Fried-day

[altivo]

Library door count up, noise level up exponentially. We have a big art exhibit from the high school art classes plus this week we had a traveling display of Mexican murals. Teachers trekking elementary school classes through all day to "see the art" though I think they were actually paying no attention to it at all and were just busy shouting back and forth to each other.

No rain again, in spite of predictions. I hope it isn't all being saved up to drown us tomorrow during the bird census.

Thanks to some back and forth chatter between two friends on Twitter, I learned that Amazon had dropped the price of a large plush lion I wanted until it barely qualified for free shipping. Get! Apparently Amazon's prices for plush fluctuate up and down like commodity items, with multiple changes during the same day on occasion. Who knew? (Not me.)

We went out for supper and grocery shopping this evening, since I won't be able to shop tomorrow due to the bird thing. While unloading groceries I heard a lot of dogs barking and a fox screaming somewhere across the road. I hope the fox didn't get hurt. She probably has kits somewhere. Gary came back from closing the barns to report a new large excavation under the corner where the tack room is walled off. I suspect the two go together.

Oh, and I saw a low-flying sandhill crane on my way home from work. Now to go study too many warblers before sleeping. Have to be up and on the road right after sunrise.

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[merik]

Apparently Amazon's prices for plush fluctuate up and down like commodity items, with multiple changes during the same day on occasion.

I checked the lion's price (direct from Amazon with free shipping) again last night before I went to bed, just for fun. It had gone from $29.36, when I got mine in the afternoon, to $29.99 at around 11:30 PM EDT. And now? Back down to $29.91...

[altivo]

I ordered about an hour after you did, I think. Let's see who gets theirs first. XD

[merik]

*chuckle* The pair I ordered have made it safely to Buffalo and are scheduled to come back this way tonight for delivery tomorrow. So I think they might be winning the race. I'm curious about where your lion is starting his voyage. Most of the big plush I've ordered from Amazon over the years, including the lions, have started their trip from a suburb of Harrisburg, PA. But a few have come from Indianapolis, and a couple have started from Las Vegas.

The price of the lion keeps creeping back up, now at $30.37 direct from Amazon with free shipping.

[altivo]

Yeah, I think you've won. They haven't even shipped mine yet. Probably complicated by the fact that I added a second $8 item to the same order in order to take advantage of the free shipping. Both were "in stock" but probably at separate locations, and they will move one first before shipping to me to put them both in one box. Amazon's shipping options are difficult to understand, at least in my opinion. But it seems that if you choose the free shipping then you have to let them hold the entire order for shipment at once if they choose to do so.

The okapi last week was sent via Ensenda rather than UPS or USPS. It originated in Lexington, Ky. and took 28 hours door to door. Amazon took several days from the time or order to the time of actual dispatch, though.

[schnee]

Teachers trekking elementary school classes through all day to "see the art" though I think they were actually paying no attention to it at all and were just busy shouting back and forth to each other.

Kids will be kids — unless by "they", you mean the teachers.

[altivo]

The teachers are as bad as the kids.

When I was in school, a trip to the library was accompanied by severe penalties for making noise or running inside the building. Some still did it of course.