Lucky Shoes

I never win lotteries or raffles so I was stunned when I had good luck finding a discontinued shoe I bought repeatedly for 18 years.  My brace man trimmed my leg brace to fit the shoe shown below.  Buying the same shoe over and over meant I never had to try on shoes to see if they fit.  On a lark, I went to the shoe store I have been using for 18 years and asked if they had this shoe stashed in the back even though it is no longer made.  I was stunned when the salesman walked out of the back room swinging 2 boxes with a grin on his face.  They were not only size 6 double wide, they were the beige color that goes with everything.  He was glad to sell them and I was thrilled to delay wondering if my brace would fit a new shoe. homeafterastroke.blogspot

On-line Grocery Shopping

Janet is a dear friend who can speak truth with kindness.  She gently talked me into paying a grocery store employee to shop for me during the winter.  Thanks to Janet, I did not become hysterical about being stuck in my house with no grocercies because of a blizzard.  When weather reports became dire, I ordered groceries on-line and picked them up before the snow storm hit.  This photo shows I was right to worry.

The designated parking spaces I have to use for on-line grocery shopping are too narrow for me to put a shopping cart next to my car to unload groceries.  So I put groceries in my trunk.  I am glad I put boxes and a cooler in my trunk before my 1st attempt.  I do not want to use my cane to fish around for cans and round produce that could roll to the back of my trunk.  homeafterstroke.blogspot.com