moral of the day: buy local

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Cyn and I went flower shopping today. We went up to my favorite local garden center (Countryside Floral) and I got a white bleeding heart, a purple spiderwort and some purple petunias. After we got back and had put some of them in, I decided I needed some soil to fill in where I wanted to put the spiderwort. Instead of going back to Countryside I went to Shopko, because I figured the dirt would be cheap, and they'd have a different selection of flowers to look through. It turned out the flowers were in pretty bad shape (worse than usual). So I picked up the bag of topsoil and realized I didn't have any money with me. So I put the bag back down and realized it stunk - and now I did too. The bag didn't say it was manure, but it sure smelled like it - and fresh at that. So after I went home to get my money I went to countryside for the soil. It turned out that it was half the price. Not only that, but my money stayed local because I bought from a locally owned store. NOt only that, but my money stayed local, because the topsoil turned out to be made/packaged very near here. I tried going to Shopko, but all they had was shit.