i was intent on making one of two things this week– strawberry tarts or strawberry lemonade cupcakes; the key ingredient here being strawberries. sunday evening i set off to the grocery store in search of fresh strawberries and pie weights (mine seem to have walked away), to find that the local grocery store was fresh out of berries! i walked over to the produce guy asking if perhaps they were about to put some out and as he was telling me that the shipment hadnt come in, some guy walks past saying “yeah, i got the last carton!” Before pouncing, i stopped to look and noticed that it was not nearly enough strawberries for my needs and decided that no, today is not the day to get arrested for attacking someone in the grocery store.

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