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A day off line
Jul. 23rd, 2020 06:45 pmWell, not quite a full day. But I didn't log into my computer until after we got back from our walk to the mailbox and Parthia Park, late this afternoon. It was kind of nice to spend most of the day in the real world for a change, especially these days.
Now that we're only doing groceries every two weeks, the thing that we find ourselves missing the most is fresh fruits and veggies. Our next foray into supermarket-land is scheduled for Monday of next week. But fortunately with summer now upon us, we have readier access to fresh produce from outdoor markets too. As a result, we rather neglected some supermarket bananas in favour of our 100-kilometre diet. But I digress.
Parkdale Market is now open Thursdays through Sundays, with Thursday mornings usually being fairly quiet. So this morning, off we went. We snagged some of the early corn of the season which we decided would do just fine for lunch. We also found baskets of Niagara peaches and bought one of those too. Then there were the strawberries and the blueberries and some tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. We definitely managed to reap a lot of things we hadn't ourselves sown (well, we do have tomatoes in the back yard but they aren't ripe yet).
Dianora had to mail something - to the U.S. - and since we didn't have the right denomination of stamp for it, that also meant a trip to the post office. Now, our closest post office is inside our local Shoppers Drug Mart, and they also stock a few basic grocery items, including whipping cream, which just happened to be on special.
So once we got home and got everything organized, I went on a bit of a baking spree. I baked Betty Crocker's one-egg cake to go with the strawberries. Then I baked the overripe bananas into a batch of muffins. I think we'll be able to get through the peaches just on their own. The blueberries? Maybe a pie or maybe more muffins.
We had lunch and I read the paper and did my puzzles, although the newspaper is certainly not very substantial these days - usually only two sections and a lot of it taken up by full-page ads by charities or lobby groups.
So now I'm kind of caught up with e-mail and am getting around to this.
Life has a different pace to it these days but I try to do stuff that differentiates one day from another and weekdays from weekends. And the weekend is nearly here.
Now that we're only doing groceries every two weeks, the thing that we find ourselves missing the most is fresh fruits and veggies. Our next foray into supermarket-land is scheduled for Monday of next week. But fortunately with summer now upon us, we have readier access to fresh produce from outdoor markets too. As a result, we rather neglected some supermarket bananas in favour of our 100-kilometre diet. But I digress.
Parkdale Market is now open Thursdays through Sundays, with Thursday mornings usually being fairly quiet. So this morning, off we went. We snagged some of the early corn of the season which we decided would do just fine for lunch. We also found baskets of Niagara peaches and bought one of those too. Then there were the strawberries and the blueberries and some tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. We definitely managed to reap a lot of things we hadn't ourselves sown (well, we do have tomatoes in the back yard but they aren't ripe yet).
Dianora had to mail something - to the U.S. - and since we didn't have the right denomination of stamp for it, that also meant a trip to the post office. Now, our closest post office is inside our local Shoppers Drug Mart, and they also stock a few basic grocery items, including whipping cream, which just happened to be on special.
So once we got home and got everything organized, I went on a bit of a baking spree. I baked Betty Crocker's one-egg cake to go with the strawberries. Then I baked the overripe bananas into a batch of muffins. I think we'll be able to get through the peaches just on their own. The blueberries? Maybe a pie or maybe more muffins.
We had lunch and I read the paper and did my puzzles, although the newspaper is certainly not very substantial these days - usually only two sections and a lot of it taken up by full-page ads by charities or lobby groups.
So now I'm kind of caught up with e-mail and am getting around to this.
Life has a different pace to it these days but I try to do stuff that differentiates one day from another and weekdays from weekends. And the weekend is nearly here.
