What's life without cookies?

Early-bird shoppers got warm, ooey-gooey, fresh-from-the-oven oatmeal raisin cookies with their Kool-Aid or lemonade, when they shopped Tuesday morning with six-year-old Isaiah Jacob, foreground, and 9-year-old Riley Lytle, who set up their stand in the 500 block of West First in McCook, Nebraska. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette)