Pride celebration

Yesterday fayanora and I went to the Portland Pride festival. I hadn't been for several years even before Covid.

I think this is the last time I'm going. The long line to get in moved pretty fast. But once in, I had several problems. There was almost *no* place to sit down. And being as out of shape as I am I needed to sdtop and rest at least once per "group" of booths.

Didn't help that a lot of interesting booths had lots of people standing around them. I couldn't handling 5-10 minutes before I could get a look at stuff.

A few fun spots:

Some folks making Adirondak type furniture (one of the place I was able to sit for a bit). Their name is Adirondykes. :-)

Some interesting vibrators from Cutelittlefuckers.

I bought a dark (black & Purple) Ghost Neko at the Kumoricon booth.

Anyway, after maybe an hour and a half I texted Fay and told here I was going home.

Fruit and veggies

Got my Farm Direct Nutrition Program checks a week or so back.

Since it's ok to have someone else buy things for you with them, I gave a couple to fayanora since she hits farmers markets more often than I do.

and the other day I sent her a link to cruciferous vegetables and we were discussing them, especially which ones we hadn't had yet.

Anyway, seems she'bought some kohlrabi, and had bought some mustard greens she wasn't fond of. So yesterday she brought over the mustard greens and one of the kohlrabi.

I basically chopped up the kohlrabi, leaves and stems included. Tried a bit of leaf and a bit of the tuber before tossing them in the water for my ramen.

I can only describe the leaves as "chewy". The tuber was ok, Had an ok flavor, but that was it.

After cooking the leaves were still pretty meh, but the tuber was nice. Texture tells me they'd mash well.

So I've got another item on the "will buy again, but won't go looking specifally for it" lust.