I try to use reusable bags as often as i can although i have not gone as far as bringing bags to put produce in, which i should. There are still plenty of stores here in Austin that will happily bag my stuff in regular plastic bags, i don’t love it and sometimes by the time i notice my stuff has already been bagged and given to me. At least those bags i use for smaller trash around the house and we’ve avoided collecting them in the pantry which is a good change.
10 Likes
I bag up most produce that isn’t already pre-bagged or shrink wrapped, which grocery stores are doing more often lately. Exceptions are the larger things with stronger rinds or skins like melons and winter squash, and I wash those before cutting up or peeling them.
I prefer to grab a cart outside from the sun-baked cart corrals on the probably incorrect assumption that the heat and UV must be killing off some of the plague germs smeared all over the handle, kid seat and basket surface. I’ll wipe the handle and kid seat down with the antibacterial wipes too.
11 Likes
Oh, it makes sense! Carry on!
11 Likes
Let us lift our bags and raise you a tote!
10 Likes
On the one hand, the produce should be washed before use anyway. On the other hand, shopping carts are nasty AF on their own, and putting produce in the cart like that seems like a terrible idea.
If there’s a concern about landfill waste from using plastic bags, bring some washable mesh bags or a roll of those compostable bags that are used for cleaning up after dogs.
13 Likes
Definitely produce should be washed, i just don’t want to risk exposing my food to additional potential problems.
And i’m on board with using washable bags for produce 
was looking at some earlier
13 Likes
For me it was having one drift underneath the car & melting itself to the oil pan. For months I’d smell that hot plastic film every damned time the car ran (which, of course, is its own issue).
12 Likes
Clearly I’m in the minority here, but I’m usually a grocery raw-dogger.
It really depends on the specific produce. Hard-skinned (easy to wash) stuff like apples & citrus, and things like bananas, onions, avocados, corn in the husk, where you don’t eat the skin, I got no problem raw dogging those.
13 Likes
Came down to the Library of Congress to see a lecture by the current jazz scholar, Willard Jenkins, & managed to snag a leftover/no-show ticket for the Gary Bartz concert afterwards. I don’t think I’d been to one of these since before Covid (I had tix to one recently & couldn’t go, I let my son use 'em)
Anyway, these are some of the artifacts on display in the lobby tonite:
(ETA)
This was the last show of the season. With the current political climate, & the recent firing of the Librarian, I’m worried about the next season. However: this was the first show under a new endowment for chamber/classical & jazz performances here, so - 
21 Likes
nice. what is meant by “holographic” scores?
9 Likes
13 Likes
“Holographic” documents are ones which are handwritten by the author/composer. I’ve seen this mostly in the context of wills (“holographic last will and testament”).
9 Likes
It’s smaller than I expected
9 Likes
It is impressive when you get here.
ETA
When I was a child, the first time I saw this aqueduct, I was very impressed. It was something anachronistic (at the time I didn’t even know that word), a remnant of the past in the midst of so many modern steel and glass buildings.
One day, walking through my childhood neighborhood, I saw another similar aqueduct, but much smaller and used only by an old sugarcane and coffee plantation.
Although we love nostalgia, we are not very fond of preserving the past and its ancient buildings, but somehow these constructions resist and appear in the most unexpected places.
8 Likes
