A day at the market

I am sure you have read about the spraying water on strawberries when the weather gets to 32 degrees. Well, here they are doing so. You can just barely see a rainbow in this picture. It was after 8 am and they spray the fields until the sun is warming. This is also done to the fruit trees. You can see the ice on the weeds and the moss hanging from the trees.

(click on the pictures and they should enlarge.) We saw several fields where they were spraying and a fruit grove where the trees had ice hanging from the branches.

Interesting

The cities have asked residents to turn off their water pumps during the night. The farmers pump over 1500 gallons / well ( 15 wells on one farm ) a minute over their fields. 8,000 acres of berries. So a lot of water being used. Did not want wells

to go dry during the night. Some berry fields have sweet onions growing at the edge of the fields. They are sweet and good.

We dressed for the day. Digging out our winter coats and my "long jons" to wear under my jeans. Most every one had on gloves and little children were wrapped in fleece blankets their parents had bought from one of the vendors.

The Flea Market!!! Mowers and generators here. it was cold this am and not the usual amount of vendors.

many Spanish speaking vendors and persons buying. Interesting to see. Do not know if they are all Mexican, Cuban or where they are from. And excuse me if I am mixed up on which Nationalities speak Spanish.

STUFF! What ever you want you can find. Almost. One vendor had Cd's for sale. With a sign, "If you do not like nudity, don't look!" And I do not remember seeing these before.

Pipes. Not the gentleman pipes with real tobacco. But water pipes and other paraphernalia that goes with the water pipes. some are quite pretty.

This couple is from Blufton, Indiana.

They have been coming down for several years. Sell dishes, pots and pans to tools, old and fairly new. How about a hog snout clipper? And you find a least one vendor that has a gadget that no one knows what it is.

and that white haired person in the blue coat is the back of me. I had red ear muffs on, but they are not showing

Fruits and vegetable vendors at various places thru out the market.

This man has hot peppers. you can buy a basket full of sweet peppers for $1.00. green, red and yellow, 3 for a dollar. Sometimes 4 for a dollar.

Here I am looking at red onions and tomatoes. Most things are one dollar.

pineapples two weeks ago were 2 for $3. A large compact head of cabbage, $1. nice and crisp.

need a vacuum cleaner? he has them. There are a few vendors selling packaged food and one had a traveling hot dog stand. Usually the only thing I buy at flea markets is fresh kettle corn. (food to eat at the moment.) Also depends on the flea market. There is usually someone on a golf cart going thru the crowds, selling drinks and snacks. I noticed that it was the vendors that usually bought from them. We did find two pieces of silver. slim pickings for silver at this market. One man did have a complete 4 piece place setting for 8. with 2 serving spoons. Nice box. Rogers

Wanted $75. We left it there. it wasn't on our list of highly collectible. Don't know if we would spend that much anyway. At least not all at once.

Home to a crock pot of soup. haven't hit the good flavor I usually have, but it was hot and ready to eat. Time to spell check and have Ernie proof read this so it can be posted. See you jkc