TRIPLEX
Yesterday I had to make a run to the post office to mail Christmas cards. It is spendy to send a registered card to a foreign country...phew! At any rate the day was raining intermittently; tiny drops, tinkles and splashes and TORRENTIAL!. I decided to pick up a box o donuts for the guys working the wet next door on the triplex. I got a guided tour! They are getting close to being finished. The downstairs unit closest to us is a one bedroom. The bathroom is in front right off the living room. They took down a wall and door into the kitchen, put up an island and the counter is a dark blue ceramic, gorgeous. White cabinets. Sink under the window which looks into one of our downstairs windows There is a nice large bedroom in the back. Next to bedroom and next to kitchen is a laundry room. I would have rather had a bathroom in the back. The flooring is a very nice wood like tile. These units will be rentals and this one will go for $700. Not bad.
The unit on the other side is two bedroom, refinished in a similar style. There is a small deck off to one side.
Upstairs is not finished yet. I commented that the parking would be really good. Nope they are going to build a small house to replace the nasty one that was torn down.
DOLLAR STORE
I have never shopped much at a Dollar Store, I thought they only sold cheap decorations and party supplies. Had no idea they sold groceries.
CBS Sunday morning had a piece about Dollar Stores. There about 50,000 Dollar stores in the USA There 5000 stores popping up on a monthly basis. A lot of these stores are built in small towns with only one grocery story. The Dollar stores stock in bulk anything, canned, boxed, bottled, in jars, jugs or bags. The prices are cheap. The balance of the goods are high sugar, high sodium, high calorie. The Dollar stores do NOT sell bread, dairy, fresh vegetables or meat. When the little grocery goes out of business, the residents must drive 30 miles to a store that sells those items.
A Dollar General store just opened in Myrtle Point within one mile of the McKay's store. I worry. I will ask Joe, the local McKay's manager if he thinks there will be an effect. One good point the folks in Myrtle Point can drive 11 miles to Coquille or about 60 to Roseburg to the exotic Trader Joes. Erk.
MISS UNIVERSE
I saw where Miss Universe 2019 is from South Africa. She is beautiful. Then the show reported the other major beauty pageants had black women win those crowns. It made for quite a picture. Got to wondering about the racial ratio's between black and white. I tried asking Alexa what the world population of black people was. She answered, "Hmmm. I'm not sure." grump. She was able to answer that the population of Africa was 1.2 billion. This was way too complicated. Giving that query up I asked the population of Canada 36 million. Population Australia 25 million. Huh. Sumpin' to ponder.
Yesterday I had to make a run to the post office to mail Christmas cards. It is spendy to send a registered card to a foreign country...phew! At any rate the day was raining intermittently; tiny drops, tinkles and splashes and TORRENTIAL!. I decided to pick up a box o donuts for the guys working the wet next door on the triplex. I got a guided tour! They are getting close to being finished. The downstairs unit closest to us is a one bedroom. The bathroom is in front right off the living room. They took down a wall and door into the kitchen, put up an island and the counter is a dark blue ceramic, gorgeous. White cabinets. Sink under the window which looks into one of our downstairs windows There is a nice large bedroom in the back. Next to bedroom and next to kitchen is a laundry room. I would have rather had a bathroom in the back. The flooring is a very nice wood like tile. These units will be rentals and this one will go for $700. Not bad.
The unit on the other side is two bedroom, refinished in a similar style. There is a small deck off to one side.
Upstairs is not finished yet. I commented that the parking would be really good. Nope they are going to build a small house to replace the nasty one that was torn down.
DOLLAR STORE
I have never shopped much at a Dollar Store, I thought they only sold cheap decorations and party supplies. Had no idea they sold groceries.
CBS Sunday morning had a piece about Dollar Stores. There about 50,000 Dollar stores in the USA There 5000 stores popping up on a monthly basis. A lot of these stores are built in small towns with only one grocery story. The Dollar stores stock in bulk anything, canned, boxed, bottled, in jars, jugs or bags. The prices are cheap. The balance of the goods are high sugar, high sodium, high calorie. The Dollar stores do NOT sell bread, dairy, fresh vegetables or meat. When the little grocery goes out of business, the residents must drive 30 miles to a store that sells those items.
A Dollar General store just opened in Myrtle Point within one mile of the McKay's store. I worry. I will ask Joe, the local McKay's manager if he thinks there will be an effect. One good point the folks in Myrtle Point can drive 11 miles to Coquille or about 60 to Roseburg to the exotic Trader Joes. Erk.
MISS UNIVERSE
I saw where Miss Universe 2019 is from South Africa. She is beautiful. Then the show reported the other major beauty pageants had black women win those crowns. It made for quite a picture. Got to wondering about the racial ratio's between black and white. I tried asking Alexa what the world population of black people was. She answered, "Hmmm. I'm not sure." grump. She was able to answer that the population of Africa was 1.2 billion. This was way too complicated. Giving that query up I asked the population of Canada 36 million. Population Australia 25 million. Huh. Sumpin' to ponder.
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