Saturday Market
Went to the downtown open market for fresh eggs, hand-picked spinach, red-leaf lettuce and radishes grown by our local farmers. I can hardly wait to go out to my garden and pick our own eggplants, tomatoes, beans, zucchini, cukes and squash. The morning glories are finally popping out of the ground and are about 2" tall. Don't know if they will actually get a chance to vine on the tepee or if the deer and rabbit will enjoy them for breakfast first. I left some clover growing wildly hoping that the animals will prefer the sweet clover over the morning glories.
Cliff spent the day preparing for a benefit for one of our firefighters who has cancer. Our local butcher shop donated and cooked all the pork butts. Other local merchants donated Cole slaw, garden salad, potato salad, beans, rolls, drinks, and spouses baked desserts. At noon, Cliff and a few others met at the community center and began pulling pork while it was still hot. When our friendly greeter at the transfer station (where we take our trash and recyclables) heard about the benefit, she donated a beautiful handmade star quilt that she had just completed. We were totally amazed at the number of people in this small community, where the unemployment rate is 17%, that came by when the doors opened at 3 PM. By 4, families had formed a long line out the door. Some just dropped by to leave $100 and $200 donations. The quilt raffle tickets brought in at least another $1500. I baked an apple-walnut pie cake for the dessert sale that covered 2 banquet tables. Cliff came home around 8PM after the cleanup and said that the turn out was better than they had expected. We bought 15 raffle tickets, but I didn't win the quilt. The firefighter who the benefit was held for, was there greeting people and his spirits were so lifted to see how many people came out for him.
Cliff spent the day preparing for a benefit for one of our firefighters who has cancer. Our local butcher shop donated and cooked all the pork butts. Other local merchants donated Cole slaw, garden salad, potato salad, beans, rolls, drinks, and spouses baked desserts. At noon, Cliff and a few others met at the community center and began pulling pork while it was still hot. When our friendly greeter at the transfer station (where we take our trash and recyclables) heard about the benefit, she donated a beautiful handmade star quilt that she had just completed. We were totally amazed at the number of people in this small community, where the unemployment rate is 17%, that came by when the doors opened at 3 PM. By 4, families had formed a long line out the door. Some just dropped by to leave $100 and $200 donations. The quilt raffle tickets brought in at least another $1500. I baked an apple-walnut pie cake for the dessert sale that covered 2 banquet tables. Cliff came home around 8PM after the cleanup and said that the turn out was better than they had expected. We bought 15 raffle tickets, but I didn't win the quilt. The firefighter who the benefit was held for, was there greeting people and his spirits were so lifted to see how many people came out for him.
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