Stocked up

 

We shop at the Costco down on 4th Avenue, the first one to open in the world.  Like Starbucks, Costco was "invented" in Seattle, for better or worse. 

Warehouse shopping was still a big novelty in the early 1980's, and we would drop by for a $1.50 hot dog and soda. Those were the days when you could zip around Seattle without a care in the world. Seattle didn't even have a Home Depot then, just some nice locally owned hardware stores like "Ernst." I am seriously dating myself.

Anyway, I set a personal best yesterday for amount spent in a single shopping trip. Woo-hoo. Not hoarding, just buying the mundane stuff so I don't have to go back for a long time. Other than everyone wearing a masks (which feels normal now) it was business as usual in there. 

Hopefully we've seen the last of the panic buying. People were buying reasonable amounts of stuff, which by Costco standards, of course, is excessive.  The lack of free sample lines clogging the aisles was the most conspicuous change-- no great loss.

I'm glad the little freezer is packed with good things to last us through the holidays. Hopefully the power stays on. We're headed into a long stretch of rough weather, with a series of storms stretching way into next week.  Feet of snow in the mountains, inches of rain and wind in the lowlands.