Greetings :)
Remember my goal of Smiling Meditation this morning when my alarm went off? Well, let’s just say that it didn’t go as I hoped…
Instead I found myself running 45 minutes late and sprawled across the floor with a bruised knee.
I guess I should explain.
I couldn’t fall sleep last night so I reset the alarm for 45 minutes later than usual, skipping my AM blog post and eating breakfast VOO in the car. I really didn’t want to, but when it was 1:45am and my peepers were still wide open, I knew I had to sacrifice some precious morning time.
When I finally did pull my bum out of bed I was in no mood to smile. Either was Eric. We were not a pleasant pair when the alarm went off.
It was one of those mornings and we were rushing around.
In a desperate moment to get the car packed up so we could rush to the market, I decided that flying would be much quicker than walking. I don’t mess around here. I proceeded to fly across the room, tripping over the cash box. Business cards went everywhere. I have a bruise on my left knee, but I think my ego got the worst of it. That is, until Eric put his own bad mood aside and offered his hand to help me off the ground. This is what I married him for…to scrape me up when I fall apart. Metaphorically and literally, I suppose.
Moral of the story: It is bad karma to skip a planned meditation. The universe will kick you in the ass.
[I bet this butterfly meditated this AM!]
Despite the morning drama, our last market day before taking August off went WONDERFUL! The weather was the best it has been yet- cool, crisp, and sunny. There was no humidity and I actually had shivers in the morning. It was perfect market weather and the market was very busy (especially for a long weekend). We sold everything except about 10 Glo Bars, so we came very close to selling out! Lots of people were stocking up for the month of August. ;)
I also made some Carrot Cake muffins and those sold out really fast.
I was making those muffins until 11pm last night!
The goodies I brought home…
This tomato in the middle (below) is a Japanese tomato! New to me and very exciting.
These long, slender ones are Purple Russian tomatoes…also new to me!!
Both of these guys have green seeds on the inside!
And also a pint of organic blueberries. I think they are even more delicious than last week!
I promptly froze a bunch because I was sitting over the kitchen sink and going into a Blueberry COMA.
If you thought it wasn’t possible to get a tummy ache from too many blueberries, you thought wrong.
Dinner was a spin-off of Basil Tomato Scallops with Homemade Croutons!
I added 1 zucchini to the casserole tonight. It was good. However, the casserole turned out very runny and I think that was due to how watery my tomatoes were. The bread turned to complete mush! It was not cool.
The first time I made it, I used grape tomatoes so most of the liquid stayed inside the tomato and allowed the casserole to remain semi-dry and casserole-like.
If I were to make this casserole again, I would use grape or cherry tomatoes only.
We still devoured it though. Don’t you worry!
I think Eric and I might go antique hunting tomorrow and I am pumped! This further convinces me that we skipped our thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties, and jumped right into the antique hunting age of 79. I’m not sure how I made the jump from rubbing shoulders with twenty-somethings at Ikea to antique hunting with the Friday night Bingo crowd, but I kinda like it.
Hey, just be glad that this type of morning isn’t the norm! It is for me, thats for sure. I find that even if everything is organized and waiting, outfit and all, I still can’t make it out the door without falling on my feet and eating breakfast in a rush to school.
I’m glad you had a good last day at the farmers market. You deserve it :)
Sold out all except 10 bars?!! WOW Angela! That is so impressive. Great job. I’m sorry your morning was so flustery but you’ve got some time off from the market now, right? Sleep well tonight!
I have a summer Israeli couscous dish I will be posting later this week that I think you will LOVE. I think it’s adorable that you are going antique hunting. Do what you like and live it up! :)
Wow, those meals look fantastically delicious!!
I love all of the interesting things you can find at the farmer’s market that would never make it to grocery store shelves, at least not around here. It’s the best way to try new produce and learn about entirely new (delicious!) foods.
your dinner looks great and those grape tomatoes look yummy
I know what you mean about the blueberries….my 5 year old son can polish off at least 2 pint of them at one sitting! Then he sits on the pot for a while. {I have a kid that craves fruit, and a lot of it} Glad you had a great day. Have fun antique shopping, I just did that myself in Healdsburg, CA! FUN.
MMM, those carrot cake muffins look great!! I know I’d buy them if I were at the market. I might have asked this already, but do your send your Globars to other farmer’s markets or only the one that you go to sell at personally?
Just this current market :)
I love looking at Antiques! A friend of mine owns a little antique shop in northern MN and I love going there to look at the old things! There is so much history and beauty in old things. I hope you find some good stuff!
I do that too, where I try to save time by flying around like a maniac — if I would just be patient and take my time I would be fine, but I try to do too much and end up LOSING time as a result.
I always wondered how early the sellers who work the farmers market woke up?
Glad you had a great day, despite the rough start :)
The tomatoes are so pretty they don’t even look real! They look like little sparkly ornaments. :)
Congrats on being done with the Market!! Enjoy the blissful weekends of summer that are left, they are so precious:)
kudos to eric for being kind…and those tomatoes are interesting–do they taste differently compared with the usual tomatoes? :)
i’m afraid of antiques because they say every furniture has a story and the spirit of the previous owner goes with the furniture…oooh…not trying to scare you though :)
Farmer’s Markets are just the best. Unfortuntely, there is nothing like that where l llve now…no culture :(…oh well, it is what it is right now. I’d actually take your morning over waking up every morning still feeling sick from all the food consumed a mere few hours earlier :(
A husband’s sole purpose is to scrape his wife off the ground…definitely. I’m glad you found one of the good ones Angela!
I’m so glad your had a good day at the market today!
Cute tomatoes! Sorry about your knee.
Smiling and meditating on a weekend morning or a morning where I don’t have to be at work at 7AM sounds absolutely fantastic. I’m going to try it.
oh man, what a fall! i haven’t had a bruise on my knee in ages, but i remember well enough to know that it’s NOT fun. at least the market went well! those baby tomatoes are the cutest and most beautiful colors :)
Sounds like a really hectic morning, but congrats on almost selling out! :) sounds like market business was really successful this weekend!
+ love that butterfly, it’s so beautiful. (random? :) )
Way to be flexible with the schedule! I go nuts when something gets in the way of my morning routine. And sooo frustrating to not be able to fall asleep!
At least you had a great day at the market! Great way to end before the month off :)