We made a completely unfulfilling shopping trip today, finding nothing that we wanted. Peggy and I popped into Costco to see if we could get her a decent raincoat but the item she had identified on the internet as being THE ONE wasn’t anywhere to be found. I also made a trip into a Harbor Freight and didn’t find what I needed. Strikeouts on shopping today.
Not to be overcome with disappointment, we spent a bit of time driving around the Arcata and Eureka areas. We spotted a few nice houses. We also spotted what seems like an ample supply of homeless people for a town of only some 27,000 residents. It seems that quite possibly the actual population is higher but a bunch of them don’t have addresses other than “in the shrubs behind the muffler shop” or “under the north end of the Eel River bridge” and, therefore, missed out on the latest census. We also spotted a billboard advertising the Emerald Cup which is a contest to see who has the best reefer. Maybe I’ll check that out.
Someone who went to the Emerald Cup can be seen in a picture by clicking here