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A blustery day at market

By on October 9, 2011 in Farmers Market

I’m back from our first day at market. 

Today started early this morning….early!  We had all the cookie dough made in the afternoon, and the girls love to get in the action when we start baking for market.  The littlest is always the most eager.

We made many batches of cookies, white chocolate almond, chocolate chip and raisin oatmeal.  I made a huge batch of pumkin spice douhgnuts and vanilla ice cream as well as devils food snickers push pop cupcakes.  We got everything packed up and headed out at 8:30 AM to set up at 9.

 It was so great to be back… for the first hour.  We got our booth set up pretty quick and honestly it felt we had never left. 

An hour after market opened so did God’s wind machine.  A bad storm started coming in and though it never rained until after we left, the wind was so powerful that many booths almost lost their canopies and about every 10 minutes or so a big gust would get up under our tent and we would have to jump up and grab a pole.  Many of the 70 vendors packed up and left and with them the traffic that had been coming in.  We had no choice but to take our tent down and then just kept our tables up in the hopes we would sell our baked goodies.  In the next two hours we sold out of our pumpkin spice doughnuts and most of the push pop cupcakes. 

The highlight of the day was the food truck parked next to us, Zest of the Chef.  Since there were basically no customers, he brought me over a sample of a savory blue cheesecake and oh my goodness, just thinking about it right now gives me goosebumps, again!  It was so undescribably amazing. So much talent in our little town, I was so happy to meet him and his partner, she was so sweet.  I know what I am having next week for lunch, oh I hope he has it again or I will surely suffer.  You can see them here or like them on Facebook here. 

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outside please

By on October 7, 2011 in Kids

 can you follow the ball?

it’s blue, do you see it now?

It is fall, it really is.  On my walk today I saw so many different colors of leaves on the trees (in Florida we don’t get the glorious colors the rest of the country gets but right here in my town we get a little more than most Floridians.. I love it.

We want to just live outside right now.  In a rocking chair, in the hammock or picnic tables under the oaks or playing baseball on the front lawn.  Umm…you guys make sure you are hitting the ball towards the forrest and not towards our front door or windows please! 

Our four rocking chairs on the front porch are constantly ocupado!  Kids are in and out of the front door, baseball gloves, bikes and sneakers are strewn all over the front porch and gardens. Even the chickens have decided that front porch is their favorite place…that reminds me, I better sweep all the mulch they threw everywhere back into the garden before Poppa sees it. 

Olivia (in her natural playing state of dirtyness) was enjoying her apple when she spotted Rooster and Hen (also known as Mr and Mrs Duck) getting in on the front porch action and had to go investigate pester the poor ducks and chickens.  Those two really think they are chickens.

I have been preparing for our return to Saturdays Farmers Market so I had to force myself back inside to continue at the sewing machine (I promise I will share what I have made when I am done).  The fall breeze calls me and taps on the kitchen window, I snap myself out of my autumn daydream and get back to work and then a child looks into my eyes with the question. Momma, can’t you come outside for a little while?? and I realize

Everything I want right now is outside please.

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