I'm going nuts!

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One thing I like in this pandemia is the way things come to me when once I did have to travel through the rural roads and highways, stop over by the roadside, and avail of local products in bamboo makeshift kiosks. Oh well, the CoViD generation seem to offer a new way of life. Now, a delivery contraption, not a rickety cart but something like a scooter with a plastic umbrella, halt right in front of my gate, the delivery man shouting loud my daughter's name, to our shame because the silence in the neighborhood was broken, my doggies barking and growling, and my raggedy self, hair in a top bun, rushing out like crazy to receive the box. Oh, I'm going nuts! Nah! It's just that the nuts have arrived! The sender, I discovered, lives in Bengued, a province in Northern Philippines, hails the nuts - cashew and peanuts - from Dagupan, Pangasinan, right at the central plain of the island, and markets the finished roasted products in Baguio, the city of pines or the summer capital of the country, again in the north. That means the nuts traveled in a roundabout way before finally arriving in my home. I live in Metro Manila Yay! Me happy. Nuts, anyone?