Living in Mayberry by the Sea, we don't have the luxury of home mail delivery. Mail is delivered to our local post office, where the residents all have po boxes. It actually is kind of cool - the post office becomes a bit of a meeting place, everyone knows the postal workers, and local announcements for lost dogs and upcoming community events are posted there.

Because I hate to go to the mall, I do most of my shopping online, and consequently, am always at the counter to pick up the package that inevitably won't fit into my box. Today, I had 3 packages to pick up:

1. First up, I received a tin of wonderful pecans (including pralines!) from Maggie at Maggie Reads. I have been participating in Maggie's Southern Reading Challenge, and she has been kind enough to hold a weekly drawing for some yummy Southern pecans. I was lucky enough to win, and can only add, thanks, Maggie!

2. Second up, three bras from Nordstrom. Shopping for bras is right up there with bathing suit shopping. Nevertheless, my lingerie wardrobe is at a point that if I was tragically hit by a car while walking alone on a dark road, the medical examiner would tag me as "homeless" when he took a look at my bra. So, I pulled off this skanky garment to use as a reference, and let my fingers do the walking on Nordstrom.com. The result - 3 of these bras - at $52 a piece. It could only be worse if they charged by the breast.

3. Lastly, was a free gift from Real Simple magazine. Let me say that this is a great magazine for any woman with a busy life. The unexpected gift is a notebook with plastic page holders so that readers can keep all the great articles, recipes, etc., that they pull out of the magazine in one place. Great idea, but I still haven't put my Belize and Yellowstone vacation photos into the already purchased albums.

And in one more reminder of why dogfighting and those who engage in it are despicable, the 53 pit bulls confiscated from Michael Vick's property will likely soon all be euthanized. Having been trained to fight, mistreated and abused, they are not candidates for adoption.