Now it's eggs

I placed a grocery order on line last week, and I went to pick up the shopping yesterday. When I placed the order, there was no yeast available at all. Okay, fine. We have bread in the freezer. But we are almost out of eggs. At Intermarché, the woman who was working the drive-thru operation informed me that one item I'd ordered was not available: eggs. I asked her: Can't you substitute other eggs for the ones I ordered? No, she said, the man in charge said he couldn't make substitutions on your order because you had pre-paid.

Ah bon, I said, c'est quand même embêtant. She shrugged. After she rolled the bin containing my groceries out to the car and started helping me load them into the trunk, I asked her again. Excusez-moi, I said, il n'y a vraiment pas moyen d'avoir des œufs? Non, she said, brusquely. C'est impossible. I didn't bother asking about yeast. I hadn't even ordered any yeast. So that was that.

I was wearing gloves. Even so, I took them off when I got back in the car. I squirted some alcohol-based disinfectant I'd taken with me into the palm of one hand and then rubbed my hands together. I also rubbed the disinfectant all over the steering wheel, even though I was the only person who had touched it. You can never be too careful.

I had already started putting together a list for our next on-line grocery order. We're alternating between Intermarché and Super U. I had planned to go pick up the items on that order next week, because I need to go to the pharmacy then anyway, and it's in the same neighborhood. When I got home, I added eggs to that list. Maybe we'll be luckier next time. Then I looked on the Super U web site to see when the next pick-up slot would be available.

Tomorrow! Wednesday May 6. Cool. Walt needs to go to the pharmacy that very day, so he'll swing by Super U and pick up the groceries. I got some frozen spinach from Intermarché, and I was looking forward to making an omelet. We've got plenty of cheese. I include a couple of cheeses in every order I place on line, because cheese is good with everything. I'm also hoping Super U will have yeast. Their web site says it's available for purchase. But Intermarché's site said eggs were available. So you just never know.

I'm including a few recent photos in this post. Since there are only three occupied houses on our end of the hamlet, and three that are unoccupied, I've been picking a few flowers, mostly roses, that are blooming in the absent neighbors' yards (not to mention ours) and bringing them into the house. They're beautiful, and they smell really good. I've also been taking photos of flowers outside on days when it's not raining.