I got in my car after feeding Baron his *snack* and then taking him outside to let him pee, and drove across the street to pick up Diane. We headed for the Farmers Market with a short stop at my bank so I could get some cash. Cee called me just as I was getting back in the car and said she was there already but where were we? I told her we were on our way. It was just three more blocks from my bank so I think we shocked her when we got there.
It's not a large place but there was certainly a heck of a lot of variety of produce. Cee and I decided we would share a couple things (tomatoes and some apples) since the amount we bought was more than either of us could use up before it would go bad. I bought some peaches that I am going to make a cobbler out of. It's been years since I made one for the Beast. I'll do that on Saturday after Cee and I get back from lunch with Diane. Diane is a sushi lover and she loves the sushi at the restaurant that Cee and I like to go to for lunch. It's a Japanese restaurant that has a big variety of foods (even hamburgers).
I also brought home some sweet potatoes (and had one with my dinner tonight), two HUGE onions and a medium size watermelon. The apples we bought were recommended to us for making baked apples. The farmer had several varieties of apples so we know who has a big orchard, don't we?
On our way home, Diane and I both looked to see if the people with the pecan trees had their sign out. Nope. They sell them by the bag full, shelled. I know they will have more in a month or so and Diane and I agreed to contact each other when we saw the sign out again. I am going to make my nut cake (it's like a fruit cake without any citron in it...it's got LOTS of nuts). I may even make two and take one of them and soak it with rum. You don't actually soak it but you add a shot glass of it about every week. It turns out wonderful. Even using brandy instead of rum is great. Each cake takes four cups of chopped pecans. Buying them from the orchard growers is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying pecans from the stores.
The chickens have been putting themselves to bed the last few days. It's usually shortly before 7pm but they left a sentinel out to watch for me today. She squawked and they came running towards me then followed me back into the coop. I gathered up the eggs and gave them their corn and they were happy. I locked up the coop and came back into the house. As soon as I came in, Baron was standing next to the table, waiting and he barked at me. He wanted his dinner. After I fed him, he went and laid down in my computer room.
He wasn't in my room when I got up to get some more ice water and that was a surprise. I can usually hear him but it was like he tip-toed out of the room. I checked on him and he's asleep on his mattress (a doggie one). He's finally gotten used to the idea that I don't go to bed as early as the Beast does so he doesn't do his *time for bed* bark for me. You should hear him nag at the Beast on those nights when the Beast stays up later than normal. Baron will finally go lay down on his mattress, facing the Beast, and he stares at him. Just stares and stares. Sometimes, the Beast gives up and turns off his football game or whatever he's watching then goes to bed.
The first couple days that the Beast was gone, Baron tried that with me only he was laying to my right, on the rug in my computer room. He'd whimper to try getting my attention but I knew what he was trying to do. I just ignored him until he finally gave up and went to his bed. I'm not letting a dog boss me around.....LOL.
Time to get this posted. Remember I love you all. Thank you for reading my posts. ***Hugs***
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