After work I was determined to get 1 bag of rice from Fresh Fields (now Whole Foods). 1 bag. So out the U Street metro I wandered down 14th St. 14th Street is the way cool street of Shaw. It’s not my part of Shaw, but it is Shaw and it is way cool. The sky seemed almost ready to wet itself and me so I didn’t have time to fool around, but there were some stores that just begged for a walkthrough.
I haven’t been in Home Rule for the longest. I think the last time I was in there was to buy the organza curtains for what is now my roommate’s room. They still have those curtains, they are still $30 a panel. There are several neat kitchen things in bins that screamed “take me!” “no, me!” If it weren’t for the $15 price tag I may have actually bought the kitchen frangrances they were selling.
I skipped Go Mamma Go, Pulp and that new 100% Mexican store. I really need to go into the Mexican store. But I did not pass The Garden District I passed through it. They still got herbs, like I need more herbs. I bought my passionflower vine from them, the one taking over the fence.
Okay, Fresh Fields, bag of rice.
I also passed all the new condo construction on 14th and P. This area is going to get so crowded once all this is done. Goodbye to finding any parking. Part of me is happy people want to live in Shaw, and that Shaw is becoming hip/cool/ whatever, but how much is too much? How many more non-garden style/ high rise condos are going to be built? And really are there that many people with $300K-$700K to spend on a condo around?
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I did get my bag of rice, and some granola.