Tony Brewer

Well the turkey is in the oven, and the house is smelling wonderful! I am looking forward to a few great turkey sandwiches over the next couple of days! I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Teri and I have invited a few friends over for dinner, and everyone is supposed to bring a dish. I’m making one of my own favorites – green bean casserole. You know, the one with mushroom soup and french fried onions. Yummy!  I hope someone brings the sweet potato dish with marshmallows on top.  I don’t like sweet potatoes unless the marshmallows are there too!

A couple of months ago a new grocery store opened in town – a Harris Teeter store. I haven’t had the chance, or perhaps I should say need to go there until today. It seems that the other stores in town have stopped stocking a few of my favorite brands of food items, so I decided to go to the Harris Teeter store and see if they carry the items.

Tops on my list is Reese’s Peanut butter. My favorite! Up until recently our Wal-Mart carried it, but they haven’t had it for over a month now. So today I looked at Harris Teeter, and was shocked at how small and puny their peanut butter and jelly section is! And no, they don’t carry Reese’s peanut butter. I wonder if this is an indication of elitism on their part, not having a big selection of peanut butters and jellies!

Yesterday we saw some new neighbors move in across the street.  Teri and I went over with a pan of freshly baked brownies to welcome them to the neighborhood.  We told them that if they needed any advice about what to see and do, or who to go to for things like Satellite TV Providers and cell phone companies, garbage collectors etc.  You know, the whole nine yards type of thing.  Their names are Jack and Susan, and we found out that they are nurses that have just moved from New York to work in the local hospital.

They seemed to be a very nice couple and they thanked us for the brownies.  They invited us in to share them with a nice tall cold glass of milk.  We got to know their two dogs while we were there; very cute Jack Russel Terriers.   Jack did ask us about whether Direct TV Satellite was the best option for television services in this neighborhood.  He said that he wanted Direct TV for a long time and could not get it where he used to live because of covenants against the antennas in his neighborhood. 

I told him that he shouldn’t have any problems at all with that; there are no covenants against antennas in our neighborhood.  He was really glad to hear that and said he’ll be ordering his television service tomorrow morning!

My sister gave me a Dairy Queen gift card last month for my birthday.  Today Teri and I were driving past a Dairy Queen and we decided to swing in and buy some Dilly Bars and eat lunch.  So we placed the order and I presented the gift card to the cashier to pay for the purchase.  Imagine my surprise when they told me that they don’t accept gift cards at their store!  I couldn’t believe it!  Needless to say we were quite upset and we put the Dilly Bars back in the freezer and simply paid for our lunch.  I guess I’ll have to go online and find another Dairy Queen and ask them if they accept the gift cards!

I’ve always known that bananas ripen quickly, but what happened this morning was crazy!  I went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of bananas that were still under-ripe a little bit.  No brown or black spots at all, just light yellow and tinges of green.  An hour later when I unpacked them from the grocery store that bunch of bananas was over-ripe.  One of the bananas was crushed, the skin broken and brown liquid was oozing out of  it!  I have NEVER seen anything like that before!  It is hard to believe that is the same bunch of bananas that I picked up off of the grocery display!