Fun Weekend!

 The weekend started with a GREAT market.

We have increased our product line

to six freeze dried products.

We now have:

1. Honey Crisp apples 

2. Granny Smith apples

3. Zucchini sticks with Everything Bagel

4. Zucchini chips with parmesan

5. Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Sandwich bites

6. Salt Water Taffy

We nearly sold out of the taffy.

And the zucchini did really well.

We didn't have a TON of people...

school is in, so families are doing

Saturday morning stuff (like sports, etc)

and it is chilly early these days.

But about 10:00 it picked up.

Our best day so far was the day we

helped sell the stuff for Dave & Mary.

We did a total of $143 that day.

This week, selling our FD stuff as well

as some zucchini, yellow squash, and

lemon cucumbers (once I cut into one and

started handing out little bites they were

SUPER popular...)

we did a total of.....

DRUM ROLL.....

$141!!!!!

Not bad at all!

That included as we were pulling out of

the park, a friend from church and her son

came running up and bought another $20

worth of goodies and when we got to the house,

a lady was there who decided she needed

another bag of salt water taffy since she was

going visiting that afternoon and wanted to share.

(Or not... lol.)

As we were unloading everything,

we got a text from one of the other vendors.

His sister lives here in town, he stops by her

house after market and off-loads all the stuff

that didn't sell - she is a great canner.

Anyhow.

He gave her one of my honey crisp apple sticks

and she was HOOKED.

She has 4 apple trees and just finished picking

the organic "Johnny" apples (a yummy

red apple like a macintosh kind of...)

and wanted to GIVE THEM to us!

So we ran over to her house and picked up

4 or 5 boxes of apples.

Then when we got BACK home, Kyle and I

stood in the kitchen and used our nifty

thing that peels, cores and spiral slices apples.

We did the last of the honeycrisp.

I tossed them in a little pumpkin pie spice

and then we got them on 2 trays.

We will get started on the johnnys this afternoon.

Then we ALL took a nap!

Next it was dinner and then we headed to

the racetrack to watch the season finals.

You can tell you are in the Midwest when there are

modified race cars in the foreground and a

grain elevator in the back.

It was a really fun night.

I went to Walmart on Friday and picked up

some comfy stadium seats that made the

entire event so much better!

It got chilly, but we had jackets and blankets

and were toasty warm.

We didn't get home until about 11:30.

So it was straight off to bed.

The guys had to get up early to be in Salina

(pronounced Sal EYE na) for a 

priesthood meeting at 9:00. 

It's 2 hours away. (Stake Center)

And then we met at the church for

Sac Mtg only at 1:00.

Meanwhile, I got the grated zucchini out

of the freeze dryer and a load of tomatoes

in the machine.

While we were at church, I put a roast

in the pressure cooker so it was all

ready for us to eat when we got home.

And then we rested for the remainder of the day.

This morning I'm starting the day with

bacon, eggs, and fresh okra in the air fryer

(nothing better than okra in bacon grease!)

Now we are off to Home Depot in Hays

to pick up Kyle's lumber order so he and Rod

and start building the decks around his house.

Once the deck is up, they can install the 2nd floor

door out to the deck. (Hard to do with nothing to stand on...)

And I need to pick up some more salt water taffy

and some Skittles from WalMart and get them in

the machine for sale this week.

We had lots of return customers and they all

want to sample anything "new" so I try to add

at least one new product each week.

Plus I got some business cards with our name

and phone number and handed those out and

reminded folks that farmers market season ends

in 2 weeks but we are still here in town and

are happy to take care of all their snacking needs.