Valentines Day is just around the corner. One of my Valentines has a birthday on Valentines Day. I won't say which one, that isn't polite. But I do know she has celebrated a good many of them in Peru. If I had the means I'd go down and take her out for dinner. But she'd have to order!!
Heard something today I didn't think I'd live long enough to hear. My nice friend Deborah was in the store, visiting her husband or shopping or both, and I saw her. I ask her if she had been out making snow angels. I remember a picture she had on a blog or somewhere of her and I believe their daughter making snow angels. She said, and no I hain't lying, "I have had it with the snow." This is a woman who would spot a single snowflake out the front windows of the office and go tearing around the office screaming, "It's snowing, it's snowing." Never thought I'd hear that.
Anyway, back to Valentine's Day. One of our young cashiers brought in Valentines cookies yesterday for anyone who wanted one. I was at Wal-Mart before 5am this morning getting a couple of get well cards for one of my associates in my department who was in the hospital and had to plow through a cazillion Valentine cards to find them.
Candies are out. Flowers, cards, diamonds and a host of other things to help one take on an air of romanticism are everywhere you look. I may have to send some cards this year. I have three very young Valentines now to buy for, and that will be fun. And there are some sweet older Valentines that have enriched my life and brought me wonderful memories and moments. I may have to find some nice cards and thank them for being so nice to me at times in my life. I'll tell you about it here if I manage to get it done. Maybe you'd like to send your valentine(s) a note as well.
We are digging out of the latest of this 09/10 winter's weather we have been thrown. I think this one ended at around 10 to 12 inches in our area. I know many places had more and some had less, but my home area, Oklahoma, seemed to be hit hardest with ice. The town I lived in during my last 2 years in Oklahoma, Altus, was hit pretty hard and lost electricity throughout much of the city. We had a day of slow going on Saturday with a terrible sales day at work, but by Sunday things picked back up and we had a good day. I watched several large power products leave my department today headed for the registers so I am hoping we did well today over all.
Early Saturday morning we had a number of folks come in wanting tire chains. The Interstates were in pretty miserable shape most of Saturday, especially early in the day. If I carried them I could have sold quite a lot of them between the last snow storm and this one. We have sold more snow shovels and bags of ice melt than I think I've ever seen before. Snow blowers were pretty much gone the first day of the first storm. and with this winter weather the manufacturers are not going to be able to build them fast enough. We can't get any until next fall. Isn't it amazing how we put off buying things until we are desperate for them? I do too. Don't want to spend the money until we have to. Of course a snow shovel isn't a major investment. I'd say buying one of them during a summer sale would be a safe investment.
Happy February to you. Only 27 days until March and just after that April showers with May flowers soon to follow. When you are scraping the windows or clearing a path to the street remember how quick it will be summer again. You can be quiet, Barbara. We know you don't have any snow. You don't need to rub it in.
