An inquisitive old fart with a camera
“Make your own system.” OK: how about one where clinics and hospitals figure out that germs (or bacteria, or “viruses”) do not cause disease, and drop that disproved hypothesis? And stop generating tons of toxic waste every day out of fear of “germs?” I could go for that.
This is the parking deck (there’s much more parking under the building) at Tienda Inglesa in Atlántida yesterday afternoon. 15 out of 40 or so available parking spaces were blocked off for people showing off their Alfa Romeos, at least one of which might have qualified as antique.
What is the thinking here?
(BTW, today noticed that the foolish plastic “covid” shields have been removed from the cashier aisles in Tienda Inglesa!)
When you have an account with (literally) no friends, Facebook is apparently left grasping at matchmaking straws.
Go ahead – make it add up! (The sum is correct.)
Need a hint?
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Lines 5 & 6….
Not a common occurrence in coastal Uruguay! This was a few days ago. I abruptly stopped shooting in order to turn the glass table on its side, because….
I guess the wind had been blowing from all directions, causing a small piece of grass to trace circles.The first thing I did when I saw this was to shoot my left arm out to prevent the dog Lea from walking on it, as she does whenever she sees me focusing on something, be it pattern, beetle, snake….
OK, here we go: try to make sense of this! Clue: it’s from a produce stand (and is in Spanish, of course).
Answers:
pepino – cucumbers
moron – should be morron: bell pepper
moron R – should be morron: red bell pepper
tomate
banana
naranja (!?!?!?): orange
lechuga: lettuce
I’m always checking out the sky. It seems like a lot of people never even look up. Yesterday afternoon.
Local honey: we live in Atlántida.
Local wine: 33 km (20.5 miles) away as the crow flies.
Almost all our produce, meat, and dairy come from within 200 km (124 miles). No 3,000-mile salads here!
When we arrived in Uruguay in 2009, we started buying the only yogurt that came in glass jars. After a couple years, they switched to plastic, but “nice” plastic – as in, clear and convenient to reuse.
Today I was removing labels and saw for the first time that they actually leave a space for you to label the contents when reusing their container – sweet! (Acá guardo = “Here I keep.”)
Nonetheless, I prefer them the labels removed, which requires only a couple minutes with an old kitchen scouring sponge, some turpentine, and cleaning up with dish detergent.
And yes, we do have a yogurt maker and do occasionally remember to use it 😉