Gotta love the Farmers Market!

We were supposed to go to the zoo today, but we all got waylaid. The phone company was supposed to call me, and I had to wait.

They never called.

Since I don't like waiting around, we are changing plans.

We are going to the Farmers Market!

There is a nice close little one near where I live. It is 2 min away from where the girls have swimming lessons. My secret plan is to take the Butterbean and Mugsy to swimming, and then KiKi and I will get dolled up in the sling, and go shopping!

Last year I bought a huge onion. I mean huge. Three of my fists big!

You know what it cost me? $1.

I remember how awesome it smelled in my basket as we rode home on the bus. The scent of that shiny globe wafted through the bus. It wasn't a make your eyes water smell....it was a make your tummy rumbley smell. Slightly sweet, pure, like it had taste to it. Almost like you could just bite into it. The difference between local organic veggies and the kind you buy at Safeway is huge. Just like the size of that onion.

I also bought an Ostrich egg.

I saved up my pennies for that fun buy. $15 for an egg sounds like a horrible price, until you notice that it is the size of a baby's head.

Those eggs are hard to open! I wanted to save the beautiful shell, so I decided to poke a hole in the end and shake out the eggy bits.

That is when I found out you can't "poke" an ostrich egg.

I ended up getting a sharp paring knife, and twisting the end into the shell. I had to slowly shave away bits of shell until I had a nice pencil size hole. I put a straw into the hole, and blew. The egg filled my mixing bowl! Filled it! I stirred it a bit, and froze about 2/3rds of the egg. Then I made scrambled eggs.

I have a family of 5, but half that egg was saved for the next day. It was much more filling than a chicken egg.

I wonder what I will find today?