October is the month of plenty of pork, for a long time was the month for hog slaughtering on farms. Usually this month pork prices are the lowest of the year.
I went to two grocery stores today. Sausage was on my shopping list. Walmart (main instigator of the shortages?) has had more foods in stock than I've seen in years but had virtually no sausage. A few packs of patties or links but no rolls of sausage at all.
Went to another regional chain store. They had more but not a lot. only three or four rolls of one brand. And the price was sky high. It was about $3 a roll a couple of weeks ago. Today it was $4.49.
This store always has pork chops for a great price in October. I didn't look at the prices but nothing was on special and I haven't seen any on sale all month.
Higher prices on any meat isn't a shock but why the dearth of sausage in a month when pork is usually more plentiful than any other time of year?
That is so funny. I love crows. I know, I wouldn't if I grew corn. I would love to see a yard full of drunk birds. I don't think we have chinaberries here. Is that a tree?
Kindles don't have a camera, you must be thinking of a tablet. The Kindle is designed to be easy on the eyes and the lighted screen doesn't shine in your eyes, unlike a tablet or a computer. I balked and balked at getting one but once I finally did, it was an epiphany. Yes, there is a Kindle app. I have it on my phone but seldom use it because it is hard on my eyes. Magnifying didn't help. But better quality of the page and lighting mainly.
I'm a lot better off now than before I had surgery. I couldn't see anything. Faces of people right in front of me were pink blurs or brown blurs. I can see okay now but still have a lot of trouble with glare, not seeing well in bad light, halos on bright lights. I also can't see very well in places with bad, cheap fluorescent lights. Like Walmart. LOL
The Kindle was a godsend because I have been a bookworm since I learned to read.
I hope you take after your grandfather, eyes and ages.
My Kindle Fire does have cameras, both front and rear. They aren't as good as real cameras, or even the ones on a cell phone, but I have used the Fire to copy a reference book in a library that I needed to research from. I put a 128 GB micro-SD card in it, so it has room for thousands of books. It has a color screen and is Android, so I suppose it counts as a tablet, but it has just a 7 inch screen. I can actually slide it into my shirt pocket. You can also buy a cover for it that makes it easier to hold, acts as a stand, and shuts the Fire down when you shut it. Of course, it won't fit in a pocket then. So I don't have a cover on mine, but my wife has one. You can go on the internet, play games, and more.
When Cyber Monday comes this year after Thanksgiving, look for Amazon to have them on a ridiculous sale. I bought mine several years ago for $29.99. I bought my wife one, and she loves to read books on it and watch TV shows and movies on it. Because it was so cheap, I bought some a year later for Christmas presents. The current price is $49.99. You can get one with more internal memory for $69.99, although you can set it up to install new apps on the SD card instead of in the internal memory, so I would get the cheaper one. The book reader app I downloaded is called Aldiko. It can read most of the book formats, including PDF files. I can save documents as PDF files to take with me. It helps in genealogy research.
Aspie, don't know if you need another Fire, but Amazon has the 8 inch Fire HD on sale for $44 something right now, $9 a mo, if you have Prime.
That 8" won't fit in my shirt pocket. Also, they have revised the operating system to make it hard to load content. You can't just copy files to an SD and stick it in the Fire and have it read them. My old Fire does this just fine. I can carry almost everything I own in a tin of microSD cards and swap them out when necessary. You can fit a lot on a 128GB card, and a lot of those cards will fit in an Altoids tin.
I saw the larger one on sale yesterday. Thanks for the info.
Jut wanted to make sure you saw it if you wanted one.
Yeah, the Fires are tablets, not ereaders. I have one of those too and they are really handy. I never read books on it, it tires my eyes too much. It is great for reading if you don't have eye problems, though. Easy to download books and most of the functions of the Kindle ereaders. One big advantage is reading magazines or books with color photos. Everything is B&W on a Kindle.
I wouldn't miss Cyber Monday or Black Friday on Amazon for anything, even if Bezos is a villain. Last year I got a garden wagon I use all the time for about half price. Another bargain they also offer usually at one or the other, if you don't have one, is the Instant Pot pressure cooker. If your wife doesn't have one, I'll bet she'd love it. They're not dangerous like the old pressure cookers our mothers had. The kind that were low yield kitchen weapons.
Being a Virginian, you know I love genealogy. LOL
If you have relatives in central VA, we might be related. I have ancestors from the 1700s who lived in Goochland, Fluvanna, Louisa, and some in Culpeper.
We're from Southside (Mom's family) and Shenandoah Valley (Daddy's family.) We actually have some distant relatives in NC. The original guy on Daddy's side came over in 1711 to PA and others from the family went to NC while he settled in the Valley. He was one of the first settlers in the Valley.
I did a lot of genealogical work on Daddy's family years ago. Got stuck on Mom's side, mainly because records were destroyed by Yankees during Civil War.