Dear Customers,            February is notable for a couple of things.  The first “notable” happened yesterday in Punxsutawney, just down the road a bit.  While it’s sometimes fun to imagine Winter ending sooner rather than later, that woodchuck is about as accurate as anyone else who makes their living trying to predict the weather.  Read…

Dear Customers,             This week marks the end of the first month of winter.  That only leaves two more until spring!  When I was younger and spent the winters skiing (both downhill and cross country), I loved winter and truly, enjoyed every snowfall.  Now, it doesn’t fill me with the same enthusiasm.            One obvious…

Dear Customers,            January is a cold, gray month.  So are the next two!  But we have to survive January, February and March before we get into spring weather, the sound of lawn mowers and the hopeful sight of crocuses poking out of the still moist but gradually warming earth.           Back in December, from…

Dear Customers, By now, the glitz and glamour of the past holiday season has faded into a monotonous reality. Two weeks into the New Year and most of our resolutions have gone the way of resolutions from years past! For every good intention there’s an equal and opposite loss of enthe determined is just how…

Dear Customers,            My older brother, Sam, used to get extremely upset if he had to wait in line.  He also got just as mad if he stopped into the supermarket and witnessed our customers waiting in line.  So much so that he often insisted that we schedule more help than was needed – just…

Dear Customers,            Christmas and New Year’s Day are always exactly a week apart.  Having New Year’s Eve falling on a Tuesday doesn’t really lend itself well to celebrations or parties.  Be that as it may, that’s where the first of the new year falls in 2025, so even if you can’t over-indulge at a…

Dear Customers,             As we did at Thanksgiving, we are running the same ad for both weeks of Christmas.  These specials will run from Monday, December 16th through and including Sunday, December 29th!  You will be able to take advantage of these special sale prices for a full two-week period.  And if you’re anything like…

Dear Customers,            This was the time of year I absolutely loved as a kid.  The expectations were fast reaching fever pitch.   So much so that I would turn on the lights of the Christmas tree and crawl underneath its branches to be as close as possible to the multi-colored lights, the piney aroma and…

Dear Customers,             I dream almost every night and at my age, that’s to be expected.  What I don’t enjoy is a good nightmare!  My worst ones seem to follow one of two themes; either I’m being chased by something unseen or I’m late for something I can ill afford to miss!           What a…

Dear Customers,            The Pilgrims had plenty to be thankful for on that first Thanksgiving! The’d left their homes and families, traveling more than two months across a turbulent sea to a hostile land.  By the following autumn, having made friends with the local Indian tribes and having suffered a harsh winter, they held what…