Monthly Archives: July 2024

does costco know something?

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 costco’s readywise emergency kit has people worried 

While there’s plenty to love at Costco, like the salad kits, sheet cakes, and mini oreo cheesecakes, it has also been prone to some food controversy in the past, including the massive chocolate chunk cookies that were hurting people’s stomachs. Now Costco is stirring up emotions again with its new monster dinner kits that have customers worried the retailer is warning us the apocalypse may be coming.

Costco recently released the Readywise Emergency Food Supply Bucket, which features 150 servings of various food choices. Costco’s website lists the servings as “80 servings of hearty entrées & sides, 30 servings for nourishing breakfasts, and an additional 40 drink servings.”

For $80, this massive meal kit includes 12 servings each of pasta Alfredo, cheesy macaroni, brown sugar and maple multi-grain, apple cinnamon cereal, and 10 servings of white rice. You’ll also find 6 servings each of teriyaki rice, creamy pasta and vegetables, potato pot pie, tomato basil soup with pasta, chicken noodle soup, and crunchy granola. There are also 16 servings of vanilla pudding and orange drink mix, plus 24 servings of whey milk alternative.

The bucket has a 25-year shelf life thanks to being made with freeze-dried and dehydrated foods. You also only need to add water to eat or drink the items. Costco’s website explains that ease of preparation “isn’t just about simplicity; it’s about maintaining a sense of normalcy when the world around you might feel anything but normal.” Naturally, many wondered what this warehouse retailer was trying to get at.

One Instagram user posted about this latest Costco find, calling it the “Costco Apocalypse Dinner Kit, commenters quickly added their thoughts. One commenter asked, “Does Costco know something?” Someone else added, “If the apocalypse comes, where are you getting fresh water to prepare these dried meals?”

‘in ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ it’s not shaun’s fault that there’s a zombie apocalypse – he just has to get through the day.’ -edgar wright

 

 

source credits: costco, all recipes, carissa chesanek

re-solution.

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 dreamed that i was working on a jigsaw puzzle

happily sorting it out, putting the pieces into place

i love solving puzzles

what a peaceful enterprise

then a section appeared

all white pieces

not sure exactly where to begin with it

 a new challenge

so curious to see how i would solve it

but i woke up too soon.

i looked up dream analysis

about jigsaw puzzles

and the color white

 it made such sense.

solving jigsaws represents

putting the pieces of your life back together,

reorganizing,

perhaps in new ways, after a life change

white represents blank pages, waiting to be written.

what a perfect solution to my retirement puzzle.

‘the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.’

-richard dawkins

tiny terror.

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this is who/what was sitting in the middle seat

as my sister flew home after her visit.

i wouldn’t know what to say/do

but would definitely not fall asleep

glad to hear she made it home

i would have been terrified.

 

‘my name is talky tina, and i don’t think i like you.’

-twilight zone, episode 126, ‘living doll’, rod serling

the lights go down.

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at the verrry cool

elk rapids cinema

old, but mighty good

something magical about an old movie house.

 

‘what’s a bigger mystery box than a movie theater?

you go to the theater, you’re just so excited to see anything –

the moment the lights go down is often the best part.’

j.j. abrams

mischief maker.

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perfect branding.

what could possibly go wrong?

“the opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”

-voltaire

 

 

stoney cabin toyshop, elk rapids, mi, usa

the show at day’s end.

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“the sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”

-pamela hansford johnson

 

 

 

 

 

summer on glen lake, empire/glen arbor, michigan, usa

 

 

to the lake.

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night slowly arrives 

warmly wraps around the lake

color fades away.

“of all the paths you take in life make some lead to the lake.”
– unknown

 

 

on glen lake, empire, michigan, usa – summer 2024

 

 

charley crockett.

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Matthew Charles Crockett (born1984) is an American blues, country, jazz, americana singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He has released twelve studio albums since 2015, with Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Blues Albums chart and The Man from Waco breaking the US Billboard 200

ten years after.

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ten years have passed

since the moment

when my entire 6-pack of grandies

at last

all on the same continent

 met for the very first time

in a large box on my front lawn

as long as i live

i will never forget that moment.

‘cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be.’

 – jm gaffigan

Miss-Fortune?

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at the noodle restaurant

opened my  fortune after dinner

it was thrown away with my plate

can’t quite figure out what it meant

 not sure how to live my life from here on out.

what do you think this fortune means?

‘live for the nights you can’t remember with the people you’ll never forget.’