Sidon, AR

I'm embarrassed that I did this.

But if you do embarrassing things from time to time I'm telling this just to make you feel better.

My printer needs a new cartridge. It is still printing but it's having to be shaken every now and then to stir up the ink.

Amazon.com is a great place to order.....so easy....so fast.....so efficient.

So I went there and discovered that I could buy a generic cartridge for just $18.99. Shipping would not be free but ran $8 or $10 and would take about 5 or 7 days to come. That's a lot cheaper than $77 for the REAL brand. That's really what I wanted to do. I would order it and I started the order.

Curiosity got the best of me. They said that if I wanted it really fast I could get it by Mondy, the 7th of June. I wondered what that would cost. I clicked on it and it would cost $33.90!

I'd never pay postage like that! Do they think I'm crazy or something? I shivered and placed the order for the cartridge.

The email came through verifying my order. Complete order was Cartridge $18.99 and postage was $33.90 for a total of $52.89!!

OMG!! What had I done!!! $33.90 for postage!!! I screamed but Amazon didn't hear. I tried to retrack but they were already working on my order. After all, it had to be here on Monday and today is Saturday.

So I decided to just make the best of it. The post office needs my money. I need a printer cartridge. I spent money probably as easily as the government spends money.

I just hope now that the generic cartridge works well! But I'm still SO ANGRY AT MYSELF. grrrrrrr.....

I've made fun of my husband twice on this blog site about his growing tomatoes and using hair and soap to scare the deer away from his plants. He only has 4 plants because he has a full-time golf hobby that disallows gardening.

Well, yesterday, on the 4th of July he was able to harvest 3 tomatoes!

He is one proud farmer!! He says he got the best of those #$%^&*!!#! deer. His goal was to have tomatoes by July 4! Victory!!!

Now I've gotta figure out whether we can eat them or just admire them. I asked him if he'd kept up with the expense of the tomatoes vs. buying someone else's home-grown tomatoes and he just ignored me.

If any of you need to know his secrets just go back and read the other two blogs.