Trip to "Town"

July 6 – Even though we were off today we didn’t really sleep in.  I cooked some of the sausage Bill picked up this week at Dave’s Jubilee and cut up some fruit.  He had a toasted bun with his.  It was such good sausage.  I plan to freeze some to take home again.

I did a load of laundry while Bill went to the office and went through a bag of quarters looking for Denver mint ones that I need for my National Parks Quarter Collection.  He found 10-12 that were on my list!  It’s a beautiful day out and not nearly as windy as it’s been.

We left for Rexburg, 60 miles south.  We stopped at the Mormon thrift store and Bill got 2 shirts and 2 books and I got 1 book and a kitchen gadget.  Then we went to Dollar Tree and I checked out the clothing store next door but nothing my “style”.

It was lunchtime so we went to the Great Harvest Bread shop on Main St.  We’ve eaten there before and they have delicious sandwiches on fresh made bread.  They let you sample 2 breads and you can chose from 5-6.  Bill was going to get a sweet roll but we decided we were going to Freddy’s later for frozen custard.

A couple of blocks down the road is Broulim’s grocery.  It’s a great store.  Very high quality and pretty much everything you could want or need – except my wild rice I like!  I checked the ad and got some things and the rest was left for Wal-mart.  Broulim’s is more upscale than our Publix at home.  They have several lunch stations and then an upstairs dining room for guests.

Time for Freddy's!  We went through the drive through and each got a vanilla single scoop dish of frozen custard.  Not quite as good at Culver's but definitely will do in a pinch!

We did stop at Wal-mart as it’s also the last place on the north end of town.  Bill did his

The Three Sister of the Tetons

shopping and I did mine and we headed towards home.  The view of the Tetons was magnificent today.  There still plenty of snow and we could see it most of the way home.  We stopped for me to get a couple of photos.  We are miles and miles from them!

In Ashton is Dave’s Jubilee grocery and Bill had promised Gina and Rick that we would stop and get sodas for the campground.  While he was filling his cart with sodas, I got rhubarb, fresh green beans, Bing cherries and peaches that were on sale and once Bill was ready we stopped at the ice cream case and got a box each of huckleberry ice cream sandwiches and huckleberry ice cream bars.  The challenge was getting them in the freezer!  I need to be using up the items I brought with us as we need to have it empty when we leave to fill with ice cream!  We’re meeting with our camping buddies in October and I want them to get to try huckleberry ice cream!

I put the inside stuff away and Bill put his stuff away and delivered our campground purchases.  Since we were having lunch out I put half of a pork loin roast in the crock pot and we had shredded bbq pork tonight.  We finished off a couple of things in the fridge.  It’s packed as I can’t send him to the store every few days like at home.  So now it’s “eat what we have” and love it!

The evenings are still cool enough to leave the heat to come on at night as needed but the days are getting a bit warmer.

Time to clean my rhubarb and put half in the freezer!  Kam I’ll try to bring you some!