We had a good final market. We had a good season.
With the daughters off for the weekend we came home to an empty house tired and hungry with chores to be done...afterwards we decided to celebrate the end of the market season. I was gifted with a bottle of wine a few months back and at the time was not feeling well enough to enjoy it. So I had Hubby bring up the bottle of Saint and we paired it with a salad topped with steak and side dressed with some lentils. Not what most would consider a celebrator dinner but it was what we had and we enjoyed it. For dessert we had some truffle cheese with a bit more wine.
Then we got up the next morning with intents of working hard but it was overcast and gloomy so we decided to go to the neighboring small city (opposed to the small town) farmers market to see what they were up to this year....I do not know why I do this every year. It is such a disappointment. The prices are high and the vendors are not friendly. They do have a lovely location that the city has invested money in for them...but nothing like the markets where I work where the vendors are friends and we all are there so support one another. And I am pretty sure the man I asked a question about his product (which we had already paid for) lied to me. Something about the way he answered and then didn't follow up, left me thinking he had just been dishonest with his words...Hubby who usually gives people more of the benefit of the doubt than me, said he thought that I had been lied to. Maybe being vendors ourselves makes us a bit more hard nosed but I would never flat out lie to someone about our products. We try to be as honest as possible about what we sell. And if there is any doubt we tell people not to buy our product. We want a happy overall market experience not just to make money.....happy shoppers like to be treated like friends not strangers that you can rip off.
Well after that unpleasant experience we found ourselves at the thrift store across the street. We found a few items there to include a few piece of BEAUTIFUL antique silverware!! I love beautiful things and still think things like good quality silver from the past a form of art that stainless ware just cannot replace. Unfortunately, we could not find the knives--I am sure someone had taken them and chopped them up for wind chimes or something...I tucked them securely into the silver drawer in my buffet probably to be forgotten about until I am searching for something special.
We decided to eat lunch out on our outing. Something we hadn't done all summer. So we stopped at a newer Mexican restaurant and was extremely pleased with the meal and staff.
As we were on our way to do our few shopping chores, the phone rang and it was Mom informing us that Dad needed help off the toilet. So we rushed home to attend to that need. We took the time to feed and move the chickens and to drink some much needed coffee.
After that we went back to town to take care of Mom's pharmacy run and to pick up a few other odds and ends. This ended up taking most of the rest of the day. I found a decent portable HEPA air filter system on sale and got that for my parents. Because they refuse to run the air condition regularly humidity builds up inside of the apartment and things get musty. I have battled with them all summer about the air quality in their place. I would go in and turn the air conditioner on and I would go back a few hours later and it would be off!! I am gradually working on some other possible changes to help with the quality of air but one thing at a time. So we started by putting the filter in the apartment....
By this time it was time to feed the chickens again and time to think about dinner. Earlier in the day, I had decided that lamb chops would go good with the last of the Saint and so thus planned accordingly when picking from the freezer. We had one of the last summer squash and some of the first turnips of the season. We enjoyed this meal and settled in front of the tv for a couple of hours of viewing before it was time for Hubby to go out and put Dad to bed.
Dad had a bad day yesterday, he was hallucinating again. Today he is probably a bit better but still real foggy in the mind. I do not know what causes it but he does this every so often. It is not uncommon for him to be off for a few days. It used to concern me, and I would worry and worry about him....and then he would get better, until I began to see it as a pattern. Yesterday, I was wondering if it might not have something to do with the cycle of the moon. With this big super moon maybe the lunar tides are stronger or something.