The plan
today was to go to one of the local wineries.
But that didn’t work out as the weather was either light rain or
threatening light rain all day. In
between showers we did get out to pick up some produce at the grocery, get a
prescription filled and pick up our mail.
The local
grocery stores are Hy Vee stores. I
understand they are employee owned.
These stores are really impressive, they have a lot of people working
and everything is displayed beautifully.
People are always asking if you have found what you need and they are so
clean they just sparkle. We went in for
just a few things today, but walked around for a while admiring the store.
Had a good
prescription refill at Walgreens again today.
Their prescription savings card is a good deal too. It doesn’t cost anything, but if you don’t
have a prescription drug plan it can save you a lot of money. The health insurance plan we chose for me for
this year until I can go on Medicare doesn’t have a prescription plan, but with
the Walgreens card I don’t really see any difference in cost from when I did
have a prescription plan.
We’ve
noticed a couple of things that are different in South Dakota (vs. Indiana)
that make us even more convinced we don’t want to be here in winter. There are arms (like railroad crossing arms)
that come down across the highways to close them when there is bad
weather. The fire hydrants have about a
four foot high red bar attached to them so they can find them in the snow.
One thing
that is a puzzle to me – unleaded gasoline is $3.67 a gallon, super unleaded is
$.30 a gallon cheaper at $3.37. Isn’t
the super stuff usually more expensive?
I originally thought somebody made a mistake on the sign, but it’s
advertised all over town like that.
We met with
an attorney yesterday to get some advice on whether or not the wills we had
drawn up in Indiana needed to be replaced with wills drawn up in South Dakota. Basically, he said that unless we had a huge
estate and there was going to be fighting about who got what, the Indiana wills
were fine. Since we plan on having a
good time and spending any inheritance we decided to stick with the Indiana
wills. I was surprised that when we got
ready to leave he told us we didn’t owe him anything for his time – he said he
didn’t do anything. We talked with him
for a good while and he answered a lot of questions for us. This wasn’t a little storefront office, he
was with a large law firm.
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