Saturday morning we were in desperate need of fruit and vegetables. With my inability to ride a bike we've needed to find a good produce market within walking distance, which has been hard to do. I recently heard about an all-organic farmers' market along the bike path so we decided to check it out. It was small but had some great finds. We picked out a bunch of bananas and the farmer was so pleased that we bought them he threw in another whole bunch for free. When life throws you lemons you make lemonade but when it's bananas you make banana bread.

We brought back quite a collection of purchases, including coffee and the Taipei Times we picked up at the 7-11 on our way home.

One thing we bought was a bag of spinach. I won't buy that again. It may look like what I think of as spinach but it had the slimiest texture of any green I've eaten here. Yuck. The pineapple more than made up for the disappointment of the spinach. Pineapples are in season now and they are absolutely delicious.

The Taipei Times is a little thin on interesting news but we did learn that Kaohsiung is about to enter Phase 3 of water rationing. Beginning in May parts of the city will have their water shut off two days per week unless we get some rain in the next few weeks. Unfortunately there isn't any rain forecast for southern Taiwan any time soon. Phase 1 rationing was just public announcements saying we were having a drought. Phase 2 meant that swimming pools couldn't be filled. I'm sure there were other restrictions but they were mostly geared towards industry. Now that we're heading towards Phase 3 we'll feel a real impact.