June 3

I have a brief time before we are supposed to get rain. Thankfully the predicted temperatures should be cooler than the 90+F we had yesterday. I went out to water things and to plant another 3 buckets with convolvulus, Hopi black dye sunflowers, and chocolate morning glories. (update: we now have a light rain)

We went out to vote yesterday and did our major shopping. We could have gotten a mail in ballot but we were curious about how things would go though Indiana has eased the pandemic restrictions. A lot of people either decided to skip the primaries or did vote by mail. Everyone was making sure of their distance but there were no lines so it really didn't matter. All the poll workers had their masks though their seats were not 6 ft apart. Our system is a combination of electronic and paper. They scan your ID, have you sign on the capture screen, and then print out a blank ballot which you take to the voting machine. After you insert the ballot and make your choices it prints the ballot and you take it to the reader which tabulates the votes. If any of the results are challenged they can pull out the paper ballots for confirmation.

We made a stop at the city open-air market but arrived way too early. Some venders were just setting up. We checked the hours but a late change cut the time from the announced 8-2 to 9-1. Since no one had tomatoes yet we scanned the set up and went on to finish shopping at our usual supermarket. The rules on masks were never all that stringent and only about 25-30% of shoppers were wearing them. We were. We plan to go back to the market Saturday which has always been the more active day.