How does one get a day of total enjoyment during her summer of discontent? She goes downtown to the farmer's market with a dear, wonderful friend! The sun stayed away, which was nice. But the humidity made up for the sun's absence. No matter! We had fun anyway.
I didn't take a single shot of the fruits and veggies. I think that was because I was so busy filling up my biggest canvas bag with so many of them that I could hardly carry it back to the car! But everything was so beautiful!
I also didn't take pictures of the French bakery we stopped by because the lady doesn't like that. Nor did I take pictures of our lunch. But that was because we were hungry and thirsty and I was all about the eating and drinking more than the picture taking.
We saw some performers and I took pictures of them---the break dancers:
And the singers:
And the lone musicians:
The art is always pleasant to view.
Especially when it's local art that has been a part of the culture for well over 100 years:
There are always dogs galore at the farmer's market. (Some of the vendors leave small coolers filled with water for them- which I LOVE! I will favor one of those stands over the others.)
Even those who can't get around like they used to---
But mostly, it's just the conversation, the laughs and the time spent with a friend.
It's been a full week of cooler temps which made walking so very pleasurable! We ended our week with a trip downtown to the farmer's market. And, next week, we'll be meeting a new interest of DoodleBug's. One of the male persuasion. Should be interesting. AND Deanie will be home for the weekend! Woot!
A word of warning- there are quite a lot of photos on this post!
AND NOW, here's my week in a:
I got Birdie's package mailed off and she's already received it. It's a birthday present from DoodleBug and me. BUT Birdie is not allowed to open it until Friday- the 14th- her actual birthday! You know, so she will have something to unwrap on her special day. This is the very first year that Birdie has not been at home for her birthday. *sniff* She will turn 23 years old. In Texas. Without us. Twenty freaking hours away from home. Stupid grad school.
Hubs is going along nicely with my no meat and gluten free trial. Although he did say something like, "I sure would like some meat every once in a while," the other day. So I made a recipe that Biz had on her blog called Poppy's Chicken Brunswick Stew. It was fab! Hubs also asked me to pick up some bread for him the other day. I asked him what, exactly, he thought gluten free meant...no worries! I found a gluten free bread mix so now he gets homemade bread!
And this is my first attempt at homemade gluten free bread. Hubs LOVES it!
I LOVE autumn! It's my favorite time of year because of many things--football, the changing leaves, the cooler temps, the cooking/baking, the holidays---just everything. One more thing I love about fall is that I get to use the hot water knob in the shower for lovely warm showers. A good, relaxing, enjoyable, nice, drainthehotwaterheater long shower makes me feel so stress free. Plus, the steam fogs up the mirror and makes it easy to see something like this:
Yes- Hubs sometimes leaves me a message on the bathroom mirror---can you see it?
Some of my summer flowers are on the road to demise. But not this little gem! I need to plant some fall flowers- soon!
I had to make the dreaded Wal-Mart trip this week. Tucker loves to find 'his' bag when I come back. He does this when I return from the grocery store too. Silly pup! Wait, maybe that should be spoiled pup!
He puts his face in every bag until he finds the one with his treats. And yes, he gets something every time.
DoodleBug, HannahBanana and I went downtown yesterday to the Farmer's Market at Marion Square. FUN! Careful, lots of photos follow:
There was music. Which would have been great- if that guy hadn't been singing.
There were a crap ton of people.
And apples...
and tomatoes...
and eggplant and peppers...
and pretty flowers...
and jars of homemade yummy goodness...
(we brought two jars home for Hubs but I noticed after we got home that the stupid woman gave me TWO WRONG JARS)
and Charleston goodies...
and nutty goodness--seriously, go visit these young ladies at nuttygoodness.net. The one on the left is a friend of DoodleBug's but they are both delightful young ladies--I love that they are so young and so industrious! Check them out!
We bought these for Hubs!
There were more apples...
and peaches...
and peppers...
and beans and peanuts and cucumbers and okra...
And there were plenty of arts and crafts such as sweet grass baskets...
and purses...
and paintings and sketches...
and these little...thingys...
and jewelry...
Tucker found a friend...
who just loved him so gently...
DoodleBug actually knows this little sweetie pie...
who told us what her doggie says--"woofwoof!"
And on the way back to the car we saw plenty of bikes at the College of Charleston.
The bikes in black&white...yeah, I don't know...
OH! And Hubs' cousin (whom I A.D.O.R.E.) had her second daughter this week!
Aren't they just the sweetest, most adorable family you've ever seen?! I love these guys so much! Ellen has a blog too- you can visit her at Baby Meets City! (I might have stolen borrowed this photo from BigDaddy's fb page...)
AND I won the Autumn giveaway at Katherine's Corner! YAY! I'll post about that when I receive it so I can show y'all a picture!
Being a transplant to the low-country of SC for 31 years is still not long enough to be called a ‘benyeh.’ If I stay until I’m dead I’ll probably go a ‘comeyeh’ since I am, originally, ‘from off’ (which is the upstate but, rules you know). By day I take care of my sweet little granddaughter, Baby M and do all those things I did when I was a SAHM raising four daughters which has translated to, ‘by day, I am exhausted.’ By night I blog, blog, blog, and blog some more or I sleep, depending on my level of exhaustion (do they still make Geritol?). I have a very unhealthy addiction to sweets (nearly any kind will do) and all comfort foods not covered under the ‘sweets’ category. I’m known for speaking my mind so, if you don’t want to know, don’t ask me. I love to find the humor in my empty nest life. I live life hard and smack into that brick wall almost daily because I’ve always had to learn the hard way. Why change now? I’m so glad you’ve come to laugh with me as I do this middle age, empty nest thing like a BOSS!
