Today's Adventure

This morning I was to have delivered my piece to be hung in a show in the gallery in Selkirk.  Our normal route is to drive North on Hwy. 59, and then cross the river at the old, former lift bridge, right in downtown Selkirk.  This is the route I used for the two years I worked out there, and we know how much time it takes, almost to the minute.  Well, we got North of Hwy 44 and there was a sign, telling us that the road to that bridge was closed. Our options were to turn around and head back to Lockport, or drive a little way North to Hwy 4, where there is a huge bridge affectionately called " The Bridge to Nowhere", because that's basically what it is.  We chose option #2.  When we turned onto Hwy 4, what do we see before us but a house slowly moving down the road ahead of us with a few vehicles backed up behind it.  And we're in a bit of a time crunch.  So we followed the house to the base of the bridge, where he pulled off the road  bit to let the backed up traffic pass.  We were the last car to get through before they closed off the bridge, both ways, to allow the house to travel over it.  And we made it to the gallery just in time!

Then we went grocery shopping. Again, I bought my pharmacy items separately, and they still cost $135.00.  This has been a real eye opener. Since we don't pay for our drugs this early in the year, as we have healthy deductible, it looks like we're spending that much on supplements and pain killers just about every month.  So, while my new lifestyle has cut our food budget significantly, the money is going elsewhere.

The other difference is in my pantry.  With no longer buying snacks etc, and having got rid of outdated stuff, that is no longer used, the shelves are getting bare.  This has meant that I can bring some of the food-related things upstairs from the basement storage area. This is making managing the food a little more efficient.  So the effects of the new lifestyle are more wide spread that I first thought.