A little more of This & That.....

Today, while watching the neighborhood crows flying by my 16th floor window, and a couple of seagulls cruising around looking hungry, I got a piece of bread from the kitchen and held it out the window to see if anyone was paying attention. In only a moment, there was a seagull right there, hovering near my outstretched arm with the bread. It didn't quite get up the nerve to come that last couple of feet but it was very near. It seemed to sense that I meant it no harm, so I laid the bread on the window ledge outside and closed the drapes for a few minutes, so the interior with the lights and computer screen wouldn't spook the birds. The bread was gone within a minute.

Later, shopping at Safeway, I was looking for their Chunky Cheese Bread because theirs is usually made better than their competition down the street. There was no sign of it, so I asked the gal behind the bakery counter when they would be baking more of it. She said, "We won't - we've stopped making it and the Raisin Bread because there just wasn't enough of it being sold. But if you really want some Chunky Cheese Bread, we can bake you a couple of loaves, but you'd have to ask us to do that." I thanked her for the information and declined her offer to make me some. I figured if it's a special order, it will likely cost more, and it was already quite expensive. So their competition is now the only source of Chunk Cheese Bread, and it isn't as carefully made as the Safeway product was. It usually has a lot of fairly large bubbles in it, and those aren't very nice if you're trying to spread something on it. When you're paying over four bucks a loaf for bread, you expect bread, not holes with bread around them.