New market

 After Ken left last night, I looked around and took some things apart and came up with 15 things to list, but by the time I'd done all that I was pretty tired so I went to bed. 

I woke up around 3, cleaned up a bit, and took off to put my check in the bank - I'm only off by about $4 and that could be the fee I pay when my account balance is too low) and then went over to Whole Foods. They had my favorite near-beer in single cans and I got that and a slice of pizza. That was pretty good and only a little over $6. And the pizza they serve has a very thin crust except at the outer edge, so it's not too bad to just eat the part with the toppings on it.

I walked up to the hardware store and got some toilet bowl cleaner then went back and got on the bike, with the plan of going to Walmart. But my heart wasn't in it so I just went to the Amazon place for some bubble mailers and then, on my way to Nijiya, remembered that I wanted to go to Cardenas market, to buy some pigeon peas. 

I locked my bike a half-block away as there are a fair number of bums in front of Cardenas (and behind, and, for that matter, on both sides) and went in, and kept finding things to buy. A pepper, some broccoli, celery, liquid smoke which I'd been hoping to find for years, etc. My hands were pretty full and I went looking for a hand basket, not seeing any. I took a vegetable box and put my stuff in that and it worked just fine. 

I found canned green pigeon peas - pricey at $2.69 - but no dried ones. I wanted to try the fresh ones first though. I've become very interested in this type of pea, because it's a staple food in Africa and India but now well known in the US and it grows well in Hawaii. There are tons of different kinds of legumes in Hawaii, from tiny plants to huge trees, and some grow the pigeon pea for its pretty flowers and popularity with butterflies. 

If I like 'em, I'll buy some dried ones at the African store and see if I can get them to grow around here. 

I'm enough of a survivalist to be interested in things that can be eaten that are not generally recognized as food, so others don't want them. Like sweet potato leaves. People generally thought they were poisonous, or at least no edible. Knowing they are was a lifesaver at one time. 

I stopped in at Nijiya for a few things and rode home, stopping at one dumpster to pick up a few "fuzzy melons" which are a young form of winter squash, and then got back here. I offloaded things and started out because I wanted to have a look at the medical dumpster.

On my way back here, I'd passed what looked when it was ahead of me, like a guy doing DoorDash as he had one of those big rad box-shaped food carrying bags on his back. Then I caught up as the ostensible Door Dasher circled the parking lot and then stopped to fiddle with the bike. I passed and got a look - it was a scumsucker. I can just imagine someone working DoorDash and stopping in somewhere to use the loo, leaving his bike and bag out front for just a moment. And coming out and his bike and bag are gone. 

So as I was coming out of here onto Old Bayshore, there's the scumsucker walking the bike, heading into this complex here. I rode past then circled around and slowly came back in by a circuitous route to see where the scumbag was going. To sit down in the shade across from this shop, that's where. And I was seen. 

I took off again, checking the medical dumpster (nothing) and checking the sign shop's dumpster where I got a small room heater, a beach towel, a gym bag, and a few cloth bags like people use to get groceries with. So that was good. 

I came back here and the scumsucker was gone. I put the bike away and got some bubble wrap out of the welding place's dumpster, then took a box and did some picking-up around the parking lot and found that the bum who'd picked up the scrap metal I'd left out last night, had just stashed it behind the trash enclosure. So I took that out and put the metal in the welding place's trash can also. You snooze, you lose, bums!