Yes, she is continuing with the sale BUT only doing a auctions which run a couple of days. I applaud her for her idea of doing this type of auction. Great way to get rid of the extras. I can't buy any but I would definitely vouch for her. I can say the Berma Abercombie daylily I got from her last fall took off right away. She was so generous with the fans but they also increased so I should have a nice large clump blooming this year. If your reading this Chris, you are an enabler ;-). Julia

I wonder if you popped into Mission Stone & Tile's store, and tell them you read about them on Garden Web, during the Tile Giveaway contest, maybe they might be able to help you out? I don't know, just a thought. I've never been in the store, but it's worth checking out. Ask for Mary Elizabeth (the owner/President). Of course, there must be a HD or Lowe's there. You can always get buyer friendly white subways at a bargain there. Good Luck.

I want to go shopping with Marilyn too. I see Fresh Thyme is a chain, I was going to say the closest nice farmers market to us won't be open other than weekends until the end of this month...and it's an hour away. We're really short a good local store now with losing our Haggen Top foods to their bankruptcy. Walmart remodeled and added full grocery and there seems to be a wide variety, many choices, of packaged foods, canned, spices etc but I don't buy a lot of those products - I am not impressed with produce, dairy, meats there. That pretty much leaves Safeway. With this weeks sale I paid 87 cents/pound for whole chickens yesterday. 69 cents/lb for cabbage. Asparagus was $2.99/lb and I passed, didn't buy any. Avocados $1.50 each. Not a real bargain in the basket ;-) Nicole, I just went back and read through your figures. Wow. You may take the best shoppers award for the day....

We went to Academy sports, they had a great sale price on some very cute short boots. I don't have anything like that anymore. I like them for wearing with my skinny leg pants and jeans. I was trying to decide between a brown pair and a black pair. Hubby said Merry Christmas get both since they are on sale. I mean a girl has to rebuild her shoe collection! So I got both. We needed to replace our good electric knife and they had a $79 one on sale for $29. We got it. The best electric knives are found in the fishing department for filleting fish. Awesome knives. I used to buy the ones you find in kitchen goods, no comparison. One year for Christmas I bought my mom and mother in law each one of them. They were amazed at how much better they were. So if you need a good electric knife go check out the fishing department! Academy has quite a few. Also at academy we both got new slippers. Great price on them. The knife https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/american-angler-classic-electric-fillet-knife#repChildCatid=4944834