Harvest Sidewalk Sale

At 9:00 am this morning, downtown Chico was starting their Harvest Sidewalk Sale to usher in the fall season. The timing was perfect since we were already down there for farmers market. The more we wandered, the more stores started bringing stuff out. I think 9:00 am was a bit early for some of them and it'll be better later in the afternoon.
Checking out the super cute stuff in "Made in Chico". I forgot how much cool stuff they have. I should have shopped there for all the baby showers I went to this last year. Curses! However (Mom), they do have lots of delicious eats there that the Canadian was drooling over such as a three piece set of Sierra Nevada mustards and lots of jarred olives to go with the sausage that he kept talking about.
Outside of Made in Chico they had a basket full of little baby Halloween hats. There were pumpkin hats and black cat hats. For only $4 I was so tempted to buy one for a co-worker who just had a little girl (Ceci) in July. But I didn't. Some friend I am.
Here I am at Artifax apparently imitating a blind person and shopping by sense of touch. It was a gold half length jacket that had short puffy sleeves and a one button closure. I liked it of course since Chris did not. But how can you argue with a man who wears plaid on plaid?

The moral of the story is that I didn't buy anything because I have become a cheapskate like my Canadian husband and have moved away from spending money on frivolous things unless it's related to scrapbooking. Then the sky's the limit.

Oh! I have come up with two items on my Christmas list. S is for Silence (paperback only) by Sue Grafton and B sides & Rarities CD by Cake. Funny (not really) story about Cake. I love them and would sell both my sisters to see them in concert. It just so happens that yesterday while at S&S Produce I picked up a News & Review only to see a cover article about Cake having a concert in Oroville. Oroville?? Turns out they're doing a benefit concert tonight in Oroville for fire victims. The article talked about where you could get tickets, but when I made the phone calls and got online everybody was sold out. I also happened to be talking to Sarah yesterday and made mention of the concert. She said, oh yeah we're going, you should get a ticket too. Ha ha ha, too late, I said, they're already sold out. Then she replied that she forgot how much I liked them. Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! I hate you Cake, I hate you so much. No, wait. I hate you college kids who bought all my tickets, I hate you so much!! So, today's plan? Sit around and pout. Maybe cry a little, too. If you could see me right now, my nostrils are flared and I'm biting my lips. You know what that means....