Farmer's Market

Bet you didn't know Phoenix has a Farmer's Market. Yep. Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning. It's not as big or nearly as weird as the Saturday Market in Eugene, OR but it is fun. You can get free range chicken eggs for only $5/dozen! I'm sorry, but the hens can sit in little cages before I'll pay that much for eggs. I did get some really tasty tomatillo salsa though. Had samples of organic chocolate, ate a tamal, picked up a book at the book exchange. Had more samples, but not the granola.

This is Shannon. She makes "hand-crafted ice cream and seasonal sorbets" using as many local ingredients as possible. Yummy! And the ice cream is pretty good, too.

Fresh, expensive veggies!

Handmade soap!

Organic chocolate!

Salsa! When this guy says hot, he means it.

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Random farm babe.

Around town

I live about a half a mile from the new Mesa Riverview shopping center. It's not really a mall because the stores are all outside. It's too big for me to think of it as a strip mall. So I guess it's just a shopping center. Anyway, they have some interesting public art there.

Here's a cute little statue of a game of leap frog.

Why statues of frogs in Mesa? I don't know either.

But it is interesting.

Plus there's Humpty Dumpty. I suspect his nose has been rubbed a few times for luck or something. It's too shiny!

Riley Elden Warner

The largest influence in my life left this veil of tears today. In the words of David Gates:

"I would give anything I own,

I'd give up my life, my heart, my home,

Yes I would give everything I own,

Just to have you back again."

Goodbye, Dad. We will meet again.

Happy Birthday!

Tomorrow the youngest of my brood turns 19. My how time flies. I regret that I don't know him better than I do. My fault, and my loss. Anyway, happy birthday, Curtis! I hope you are doing well. I love you and miss you.