I Like Thursday #101

Welcome to my 101st I Like Thursday post.   Every Thursday there are a handful of bloggers that are encouraged to post fun things they have found during the week that we love. 

I know this week was a tough one for everyone.  I will admit that it has been very tough for me, and my family. While my daughter and I are working, trying to keep store shelves stocked, we have been working a lot of extra hours.  The anxiety is palatable and working at a grocery store has been tough, people are afraid, and angry and we get the brunt of it at times.  We have tried to keep positive, to work harder and longer hours to make sure that everything is stocked as fast as we can, and try to be sympathetic and understanding. 

On my days off I have normally social distance---I like to call it hermitting, but I had to go out to pick up a vaccine for the boy kitten.  He needs his 2nd dose of distemper, and I could pick it up at Tractor Supply.  I also met one of the elder ladies from church to see if I can figure out what is wrong with her sewing machine.  Who would have thought that Tractor Supply would have so many cool things?!?!

As I walked through the door I spied this cool glider.

Not only was the glider cool, but check out the pillow with the Ohio Star quilt pattern. 

I went around the corner and spotted this giant metal rooster.  

With some little metal chicks behind it. 

I went down the aisle further and saw these rooster yard lights, the ones you put along your flower beds. 

I looked up an there were these awesome big yard lights with a welcome sign.

The lights were solar. 

The shelves behind held a huge light up chicken.

A super cute piggy planter.

Some tiny metal chicks.

I was good, well pretty good.  I had to buy this cast iron pig for my daughter.

I Like that the weather is getting a wee bit warmer.  The girl kitten likes to hang out by the back door.

She is such a pretty girl.

I Like Atlas Obscura this one shows 8,986 places of interest in Northern America.  It is interactive and there are some awesome things to see.

8986 Places

Finally I had 2 books this week that I enjoyed. 

Stipulations and Complications by Becki Willis.  This is book 3 in The Sisters Texas series.  Did you know there is a whole genre of literature called widow lit?  Madison Reynolds has returned to her hometown, after losing her husband and home.  She opens up a temp agency working doing odd jobs to make ends meet.  In this installment she is in the middle of a remodel of The Big House (A historic mansion) with the help of a HGTV type show called Home Again. A skeleton is found in the cellar in a secret room.....and that is just the start. 

My 2nd book I read this week was Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger.   This is the 16th installment of the Cork O'Connor series.

A weird short phone call from his step son Peter, to Cork's new wife Rainy Bissonnette and they are heading out of Minnesota, south to Coronado County Arizona near the Mexican border looking for Rainy's son. 

Now head over to LeeAnna's at Not Afraid of Color and check out the other I Like Thursday posts.