My first market since moving out here – an outdoor market – and this is what we woke up to.

The forecasts were for rain, not snow!

I am so glad we packed the van up yesterday!

While getting ready this morning, I spotted some movement out the living room window, and saw a deer!  It was under the apple tree in the above picture, grazing a bit.  As I watched (and tried to take photos with the DSLR and the zoom lens; I haven’t uploaded those yet), I saw that it wasn’t just grazing, but looking for fallen apples.

Which confirms why we have no apples on the ground for long. :-)

Before we headed out, my nephew arrived with a friend and a trailer.

Not a trailer for the tractor.  Nope.

A trailer for this.

It was the smallest tank he and his friend had access to.  It’s water, for the radiator.

They weren’t going to tow it.  He was going to drive it.  They would just top up the water every few miles.

He was estimating it’ll take him about 10 hours to drive the 100 km back to his place.

At the time we left, however, they still hadn’t been able to start it.  They were going to try pull starting it on the road, after we left.  It was gone when we came back, so I figured they got it going.  Looking at the time right now, he’s probably still about an hour from home!  I later saw a photo he’d sent my brother, taken from inside the cockpit, while driving on the gravel road.

Ah, youth! :-D

Meanwhile, the market went on as planned, in the snow.  Which, thankfully, did melt away, but it never got warmer than 6C.  Much to my surprise, not only did we get a decent number of people coming to the market, but I ended up making my best sales day, since I first started selling my crochet at markets!  I made a nice dent in my old inventory, so I will be working on new stuff over the winter.  I had several people asking me about other markets I might be in.  When I explained I’d only been back for less than a year and this was my first one – and only of the year – I got lots of encouragement to try others in the area.  Apparently, no one else does stuff like I’ve got available.  Which is interesting, since I sold mostly hats in various styles, with some moebius wraps and high visibility items, made using reflective yarn, thrown in.

My younger daughter came along to help out, (she’s such a sweetheart!!) and she was even able to take part in a Pokemon Go Community Day event.  We were in a park on the side of a highway, yet there were still three Pokemon stops in walking distance.  Two of them, churches. :-D

I really didn’t know what to expect with this market.  There was everything from honey, jams and jellies, to garage sale type stuff, to a freezer full of roasting chickens, to a riding mower and heavy tools.  I was really tempted by the earth drill, but I already have a post hole digger that will do what I need.  There was even an antique wooden bed frame.  Oh, and a Hutterite family had two trailers of stuff in the parking lot; they couldn’t get into the area the other vendors were set up.  It is completely surrounded by trees, too close together to drive a vehicle through.  We got at least some shelter.  This family was in the full brunt of the wind, though they had their own trailers that provided a bit of shelter.  I never did get a chance to see what they had, but the family members I spoke to said they did well.  I think everyone did rather well.

All in all, it was a good – if chilly! – day.

The Re-Farmer