And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground. Oh Ruby, for god's sake turn around.

This is a picture of the "gateway of the west" that I found on hubby's cell phone that he had taken while he was on the boat while obviously riding through St. Louis. I sent it from his phone to my email address. Honestly, I wasn't expecting this good of a quality. I am pretty impressed, given that this picture was taken from a moving vessell and at night. I may actually get a camera phone so I can easily take pictures of all kinds of local weirdness in a conveinent fashion. I do not always carry my digicam around and it has quite an appetite for eating batteries, so this is a promising photographic option for the blog.

Hubby is wanting to get me a new cell phone for Christmas. I was leaning towards a blackberry, but I have heard some pretty negative things about them. So, camphone is looking more like a reality. I have never really cared about owning a phone capable of taking pictures before, but now that I have seen that the picture quality is not absolutely horrible, I am somewhat intrigued.

This weekend I was blown away by small town charm. I volunteered to take one of my mother-in-law's neighbor's teenage children to a church in a nearby town. After I got her to her destination, I decided I might would like to see what else this town had to offer by locating a grocery store to purchase some dried fruit. I followed an arrow pointing out the route "To Greenwood Business District". I thought that sounded promising since I was wanting to do just that, conduct business. The route took me straight up downtown along some bumpy brick streets. As picturesque as all that was I was pretty helpless in the supermarket department.

I did manage to find a couple of supermarkets across one across the street from the either, Sav-A-Lot and Piggly-Wiggly. Given my experience at my local Sav-A-Lot, I opted for the Piggy Wiggy which was located at the fabulous "Greenwood Mall" which was really nothing more than this grocery store and an adjacent JC Penney in the same building. There was no indoor foyer featuring a neighborhood of stores like what I picture at a regular mall. Nor do I picture a supermarket at the mall, but at this point I didn't really care. After perusing the ailses of this tiny grocery store, I managed to find some "dried fruits", which turned out to be baggy of prunes and headed to the checkout. Upon adding up my purchase, the cashier asked me if I collected coupons. I told her sure thinking I was to recieve a coupon book of in-store savings. The cashier proceded in dialing up some GREEN STAMPS on some ancient box thingy and gave them to me along with my receipt! Christ, I haven't seen green stamps in about 20 years! I never knew anywhere could be so behind the times. There was no savings card program, which I think those are a bit facsist anyway, but GREEN STAMPS! I believe that this Piggly Wiggly just might be speaking the ancient language of my grandmother.