right word. Let's just say that things are highly restricted and that we shouldn't be meeting others or having them in our homes. We will continue to make an exception for the grandkids as long as their mother feels that they have been isolating themselves sufficiently. In this case, Danica will becoming for a sleepover either tonight or tomorrow.