They’ve been going to the farmer’s market for about twenty years now, and they tell me that recently their business has been growing quite rapidly (no pun intended!) They have been thinking about expanding their farmer’s market business into other nearby towns and have been trying to find business partners that they could pair up with be able to sell their produce at other locations. Most of the area farmer’s markets require each vendor to have his or her own table and canopy to set up to sell their produce, but there is a new farm stand that opened up nearby that the farmers can just deliver their produce to the farm stand and one employee sells all of the produce from all of the farms. I think that is a good use of manpower, one vendor selling all of the different farms products.

Seems to me that getting into the farmer’s market business is actually a good, profitable idea. There seems to be a lot more information available to the health-conscious consumer about how eating locally grown food is healthier for the consumer and more environmentally friendly as well. My favorite farmer’s market food is the super-sweet corn that has been picked that morning, and the delicious heirloom tomatoes. Once you’ve tasted an heirloom tomato there is no turning back, you are hooked! I think that you will see an increase in the number of farmer’s markets and farm stands in the years to come.

Although I remembered that the news shows had been talking about the event, I really had not paid any attention to them at all; I had no suspicion that I’d be in the position to see it. So it was a good part of the day today.

Hall tree

Ever since I moved into this house I have wanted to find the perfect hall tree. I want one that has a bench to sit on, a place to hang coats, and a rack on the top for hats and gloves, and a rack on the bottom for shoes and/or boots. That doesn’t sound all that hard, does it? But the hallway I want to put the tree in is very narrow and short, so it has to be just the right size. A tall order for a small space! Well just now I was looking at some metal coat racks online and found exactly what I think I’ve been looking for all of these years! I’m going to bookmark the page and tomorrow find my tape measure and measure that hallway spot to see if I can fit that hall tree in the space. I hope it will fit!

Thank goodness I have decent security software – it could have been much worse.

Ray had a pony named Bud that he would harness up and take into the woods behind their house and used to haul wood out to the house. When he was given the chance to buy a used skid steer for a song, Ray just grinned and said “no thanks, Bud and I enjoy hauling wood together.”

It was rather refreshing to know that there still are people in the world that are living without debt, within their means, and still enjoying life.

For that reason I try to stay in bed in the morning until my husband leaves the house to run errands or go to work, because no matter how many times I explain to him that I NEED that peaceful beginning of the day he simply will not give me that peace and quiet. I try explaining to him how important that quiet time is before I go to bed at night, in the middle of the day, when I first get up, it does not matter. If he is home I will not get that peace and quiet. I am loathe to start off the day telling him to “shut-up” because I think that is very rude. But when I wake up and am getting out of bed and tell him “I really need some quiet time this morning” and then frequently asking him “please stop talking to me and let me have some quiet time” just isn’t doing the trick. What would you do? I am close to my wit’s end!

When I drive past it on my way home from work I am so busy dealing with rush hour traffic that I don’t even notice it. But I definitely have been craving some cheesecake! So I’ve decided that if I am ever going to get my cheesecake craving filled, that maybe I should check out the Cheesecake.com website and either order some online to be delivered to me at work, or maybe try out one of the recipes that the website has published on their page.