Another one bites the dust

Today marks 2 weeks since my surgery. Since I’ve done very little more than sit and lie around and heal (except one trip to restart physical therapy) we decided to do something today. Being Labor Day weekend and living in an area that thrives on the tourist dollar we decided to use our “local advantage” and hit the Labor Day sales early. Neither Penny nor I need much right now so we do a lot of looking and only some buying. I personally have a general rule to pay no more than $10 for shirts or pants. Retirement has left me with a surplus of dress clothes (anyone need any ties?), and the casual and “knock-around” wardrobe is in good shape. The only stuff I’ve been buying is nice soft T-shirts to wear during recovery and to PT and today we bought some button-up short sleeve shirts. They are easier to get on and off with my wounded wings and I didn’t have many of those. We also are looking at driving up to Vermont this year, so we are looking out for useful stuff for the drive and stops along the way.

We did our normal Friday morning visit to Target, and then went out to Beals in Destin. Beals was having a 70% off plus take an additional 40% off that sale. That’s where I got the button up shirts. We lunched at Cracker Barrel and then went out to Silver Sands Outlet Center. Our plan was to hit the Black and Decker outlet, the Gap, and Hank and Dave. To our disappointment when we got to Black and Decker they were on their last day of closing out the store. Everything was 50% off, but since this was week #3 of their closing very little was left. That’s the second store to close out there this year that we actually bought stuff from. The other was a discount bookstore that had inexpensive audio books. Pretty soon we won’t have good reason to go out there. We spent about 5 hours out today and that was about my limit.