Hmm, What To Do Today?

It's Black Friday.  I'm not much of a shopper, but I make jokes about going to the mall to get away from it all~~all being 4000 acres of nature preserve.  We get maybe a hundred cars on our road each day, and if it weren't for the airport that's only 4 miles from here, it would be really, really quiet and wonderful all the time.  Sometimes, I do have to get away from it all. 

Today might be the day. 

There's a locally owned department type store near here~~The Anderson's.  Several members of the family are good friends of ours, and every single one of them are super-duper folks.  Naturalists, artists, gear heads, all sorts of great and talented people.  And people of faith, too.  They run their businesses they way they run their families, with love, guidance, compassion, and with a terrific work ethic.  So I shop there with no guilt about supporting a huge multi-national conglomerate. 


I do think I'll get away from it all for a while.  Good thing they don't have a quilt shop....... but you should see their everything-else!

Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday~~a really great idea..... with a kicker.  The kicker is that American Express, one of those huge Wall Street multinational conglomerates is sort of behind it.  So if you're going out tomorrow to support your local small business, take cash.  Way better for the small business!