Where the hell is my floor pump?
Apr. 21st, 2012 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeySomeone swiped THAT out of the alley too, though at least the new bike cover has stayed on the bike.
I hadn't quite realized how long it's been since I took Mimi out, but it had to be last fall. Anyway, I brushed off the inevitable cobwebs and cussed out the landscaper asshole who'd managed to blow a crapton of dirt up under the bike cover with the leaf blower they'd taken to the alley the last time they filled up the compost bin. I rode over to the 76 station over on Webster street and topped up the tire pressure, then went over to check out the new-ish West End Flea (market) over at the college.
It's much smaller and more flea-markety than the monthly antiques show out on the old Naval Station, but it was still fun walking around. My haul included a 100% linen men's shirt with a Colonial Williamsburg label - it buttons all the way down the front,but has some 18th century-ish details that are nice and it's sooooo soft. $10 couldn't buy the linen for it. Also an indigo shibori furoshiki (or possibly a place mat) for $1. And some carrot bread from a lady selling baked goods.
Was home by lunch time, power washed the bike with the hose to get all that dirt off, and grabbed a shower.
While checking email I discovered that Mistress Geraldine has decided to host a make-and-fly-a-kite competition at Beltane. The only problem I see with it is that the event site is in a valley surrounded by hills and I've never been able to get a kite in the air there. Nonetheless, I went looking for the website for the place that sells bamboo kite spars, posted the link to SCA-West - and ordered some bamboo because I'd probably slice off a body part trying to split my own bamboo.
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layla_lilah for a matinee of Hunger Games which I liked more than I thought I would. We tried a new Vietnamese restaurant down the street from the theater in El Cerrito called Nong Thon, which was very good.
I hadn't quite realized how long it's been since I took Mimi out, but it had to be last fall. Anyway, I brushed off the inevitable cobwebs and cussed out the landscaper asshole who'd managed to blow a crapton of dirt up under the bike cover with the leaf blower they'd taken to the alley the last time they filled up the compost bin. I rode over to the 76 station over on Webster street and topped up the tire pressure, then went over to check out the new-ish West End Flea (market) over at the college.
It's much smaller and more flea-markety than the monthly antiques show out on the old Naval Station, but it was still fun walking around. My haul included a 100% linen men's shirt with a Colonial Williamsburg label - it buttons all the way down the front,but has some 18th century-ish details that are nice and it's sooooo soft. $10 couldn't buy the linen for it. Also an indigo shibori furoshiki (or possibly a place mat) for $1. And some carrot bread from a lady selling baked goods.
Was home by lunch time, power washed the bike with the hose to get all that dirt off, and grabbed a shower.
While checking email I discovered that Mistress Geraldine has decided to host a make-and-fly-a-kite competition at Beltane. The only problem I see with it is that the event site is in a valley surrounded by hills and I've never been able to get a kite in the air there. Nonetheless, I went looking for the website for the place that sells bamboo kite spars, posted the link to SCA-West - and ordered some bamboo because I'd probably slice off a body part trying to split my own bamboo.
Met
layla_lilah for a matinee of Hunger Games which I liked more than I thought I would. We tried a new Vietnamese restaurant down the street from the theater in El Cerrito called Nong Thon, which was very good.
