Lowe's Has No Starbucks Kiosk

Yes, Gina!  There is a Starbucks!

While small towns have a number of positive shopping possibilities including "secret diva shoppes," hometown shop owners, and a local style flavour,  they usually do not have a Starbucks.  But where there are college students, connecting highways,  and trendy hot spots, there you'll find that coffee haven of known civilization.
In addition to a Starbucks, I have found Best Buy, Chico's, Bath and Body Works, Target, and Barnes and Noble (for how long bookstores will remain, is only for we who like to feel the pages to determine.)
My cousin and I "motored to Jonesboro" the other day for some Girl Shopping. ( Lowes Home Improvement does not sell Honeysuckle Pleasures Body Lotion, nor do they offer a "skinny late'" to their shopping customers, in case you thought otherwise .)  One must break free from PVC pipe and Shop Vac Accessories to find other avenues for "shopping." 
The Mall at Turtle Creek is great - both large enough and small enough to meet any shopping need.  Bartlett Connections:  Becky Bowers and Joel Conley and others familiar with Jonesboro can attest to that.  (For you who remember John Cooke, he teaches and has the Band program at Valley View, a suburb in the north area, outside Jonesboro.)  Jonesboro is about 45 minutes south of Rector.
One of the great pleasures for this trip was that the road was "straight" so we did not have to worry about talking too much and missing our exit.  Hwy 49 leads directly to the Mall!  Who Knew!  Also, stores are open on days other than Saturday - again, who knew.  We shopped on ~  Thursday!  We drove home, reheated the Taco Soup (Brenda Pilant's recipe), and prepared for an exciting evening at home. 
I'll share later about the book I am reading.  I did not use the Kindle Fire (thank you again, FL Dept) this time because I checked it out from the Rector Library (Culture knows no boundaries).  Getting a library card was very important to me (old person) so I got 11/22/63 by Stephen King and have just begun it.
 I'll watch the forecast with interest tonight for I hear that S N O W may be in the prediction for Monday.  Maybe we will all have a much needed Snow Day.
A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
Burt Bacharach