Breaking Out

I broke down on Thursday and found myself shopping, albeit briefly, in three different locations. It was quite a breakout after 10 weeks of lying pretty low. My combined total time in these establishments was probably 30 minutes or less, and I felt safe in each case.

First, we needed things from the nearby pharmacy from which we also get care products of various kinds as well as vitamins and such. It would be too much to ask others to shop for such a fiddly list, so out I went at 8AM, during the supposed seniors hour. There weren't many of us and most were masked, but some were not masked and not seniors. Oh well.

It went quickly and well enough.

Then I headed to the same garden centre that we turned away from last weekend because it was too crowded. Only 3 or 4 others lined up to wait for the 9AM opening. Only one was masked, and none of the workers were. Mind you, it would be onerous to wear a mask all day long in that hot place

The entrance had one way to enter (left in photo) and one way to exit, but apart from that aisles were narrow and unmarked (they couldn't be really).

Most of what flowers we needed, kind neighbours had already picked up for us at the much busier local garden centre, so armed with a minimal remaining list, I must have been in and out within 10 minutes.

Although I felt pretty safe in both venues, I would not have liked to be in the garden centre when it was crowded.

Finally, for supper, I braved another store — a little takeout place for shawarmas. To minimize time and fuss, we called in our little order, picked it up, and ate on a table behind townhall. We usually have done shawarmas with the kids. It wasn't the same without them.

I took a photo of where we sat and ate near the river, and Sue did a selfie with her phone. It helps that she can set the phone down and trigger it from her watch.

After our little supper, we walked to the bridge around the corner and looked both downriver and upriver. This is the upriver view.

By personal preference, I do try to avoid chronicling the day sequentially from morning to evening, but it seemed the way to go about posting today.

I hope you have a good weekend. The heat has broken here, but we have rain in the forecast for this afternoon.