Apple: Honeycrisp

I bought two locally grown honeycrisp apples at the farmers market on Monday, and just ate one.

I liked it: large, sweet, juicy, and yes crisp, with a good though not intense apple flavor. It's a good eating apple, though I suspect it wouldn't be great for baking. I'm a little skeptical about it as a cider apple; I've seen "100% Honeycrisp" labels on half gallons of apple cider, here as well as in Washington.

I'd had a Washington-grown Honeycrisp apple when we were living in Bellevue and been disappointed. That was when I was trying varieties I hadn't tasted here in the Northeast, some (like Pacific Rose) that I hadn't heard of until I moved to Washington, before I realized that Washington apples are all bland, because of either the soil, the climate, or both.

(This post is mostly for my own reference. It may also help you calibrate my apple reviews, since a lot of people have tried Honeycrisps.)

my prescriptions are supposed to be on auto-refill

They've been on auto-refill for ages, and I thought they still were. Which means I almost ran out of the gabapentin, because I thought I had an unopened bottle of pills. Instead, I had one pill in the bottle on my dresser, and one day's supply in my daypack.

What I think happened is that CVS offered to reschedule my pill refills so both prescriptions would be ready on the same day, and instead just stopped refilling these automatically. So, OK, I have put in a refill over the phone, which I should be able to get tomorrow morning. I am then going to tell them to put it back on auto-refill while I try to decide whether to take all my prescriptions down the street to Rite Aid.

I can think of one good reason not to, namely that CVS is closer to my doctor's office, which is useful when they're doing things like calling in an antibiotic prescription for pneumonia. Right now I'm filling one prescription at Rite Aid because I prefer the generic they carry to the one CVS does. There's another that my insurance company insists on sending to the CVS mail order pharmacy. And two, including the one I'm grumbling about here, that could equally well go to either. The only thing I'm sure of is that if I do transfer these prescriptions to Rite Aid, I'm going to tell CVS why.

ETA: I filled the prescription today. Apparently gabapentin is sufficiently a controlled substance that it can't be on auto-refill, though not at the level where I have to get separate paper prescriptions for each month's supply. Which in turn means that taking it to a different drugstore wouldn't avoid this problem.