Grocery Day!

 Yesterday was grocery day.  For most people (and we use to be like most people) getting groceries is an hour trip or perhaps even an after work quick run in, pick up and run home.  Not so anymore for us.  First we pack our coolers, plastic bins and grocery bags AND don't forget the grocery list!  We left right after lunch yesterday and drove for 1 1/2 hours to the nearest grocery store.  The drive was still pretty with lots of different shades of green and yellow along the way.  It is interesting seeing the pine trees turn yellow.

We arrived in Flin Flon, Manitoba and made our first stop at the coffee shop.  Coffee to keep Ron awake and a blueberry steamed tea to keep me warm.  Oh, so tasty!  Flin Flon has a Walmart, 2 grocery stores, a Canadian Tire and a Home Hardware and a downtown with a variety of different stores but sadly, no Tim Horton's.

Flin Flon (pop. 5,592 in 2011 census; 5,363 in Manitoba and 229 in Saskatchewan) is a Canadian mining city, named after a science fiction literary character, located on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city located within Manitoba.

Taken from Wikipedia



Flowers of the provinces and territories.  This
would have been helpful for the Amazing Race
Canada finalists.

Canadian Shield Geography

After loading up with groceries from Walmart, Coop and the Bulk Store plus a trip to the Post Office we started on our way home.  Flin Flon is a community that has a Saskatchewan and Manitoba side and we have never been able to tell when we cross the border.  We know that when we hit Creighton we are definitely in Saskatchewan.  It is another community that runs very close to Flin Flon.

We arrived back home around 7:30 p.m.  Groceries were put away and a new list is started for our next grocery day which could be as soon as next week.  The winter time may slow our groceries down depending on the weather so I will be a little squirrel now and store things away.