zahzeen: I saw this post about an hour after I left Ocean State Job Lot in Buzzards Bay with a couple of 40 lb bags of birdseed. I would have checked out the Crocs if I'd known (or noticed them). I was in a determined eyes-forward mode so I missed the sale. I love Crocs for casual wear, although I avoid looking at my feet, and they're no good for digging with a shovel. The winter Wooly Mammoth Crocs might be OK for digging, but I don't dig much in the winter. Anyway, thanks for the post and I'll take a look when I need some more birdseed. Claire

I am always suspicious of the "too good to be true" items sold at these 'odd lot' and 'dollar stores'. All to often it has been proven that the items are counterfeit. Rolex watches anyone?? Coach bags for $5? Even the food items at these places have often found to be counterfeit. If you bought the shoes and found them to be soft and not the hard plastic ones great. Some of the knock-offs are just as good as the Crocs and some are no good. I will buy knock-offs of brand name items but I refuse to buy counterfeit items based on principle.

I swore up and down that I would never have a pair, they were the ugliest shoes I had ever seen and I don't allow ugly shoes in my closet. Then one day I had to take my husband to a special shoe store for diabetic shoes. While I was walking around I saw a display of what looked like pins. They had a little chihuahua there and since I have three real chihuahuas, I bought one. After I got home, I was wondering how I was going to wear this pin since the back wasn't like any pin I had ever seen before. Apparently, I am a little slow and it finally dawned on me that you were suppose to wear them on Crocks. So, off I went to Target ( it was closer than the shoe store I took hubby too which is way across town) to get a pair of $30.00 Crocks to put my $2.99 pin on. They didn't have any Crocks but did have some knock offs. I found a pair of pink swirly ones in my size and got them. Went home and put my little pin on the right one, that made the left one look naked. Went back across town to the shoe store and bought another chihuahua pin plus a turtle, parrot, sun and dolphin. I'm good to go Crock wise if not mentally. Vique.

Yep, really. Saw it fluttering by the roadside on a rare mid-70 degree sunny day last Saturday, 10/29. A couple hours later I saw a Cabbage butterfly, too. Making me think to check the milkweeds for eggs and cats much later than usual next fall.... Vince