Farmer’s Market
The first McBride Community Market was held this July 1st, Friday. That was also CANADA DAY, and in general all vendors and visitors (locals and tourists) were in a cheerful mood.
For the market, I baked vanilla cheesecake to serve with a fresh strawberry sauce, and spanakopita (greek spinach pie in phyllo). I had made some Strawberry Lavender Jam from our own berries, and Blueberry Jam from frozen berries from the health food store. As usual, I took all the perennial plants that I could load, the last three apple trees, and a few lilac bushes. Then I took the two siamese-coloured kittens in a little travel kennel.
Part of my jubilant mood about the market was a result of selling the two kittens to an “older couple” who take excellent care of their pets. The little ones went together to a home, and that was delightful. I just have one little kitten left: I didn’t take all three to the market because I didn’t have the heart to leave the mother cat with no kittens so suddenly.
Sales were brisk at first and eventually I sold most of the food and a few perennial plants and one apple tree. I would go to the market just to visit, but the bit of revenue I generate is helpful too.
I was fairly frustrated and unhappy when a long-time friend approached me at the market and told me that she’d been avoiding me for three weeks. I had THOUGHT she’d given me the cold shoulder on another occasion, but then had put it out of my mind. In a conversation last month, my friend thought, when I debated a point she was making, that I was “calling her a liar”. I did in NO way call her a liar; people are sometimes mistaken about things and I had been trying to make a statement of fact. This has ended up in a debate about what was said and when and seems very complex. I reminded my friend that I would never have intentionally hurt her. I think the conversation of that day ended in a “stalemate” and both our feelings were bruised. I am troubled.
Gary is ready to take me out for breakfast, so I’ll continue later.
Thank you for stopping in!
~Ann
