Mom had a birthday yesterday

And we’re threatened unto pain of death lest we mention the number of years she’s celebrating. Think of a number related to pianos.

Anyway, we had a three-bone rib roast, homemade mashed potatoes, leaf spinach, fruit salad, and spice cake for dessert. It was all delicious.

Two questions: First, why is it that I can only find frozen spinach in leaf form in a box? Every one or two-pound bag of spinach in the freezer case contains chopped spinach. Why is that?

My second question: why do grocery stores listen to consultants? The Navy Commissary closed for three days last week to do a store “reset.” What that meant was “flip the contents of all the aisles so what the customers have been finding on 8A, for example, is now on 13B.” What idiot persuaded the Commissary officer that that would be a good thing to do? About the only things that remained in the same place were the meat, dairy and frozen goods sections: too costly to pick up and move all that chilling and frozen equipment, I imagine.