2 X 2 and a Question

I've been traveling and having summer-style fun over the last several days. I was in the Myrtle Beach area for our informal annual family reunion where my husband's grandfather and grandmother, 92 and 90 respectively (and married almost 70 years!), preside over a gaggle of aunts and cousins and nieces and nephews. Not much writing happened, my toes and pocket linings found sand, and my reading was of an unambitious nature. Which only means that I learned stuff accidentally, which is almost my favorite way.

The last 2 sentences I wrote before giving up entirely:
She didn’t argue this time, just craned her head to see the phone on the floor. “Four-fifteen.”

Among those I read:
"Oh yeah. We sold the bull semen, but we've still got the plastic corn and acorns and honeycomb and five cartons of earthworms, and there's a package I don't know what's in it but it wants out BAD..."
- from the very entertaining, satirical, and provocative Fallen Angels by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Please feel free to share 2 sentences (of any type) that you read and wrote this week, either in the comments or let us know where to link. The image above is from the Pawleys Island Bi-Lo. If you know what a New Age Beverage is, please also share that with the class. And no, all the bottles were not made of vibration-resonant crystals. I checked that first.

Update: Travis Erwin posts his 2 x 2 s with greasy eggs and bullets.
PreTzel's Place posts bears, skunks, and abdominal pains. Oh my!