Yes, best wishes to you.
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Thank you, @kare, @pavlova, and @DrJohn.
I will keep my DMs open while I’m taking a break from posting. I might keep posting my coffees elsewhere online. 
I am okay. 
I hope you’re all doing well, too.
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Farmers Boy is about 30 minute drive from me so I seldom go but a few weeks ago I was in the area and did some shopping. I must say that the fruits and veggies I bought stayed fresh for a long time. Wish there was one closer.
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This was at my local indie grocery store today.
$9.49 CAD for the larger jar of Hellman’s.
I was waiting until it was on sale at chain grocery stores most of last year.
Question of whether there will be tariffs on mexican imports came up on CBC yesterday. Answer technically no because they are just travelling thru. Any bets that will be broken as the free trade agreement.
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I went to Koreatown yesterday, where 2 of the nicer greengrocers are located 2 blocks apart.
Gold Leaf at Bloor and Palmerston has started pre-bagging their plums and nectarines. I am guessing this is to stop people from squeezing the stone fruits, as well as to stop shoplifting, and maybe to force people to buy 4 at a time.
Gold Leaf was charging $3.99/lb for both. Gold Leaf takes credit cards as well as cash and debit. Gold Leaf charges a $0.50 fee to use either credit or debit.
Bloor Fruit Market, 2 blocks west of Gold Leaf, only takes cash or debit. No fee for the debit. Bloor Fruit Market was much busier yesterday morning. Maybe they’re charging less for quite a few different fruits and vegetables.
The plums and nectarines are still loose, as they are at my other go to green grocer on College St. Plums and nectarines were $2.99/lb at Bloor Fruit Market.
I hadn’t noticed price differences between the 2 greengrocers before.
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I stopped by Peavey Mart today, to buy some gardening clothes.
They’re going out of business across Canada, and items are marked down 25 to 60 percent.
I bought a Hamilton Beach toaster for around $30 from $56.
There are some neat things on sale: dehydrators, jerky making sets, fermenting sets. Lot of stuff for canning. Mason jars, utensils. Waffle irons. Coffee makers. I have my eye on a Cuisinart electric kettle.
Some Company’s Coming cookbooks.
They also have a bit of food, like pepperoni sticks, near the cash.
They have grow kits on sale , to start vegetable seedlings inside.
They also have lots of work clothes, rubber boots, Kodiak boots, and made-in- Canada moccasins. I picked up some flannel shirts. Carhartt work pants and t shirts for really reasonable prices.
Much of the footwear and clothing is only 25 percent off, but there are still plenty of sizes at the London location I visited. I would think some locations are less picked over the others. I might stop by the Woodstock or Stratford locations next weekend.
So impressed by my metro. Everything is clearly labelled Saved me so much time shopping.
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