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In honor of the Junior track-and-field meet that's been over at Hayward field all week, I decided to feature my fastest animals: the sprinter, and the distance runners. (Not pictured: the sloth dinner plate, just off screen on the left. I found the contrast amusing.) My first customer of the day, an older lady using her umbrella in it's original purpose. (Umbrella: Latin, little shadow.) She'd been over at Hayward, watching her grandchildren compete. Picked up a mug for them, and a cheetah small baking dish for herself.
Construction/destruction continues to circle the park blocks. One corner has its new concrete laid; no curbs, and I really don't see how there's going to be enough space for two lanes of traffic. It occurs to me that the original plan for the Park Blocks renewal featured a new city hall on the site of the old Butterfly Lot. Now that they've decided to refit the old EWEB building (which was my preference all along), I don't know what they'll do with the gravel lot on the north side of the Farmers Market Pavilion.
Saw Shannon, our GM, talking with a new group of missionaries during set-up, Jehovah's Witnesses. Gotta say, regardless of my beliefs or theirs, I prefer them to our usual evangelicals. They're polite, dress nicely, don't monopolize any given corner all day (like buskers, they're supposed to move periodically. Not all of them do). Best of all, they don't have a bull horn.
There's been some push-back from newer members about our No Dogs policy of late. Say we're driving off potential customers, missing an important part of the market. And has there ever actually been a dog fight at Market? (Yes. Yes, there has.) I was watching from my booth in the afternoon as a guy with a Husky tried to pull it away as it cocked its leg on the back corner of the Info Booth. I went over to check if he'd been successful, and the answer was, not particularly. The critter had painted a long, zig-zagging path of urine all along the back wall.
I don't think staff is going to be supportive of a change.