Today, we did the Loblaws run again. Not quite like the Kessels run in so many parsecs but an adventure nonetheless.

I think it was more successful than last time, partly because I had done it before too. I planned the route to walk over and back to avoid ALL the salt they use at the transit station. We headed toward Algonquin and crossed the main drag (Woodroffe) where the transit station and Algonquin “meet” so we could walk down the sidewalk on the east side of the street. It doesn’t have the salt on it and there isn’t much foot traffic either.

Rockwell remembered where we had turned in to the college the only other time he has been out there! When we got to that junction in the sidewalk, he turned right because that’s what we had done before. I explained that we weren’t going there today and he agreed to come along with me.

Once we got to the store, I put his jacket on and in we went. There weren’t very many people in the store so I was able to make my way slowly around the place without holding impatient shoppers up. I stopped and had a couple of short conversations with other shoppers who were interested in Rockwell - he is so cute that people just stop and smile at him involuntarily.

At the express checkout (only 9 items this time), Rockwell enthusiastically greeted the cashier in the adjoining lane when he was suddenly presented with this bonus person to jump on. The man was very nice about it too. In the kerfuffle, I forgot for the second time to use the coupon for butter that I had clipped. I have my limitations too.

Took his jacket off at the door on the way out and let him be petted by two small children. Then it was home again, home again, jiggedy jig.