Well, grocery delivery has turned out to be surpisingly convenient

[conuly]

and there are some things I can order that I can't easily get without a long bus trip - blintzes, Ben and Jerry's ice cream*, butter at a decent price** - but I'll be delighted when I feel secure going to the store myself again. The tips are really cutting into the grocery budget, and I don't begrudge the delivery guys their tips - they earn them! - but....

Also, it was impossible to even get a slot for ages, and I've been buying two weeks at a time, but that's died down and I think I should be able to start buying for one week at a time again pretty soon, especially if I'm buying in person (no tips!), and that'll clear up a lot of fridge space.

Now, NYC is talking about starting to reopen June 8th. Give it two weeks to see if cases spike, that puts us now at the end of June so I think I won't make any changes at all until the third Monday after July 4th. If there isn't a spike at the end of a partially reopened holiday weekend then we should be pretty safe. Safe to go grocery shopping, anyway, in the mornings when it's not too crowded and I'm all masked up.

Still not encouraging my mother to go out and about even a little. Hahahaha no.


* I know, it's a travesty.

** All I ask is that they don't gouge!

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[conuly]

The North Shore is pretty built up, but if I'm careful to stay off of a few specific streets* and time my dogwalking carefully I can usually avoid people, thank goodness. Even now I could probably get all the way up to Silver Lake if I go the twisty way instead of straight up Victory - nobody goes the twisty way because the hills are too steep and it's all too turny. But Silver Lake... I don't know. It's a big park, and it ought to be clear enough of people, but then a lot of people might go there to let off steam or allow their kids to run around.

* Unfortunately, one of those streets is my normal route because that's the one with all the convenient garbage cans, so.