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Remembering how to tie my shoes, going back for a do-rag
Ordinarily, riding to the farmers' market on Saturday isn't much news, but my last such trip was on the second of May, a few days before a masked man sliced up my nose. (And two days after that, he sliced a piece off my chin to patch it with.) Last Wednesday, I got leave to resume normal activities, and soon after that I took the potatoes out of my pannier and put them into the vegetable bin. It's getting too warm to keep veggies in the garage anyway. I discovered, once at the market, that when cleaning out the panniers I'd overlooked canned cat food and a poop scoop that I'll someday drop off at the Animal Welfare league. (My next-to-the-last ride had been to AWL; I can leave old towels etc. on their front walk without speaking to anybody.) I put on house pants and my second-best jersey in case I needed to undress into the washing machine. I settled for leaving the jersey on a hook in the garage to keep it from snuggling up to the clothes in the closet. The house pants are in the laundry room, but that's because I spilled soup on them at suppertime. I'd put on sunscreen when first arising, in the hope that it would be dried enough that it wouldn't prevent band-aids from sticking when it was time to leave. I can wear a mask or a niqab when carrying out the garbage, walking to church, or riding the flatfoot, but I have to wear bandages when I ride the Fuji. Special clothing *does* inhibit riding! During the ban, I'd retrofitted my new cycling sandals for summer wear by adding thick insoles. I put them on, reflecting that, unlike my walking/driving sandals, I didn't need to worry about my heel slipping off the back. I remembered that cycling sandals have to be tied assymetrically, then looked at them baffled. The outside laces were so long that I was more likely than not to step on them. Then I remembered that I tie *these* sandals symmetrically, shorten the free ends by lengthening the loops, then tie the loops together in an overhand knot that makes the bow knot into a short Macramé chain. The seasons had changed during my confinement; I picked up my helmet, then went back into the house to dig a do-rag out of winter storage. I'd still been wearing scarves when strenuous activity was banned. I should have hunted out summer gloves too, but I wore the plastic ones, then dropped them into the laundry on my return. I didn't hunt out summer gloves until evening. I find that I have a nice new pair and a shabby mended pair. At last, ready to go . . . Umm, I can dent my front tire with my thumb. The back tire felt hard, but was down to around forty pounds. Legs aren't the only body part that goes soft during a layoff. It took a *lot* of very hard pushes to inflate those tires. Hurt a bit, but I didn't notice being sore while riding, and my arms don't hurt any more than usual now. After all this, (and a cooked breakfast), I still managed to get to the market over an hour before time for them to close. Forgot to note various times in my notebook. Started to write down the departure time, looked up the date, wrote it down, put the notebook back into my pocket. I did write the time I left the market, after buying some daikon that tastes like wasabi. On the way back, I stopped at the outdoor plant display at Sherman & Lin's. They didn't have any herbs I don't already have execept for tarragon, and I don't *like* tarragon. Which is just as well, because you have to go in to pay, and someone who keeps a bag packed with books, a water bottle, food bars, and other things that might be needed when parked in front of the emergency room does *not* go inside stores. Sent unedited. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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