An inquisitive old fart with a camera
Products, services, marketing, names
Thursday is street market day in Atlántida. I traversed its length at the end of an unusually long beach walk with the dog, balm in a stressful week.
Packing the VW Bus with unsold shoes.
Oopa—gotta get that mannequin out of the way.
And of course chat for a bit.
Thanks to Shiba Sommelier for permission to repost:
Guys, I’m super psyched about this Sauvignon Blanc from Uruguay! Can you tell? Green pepper, grass, white peach, and lime rind on the nose. Lots of nectarines, white peaches, and lime rind on the palate with nice, crisp acidity.
5/5 bones
$$
Sauvignon Blanc
13% abv
Garzón, URUGUAY
OK, so it didn’t fall from the sky; the peril of not having a frost-free freezer in a place where the relative humidity rarely dips below 60%.
In bell peppers: amazing? How do they do that? Must be genetic modification….
It has been 2-1/2 year since the trash containers appeared. And less than two years since the one on our corner was burned to the ground (for the first time).
The spray paint on this one has mostly disappeared, showing the UV protection it offered the otherwise now-faded plastic.
I don’t know if this resulted from rough handling or solar ultraviolet. Probably a combo. It’s not the only one, by a long shot.
You might recall that the answer to “What do you get when you tell the leñero (firewood seller) that you don’t want pieces longer than 40 cm?” was “an excuse to buy a chainsaw.” This does not suggest that I went chainsaw shopping. However, seeing a small gas-powered chainsaw for sale at Géant for USD 119 — and with a one-year guarantee* — and having exactly USD 120 in my wallet … well, seemed that fate she was a-speakin’ to me. Starts right up, cuts well, even came with a replacement chain.
* typical no-name Chinese power tools typically sell here with a two-month guarantee.
August 10: Day of the Child in Uruguay. Which means? More dinosaurs.
I’ll save for another time why I happened to be at a modern art auction at Castells in Montevideo last night.
The auctioneer appears on the right, elevated. At the left, auction house employees bid on behalf of clients on the phone. The guy in front of the painting is doing the same by mobile phone. The waiter approaching the women has a tray with champagne, whiskey, water (sin o con gas), and fizzy brown high-fructose-corn-syrup water.
The pieces sold from USD 1,200 to over USD 30,000 while we were watching.
