Cheaper Prices, Less Service????????

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Registered: 11-04-2003
Cheaper Prices, Less Service????????
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Sun, 04-11-2004 - 11:00pm
Do you guys have those grocery stores that have been cropping up recently?
 
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Registered: 01-07-2004
Mon, 04-12-2004 - 1:11pm
Amy,

I think you would enjoy our little gourmet stores down here. Well Central Market, and it has a website, is really neat to wander though. The produce is from everywhere and the different types of other goods are so interesting. Never saw mayo in a tube until I started shopping there.

but then agin being in Texas what do I know....HA HA HA

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Registered: 11-03-2003
Mon, 04-12-2004 - 4:33pm
That's ok, I might enjoy the Central Market. I like little village markets and have shopped in other countries in the open-air markets, it's neat. We plan to move to Arizona in a year or two and if we relocate near enough to Mexico, that should be fun. Tempe is cool, but it's infested with college students. We are looking into possibly Tuscon, maybe Nogales. I went to AZ for a week by myself last year and loved it. I have always felt I'm living in the wrong part of the country. I've lived in New England for 31 years and it's time for a change. The Scottish half of my backround loves it, but the Cherokee part is dying to live in the Southwest. Maybe out there I can get back in to competitive trail riding. I loved the heat, too. Call me crazy, but I spent ALL DAY outside in JULY. Kyle and i are going out in May for his birthday. he has never been there and just wants to move there without visiting first. I am a firm believer in visiting once, twice, even three times to be sure.

PS - I highly recommend vacationing by yourself. It's very spiritual.

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Registered: 01-04-2004
Mon, 04-12-2004 - 4:36pm
Amy,

Do you shop at the Walmart in Littleton? I've gone there a few times with my DH when we've gone on day trips up in that area. Who knows, maybe we've bumped into each other and never knew it LOL! And you're right, I guess you do have to be creative up there. I'm pretty familiar with the area, and I can relate to seeing the cows (although I have to admit, I've never smelled the top of a calf's head!)

~~Linda

~~Linda

 

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Registered: 01-07-2004
Mon, 04-12-2004 - 4:37pm
I love the heat as well, but not that dry heat. Give me about 100 degrees with 100% humidity on a clear day and I am happy. Driven through AZ but that's about it. I hate the cold. I can't even begin to understand how to live in it. It's 54 here, which is unusual, and I am freezing. I miss my 80 something weather.
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Registered: 01-07-2004
Mon, 04-12-2004 - 4:37pm
Goodness Ladies...we have cows right in the middle of Houston.

Ever gone cow tipping?

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Registered: 11-03-2003
Mon, 04-12-2004 - 11:19pm
I DO shop at the Walmart in Littleton !!!! Plymouth is a little closer ( I'm in Woodstock)and they have more food items...but Plymouth Walmart is SCARY. Weird people. Although, if you've been to Littleton WalMart on a Saturday night, they certainly come out of the woodwork, don't they ? And I'm NOT going to pick on Vermonters, New Hampshire people are JUST as weird ! Of course, there IS the whole deal with Killington wanting to become part of NH for tax purposes - what is up with THAT ? LOLOLOLOL!!!!

If you are ever on Main Street in Littleton, on the corner of Maple and Main, there is a two story building where the Italian Oasis is. There is a natural foods store in that building called the Healthy Rhino . It's worth a look !

Wouldn't that be FREAKY if we've actually laid eyes on each other ? Too funny !

Amy ;)

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Registered: 11-03-2003
Mon, 04-12-2004 - 11:34pm
I hatehatehate the cold, too. I can't deal with humidity, though..I am one of those people who breaks into cold sweats because my hypothalamus is a bit off-kilter and i have a hard time regulating my body temp. If it's humid out, my body goes into hyper cool-off mode and I shiver...WEIRD !!! Dr. says that is not harmful, although it's unusual. I could sit on a rock and bake in the sun all day. I'm like a lizard !

I don't even snowboard if it's below 25 degrees - it's just too cold even at the relatively low elevation of the ski area in the next town. I am an avid snowboarder and the weather for the past two winters has been either rainy or too cold, so needless to say I did not go as much as I would have liked.

AZ was really fascinating because it looks like a different PLANET, and you kind of forget it's the other side of the country. The desert has an interesting smell...I can't put my finger on it, but I REALLY noticed it, maybe it's the particular plant species and cactus. But, when people come to NH to visit , they always remark about the pine tree smell and I don't even notice it anymore.

It's been sunny lately but a bit chilly, and we were going to go to the driving range tomorrow and make fools of ourselves ( Kyle, not me. I can golf just fine, thank you. Kyle has a lazy eye, so where the ball is going to end up is always a surprise...) but it's supposed to RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN. Wah.

I went to the local P&C (sounds like a urine drug test, doesn't it ?) and they are just about the nastiest place to buy produce, almost as bad as Wal Mart. I can't wait for the farm stands to open up (so I can smell the baby cowz).

Amy

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 04-13-2004 - 8:39am

I know that there is one near our home but its not a place that I would want to go.

  Shawna-- Proud Cl for 100 Pounds or More to Go 

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Tue, 04-13-2004 - 9:54am
It's 49 here and sunny and I am shivering. I love the humidity. Great for your skin. I haven't been to New England. When I went to PA for July one year I ws cold then so I am not sure I would like it up there.

Texas has a great desert to go through. I love driving out in west Texas and then suddenly go down into a canyon to come right back up again.

You would love our farmer's markets out here. But then again most of the produce out here is Texas grown too.

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Registered: 01-07-2004
Tue, 04-13-2004 - 10:09am
I think it is so interesting how stores differ from each part of the country.

Down here WalMart's produce and meat bite the big one but Sam's is great. We don't have low price stores really either. Main stores down here are HEB, Krogers, Randals, Rice Epicurean, Central Market, and Whole Foods. They tain't cheap to say the least.