{"id":3646,"date":"2017-10-30T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2017-10-30T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:32:38","slug":"monday-30-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/10\/30\/monday-30-october-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 30 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>09:32 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> It was 26.5F (-3C) when I took Colin out at 0630, our first hard freeze of the season. We didn&#8217;t get the snow flurries, though. Barbara is off to the gym and then the supermarket to replace the milk that aged out while she was away. I offered to make her up some Nestle Nido dry whole milk, but she prefers the fresh stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday afternoon, I ordered six cases of quart Ball jars from Walmart. I was surprised to see FedEx pull up Saturday to deliver three of those cases. I thought it was generally understood that &#8220;free 2-day shipping&#8221; doesn&#8217;t include Saturday delivery other than for items shipped via USPS. The other three cases are to show up tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>October 2017 revenues are running about 15% behind October 2016, but that doesn&#8217;t really matter since 2017 August and September revenues combined ran about 135% of combined 2016 August\/September revenues. Being down 15% in the slower October period is barely a blip overall. The next three or four weeks will also be slow. November revenues are generally very small until Thanksgiving, when Christmas sales start to ramp up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what, if anything, happens starting Saturday the 4th. My guess is not much, but my crystal ball isn&#8217;t any clearer than anyone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:32 &#8211; It was 26.5F (-3C) when I took Colin out at 0630, our first hard freeze of the season. We didn&#8217;t get the snow flurries, though. Barbara is off to the gym and then the supermarket to replace the milk that aged out while she was away. I offered to make her up some Nestle Nido dry whole milk, but she prefers the fresh stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday afternoon, I ordered six cases of quart Ball jars from Walmart.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/10\/30\/monday-30-october-2017\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Monday, 30 October 2017 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,44,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-prepping","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}