August 27, 2005 - New Market and Tomato-RAMA
This spring we reserved a space at the farmer’s market section of the local energy cooperative’s annual meeting and fair. We were regretting it after the good market in Grinnell. The market was indeed rather lousy - it was twice as long and we sold a third as much.
The event was very nice though. I won a door prize of a $25.00 credit on my next electric bill. Martin got to ride up 55 feet to as high as the co-ops “lofty” could reach! Dad forgot his camera, so here’s a copy of a Polaroid they took before he went up. He’s got “hard hat” in hand and safety harness on.
We had lots of produce left over, so we went nuts canning - we canned over 30 quarts of tomatoes.
I also completed selling some things on e-bay - mainly things that were broken or in auction boxes I didn’t want - got nearly 100 dollars, led by a DeWalt drill, charger and battery that didn’t work for 34 dollars!
