Gracie was just back from the grocery store the other day when she was lamenting how much higher groceries are now than they were a year or two ago.

As she was unpacking the recently purchased items and putting them away she said, “I really got very little to eat, and for sure no eggs that are over $3 a dozen.”

She purchased a package of hamburger meat, swiss cheese, lunch meat, some cheese balls, mouthwash and some mascara.

A small thing of Cheez Whiz costs $5 now while a small box of Minute Rice was $4.28 to name a few items.

The limited food to actually eat went with some deodorant, some 7-Up and a few other things and the bill was still just a couple of bucks over $160.

Inflation is eating us out of house and home, literally.

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On the Monday night football telecast color commentator Troy Aikman was taller than Jason Kelce, who played center for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Of course they both dwarfed Joe Buck, the play-by-play commentator.

When I saw Aikman bigger than Kelce it made me think back to his playing days at Oklahoma running the wishbone.

The Sunday morning after OU played Texas in the Cotton Bowl long-time Dallas Morning News columnist Blackie Sherrod wrote that Aikman running down the field looked like a runaway piano.

A friend of mine appropriately said can you imagine a person that big playing high school football at Henryetta?

Talk about an unfair advantage for the Hens at the time.

Now, of course, they are the Knights.

He’s still a big man.