Good morning Steemit

First things first:

Remember me asking you guys which picture to submit to Art at SteemFest? Well, opinions were widely spread, but in the end, this one got a small majority:

(Also available in my Redbubble shop)

So I just submitted that one and I hope you'll get to see it in Lisboa next month! Be sure to snap me a picture, because sadly, I won't be attending myself.

Right, with that out of the way, I'll go into my usual details of the weather. Well, there's less sun this morning than there was yesterday, but it's supposed to get even warmer today. I get to air out the place again this afternoon I guess!

It was nice and warm yesterday with lots of sun, so for archery, I tried picking the 3D animals that let me stand in the sun, instead of the shade. We didn't practice for very long, because my boyfriend wasn't feeling too great. He had a headache all day.

We also did groceries. Now groceries on a sunday is very much not done in this little community, because most people here are still all for sunday church day and resting day. That's all well and good for them I guess and they should do whatever they want. It's just a bit of an inconvenience to me. We had to go for a little drive to get to a store in the big city that was actually open. This, while I was used to being able to just walk over to one in my old city.

Oh well, it's a small sacrifice to make for a nice area to live in.

I don't really get the people who are against opening times on sunday though. It's not even just the stores. Some don't even want the swimming pool to open up on sunday. I mean, what does it benefit them if nothing opens up? If someone doesn't want to do anything else besides going to church on sunday, I wouldn't force them to do anything else. But hey, why not let other people make their own choices?

Some stores do want to open up on sunday, because they're losing purchases to the big city stores that do open up. It really isn't that unusual anymore for grocery stores to open up on sunday afternoon.

I know one of the reasonings behind places staying closed on sunday is that employees won't have a day off, but I just don't get that reasoning. It's not like they suddenly have to work more hours in the week. If anything, it opens up more job opportunities, because sunday shifts need to get filled aswell. Hey, isn't that neat for non-believers who want to earn a little extra on one of their two non-school days?

I don't know, I guess not everyone goes all-rational when thinking about this stuff. I am a firm non-believer myself, so I guess I can't relate at all to the sunday rest day thing.

Anyway, where was I? Right, groceries! I'm happy we got to do them yesterday, because saturday was way too busy for us and we were too tired to go out again after all the cleaning and moving. My boyfriend uses the car for work all other days, so I can't do big shopping a lot. If I go by bike, I can't take a lot with me and if I go to the neighbours, well they are mainly there for fresh veggies and fruit.

Honestly though, I do notice some minor differences to people here, compared to further up north where all the 'down to earth' kinda folk supposedly lives (I'm one of them). And this is only an hour's drive away! I guess it mainly has to do with the amount of christians (or other God believers, I'm not sure about the differences, but each church has their own flavour, right?) in the area. I've lived further to the east of here and they were pretty much the same as the people I'm used to up north (de Achterhoek). Here, you still have that small village 'news travels fast' kinda stuff and less open minded people.

I'm not sure if I'm making enemies now by writing this. I'm not intending to, just writing like I see it. You know, like I normally do.

Well, it is what it is. I think I've gone on about this long enough now. This was supposed to be a blog about my days.

My days are pretty slow anyway. Weekend was good and productive. I got some new stuff for my cooking/baking, so who knows. I might have more to talk about tomorrow!

Have a good day!

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