Winnipeg

My first post in English, exciting!

It's been flat and hot here, plus the city is full of mosquitos. You can hear the familiar whine in the bedroom while sleeping, in the kitchen while cooking, in the grocery store while standing in line, in the bus while traveling - even in the +30-celsius-heat of the midday sun I ended the life of a couple of little bastards who were eating my leg... Oh the flood-lands!

My things to a large degree have found their places but some are still in boxes and we are in the process of looking for cheap furniture, so it feels sort of like home. Last weekend we put together a very affordable new bookcase applying the given flawed instructions. (Or maybe they mislabeled the skrews and missed some building steps purposefully?) Um. I guess it's better to get second-hand.

And well yes, the cracks in the road annoy me and my buttocks, running the straight roads challenges the patience and the endless parking lots versus one or no bike stands are so depressing. But people are always helpful, fields are full of local grain varieties and I am well on my way in developing a persevering endurance for living prolonged times without forest and water. Also, knowing that the boreal shield as well as Manitoban desert woods are both only about 2 hours away is sort of relieving.

We also have visited the Winnipeg's best (?) farmers market that is only some 500 meters from our house. Prices are extortionate, though. And Jos says the buckwheat honey tastes like horse. But we have bought local organic spelt flour and grains (made a nice sprouted grain bread with P. Reinhart's recipe), as well as vegetables and pulses. We also got some huge zucchinis and other random harvest from a friend's farm. Very nice. I have yet to taste Saskatoon berries though.. they only have them in jam, syrup and pies. Where can I get them just raw, anyone??