Dreary Market

If it’s the Farmers Market, it’s raining. This has been the rainiest market season ever. Rainy and cold, 57 degrees again today.

Rain and 57 degrees doesn’t stop Steve Graham from wearing shorts and flip flops.

That’s Rand on the right. He’s a member of the Crazy Men in Shorts Club and is thinking about making a “Crazy Men in Shorts” T-shirt.

Rand and Tracy with their haul for the morning. In that box are cinnamon rolls – as requested by their son. On his way out the door, the boy told him, “Get some cinnamon rolls, Dad. The big ones.”

Tracey Graham pulls a breakfast burrito out of the crock pot. Occasionally she makes sausage, bacon and vegetarian burritos with all local ingredients and sells them as a fundrasier for the Farmers Market.

“It’s Fanestil bacon,” she said, “and sausage from Jim Wallace and next time you’re in Country Mart, thank them for donating the cheese and the tortillas.”

BTW, the burritos were good. I got two of them, breakfast for me, breakfast for Dave.

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Today is also the Great American Market, a flea market-type event in downtown Emporia. I had my hands full and didn’t make it around the corner to see what was happening on Commercial Street, but if it ever stops raining, I might go down there.

Later, from 4-8 p.m. is the International Foods dinner at ESU. There you can buy entrees, side dishes and desserts prepared by ESU’s international students. The food is always great! Because of the rain, I’m guessing it will be held in the basement of the Memorial Union, the old Hornet’s Nest room and out in back toward Wooster Lake.