This picture is hazy because the weather is set to Rain Pretty Much All the Time. I thought about adding a picture of the kitchen cupboard with mold growing up the side but well-it's humid, you get the idea. This is actually a picture of a sort of horizontal dumbwaiter, or maybe a pulley suspension bridge. There's an older gent who has a garden on a small island in the middle of the river. I occasionally see him loading up his wheelbarrow on the riverbank and getting on the platform to pull himself and his tools across. Like all the older men I've seen here he is always nattily dressed and usually topped with a txapela (beret). I used to read Harriet the Spy at least thrice annually and so have a lifelong fixation on dumbwaiters, and have thought through if not actually executed plans to install one in our balcony for the groceries. I did actually used to keep a spy notebook and would still, if I were better linguistically equipped to eavesdrop on any conversation not carried out at a shout. And also, these We Buy Gold guys are everywhere. The autonomous community unemployment rate is less than half of the statewide one, and yet. You can sell your jewelry that has 'gone out of fashion,' because that's the reason why anybody would be selling their precious metals at this particular time in history. Everything is going down the drain, so my response is to make cake. Incidentally, one can confect a white chocolate ganache using coconut milk in place of cream, though it's a little runny. Next holiday: May Day Tuesday. So Monday is a "bridge" day off. Don't be jealous, it's unbecoming.
