Thursday, August 15, 2024
We met Mike and Mary at the Laurel Supper Club for a fabulous steak dinner. Great food, great conversation, great company. Simply the best way to spend a Thursday evening.
We came home via Hwy 36, with the intention of stopping at HyVee in Oakdale on the way home. They have a particular thing I wanted. I didn’t want it enough to drive to Oakdale (it is NEXT to Woodbury – but Woodbury has a force field around it – no one wants to leave. It’s how I got my dear friend Carla – we were two of the only four people in a mom group who were willing to leave Woodbury for a playgroup – 30 years ago!)
The terrific thing about our stop at HyVee is that we remembered to do it. When we got on the off ramp and waited at the light, there was a blue car, an SUV, a black car and us. The blue car was leaning out, waiting for the coast to be clear to turn right, and the SUV was really pushing him, then it looked like he was going to try to go around him on the right, then he just smashed into the back of him. Seems he was also leaning out, looking for the coast to be clear from the left without checking to see who was IN FRONT OF HIM. Darn. The light turned as they pulled onto the shoulder. We wondered if we were supposed to stop and volunteer offers of eye-witnessing, but we didn’t. Should we have? I don’t know.
We went to HyVee to find the item and eggs. (Eggs have been magically good lately. I wonder what that is about.) We found the item (YAY!), then were in the candy aisle, just looking – because they have a seriously inviting candy aisle. As we browsed, he spotted a case of Jolly Good cream soda sitting in a cart of stuff. It didn’t look like someone’s cart; it was boxes of stuff to move around the store or something. Jolly Good is from southern Wisconsin and it is terrific. Benjamin just brought a case of cream for Alexander last weekend. We indulge in their diet soda sometimes. We had to find it on the shelf and check the prices.
We looked in the soda aisle.
Nope.
We looked in the special part of the store that has gluten free and sugar free and other free stuff – and an aisle of beverages (one part was labelled ‘functional beverages’. What does that mean?).
Nope.
We found the juice aisle.
Nope.
AHHH! Specialty sodas!
Nope.
Mmmm. We started doing all the aisles.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
I was determined. I went back to the case sitting in the cart just to make sure we had actually seen it. When I found Keith, he was asking some workers about it. Neither of them had ever heard of it. They came back to see it. They said it was a cart of stuff to be put out on shelves, so it must be a new product. Apparently, I guess they aren’t going all in if they have 12 cans, but it’s a start.
But we do have a guy that imports with no extra fees. I don’t actually think we even pay him for the product….