A small day out
May. 2nd, 2021 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellYesterday morning I got on the bus and went to the Beaverton farmers' market, as I haven't done in over a year.
Bus capacity has been reduced to half, with a checkboard of seats marked off to not sit in. With a few of the top windows open, air circulated nicely while the bus was moving. Stickers asking people to leave them open for ventilation alternate with the older ones stating "Air conditioning works best with windows closed." There are a box or two of disposable masks up at the front of each bus in case anyone needs one, and in some of them paper towel dispensers have been replaced by hand sanitizer dispensers.
At the market, most of the old familiar booths are still there, though some of them have moved around. In particular, Zoe Ann was back with her cheesecakes. The one thing I definitely wanted to get was a celebratory single-serving cheesecake, so I got a Meyer lemon and lime one to eat later in the day. It was, as they all are, excellent.
Berry season hasn't started yet. The main produce available right now is radishes, which I don't know what to do with, and rhubarb, which I've only ever try using for a strawberry and rhubarb pie, and did I mention berry season hasn't started yet?
I then biked over to downtown Beaverton's food cart pod, at which point I realized I had mistimed my trip. I'd way overestimated how long it would take me to get to the market and wander through it, so I arrived at the pod before 10, when hardly anything was going to be open for a while. Rather than just sit around on a chilly morning, I made a note to try this again next week at a later hour.
Anyway, I did accomplish my main goal, which was to get out there and start getting used to being around larger numbers of people without freaking out about it.
Bus capacity has been reduced to half, with a checkboard of seats marked off to not sit in. With a few of the top windows open, air circulated nicely while the bus was moving. Stickers asking people to leave them open for ventilation alternate with the older ones stating "Air conditioning works best with windows closed." There are a box or two of disposable masks up at the front of each bus in case anyone needs one, and in some of them paper towel dispensers have been replaced by hand sanitizer dispensers.
At the market, most of the old familiar booths are still there, though some of them have moved around. In particular, Zoe Ann was back with her cheesecakes. The one thing I definitely wanted to get was a celebratory single-serving cheesecake, so I got a Meyer lemon and lime one to eat later in the day. It was, as they all are, excellent.
Berry season hasn't started yet. The main produce available right now is radishes, which I don't know what to do with, and rhubarb, which I've only ever try using for a strawberry and rhubarb pie, and did I mention berry season hasn't started yet?
I then biked over to downtown Beaverton's food cart pod, at which point I realized I had mistimed my trip. I'd way overestimated how long it would take me to get to the market and wander through it, so I arrived at the pod before 10, when hardly anything was going to be open for a while. Rather than just sit around on a chilly morning, I made a note to try this again next week at a later hour.
Anyway, I did accomplish my main goal, which was to get out there and start getting used to being around larger numbers of people without freaking out about it.
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Date: 2021-05-03 03:44 am (UTC)