Lizzy Tex Borden's

~ My 2018 Birthday Extravaganza Day Nine! ~

Another beautiful Extravaganza Day. I am far from El Rancho

today. My primary destination for today is REI. But this Best

Buy is in the vicinity and I have a few things in mind, so I

stopped in here. Turns out I will have to keep the things I had

in mind in mind. They did not have anything that I wanted.

On to REI...

The REI store under beautiful Southern California skies. Two

of the ONLY nice things left in California, the sky and the sun.

Well, I had been planning for two months for my visit to REI today.

And wouldn't you know it? They had zero in stock of the items I had

been planning to purchase. Zero. I am starting to feel a little strike-ish

out-ish today. I did get some Lodge scrapers for my new cast iron

pan. I also bought a hot handle holder for the pan. It is not the

one I want, but it will fill in until I can find that one.

Here is something kind of nice.

This is the left side of the REI store.

And if you look across the driveway...

...and through or over the fence...

...there is a pretty big field, or should

I say marsh. Maybe it is a marsh.

Pretty dang big for this area. I took a break here for a while. It was

surprisingly quiet. And there was a big old bullfrog just croaking

away. It was really pleasant.

Onward. Two more stops.

I went into Walmart to look around. This Walmart is FAR from The Ranch

and I am just going to see if they have anything fun that the Walmart in my

area doesn't. As it turns out, not really. But hey, they have knives and I am

going to buy one that I have had my eyes on for a number of years that I

never would fork over the dinero for, but what the hay, it's my

Birthday Extravaganza Week.

I bought a CRKT (Columbia River Knife and Tool) knife. It is called the

S.P.E.W. Is that a terrible name for a knife or what? Anyway, the name

stands for Small Pocket Everyday Wharncliffe. Wharncliffe is the blade

shape and I have to tell you, that is a new one on me. I had never ever heard

Wharncliffe before. But then again, I have never ever had a Wharncliffe blade

style before. I am going to have fun with this neck/belt knife.

Jerry Brown is an idiot.

I also bought this movie that I can't WAIT to see. "Mother". Polarizing

movie. It stars Jennifer Lawrence and Gosh save me, I really like her. This

movie is supposed to be weird. It was directed by Darren Aronofsky of

"Black Swan" fame. I like him AND Black Swan. So we will see.

Holy cow the sun is going down and I

still have another stop to make!!!

Huzzah!!!!

!!!! More to come !!!!!