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For the first time ever, I managed to both remember it was farmers market day and get out of the house in time to get to the Burke Farmers Market; granted, I didn't get there until half an hour before they closed, but still. (Why are so many farmers markets locally scheduled from like 8-noon on Tuesday mornings when people, y'know, have to go to work?) I took $20 with me, and returned with a big bunch of radishes, three cucumbers, a bit more than a pint of yellow cherry tomatoes (well, somewhat less than a pint now OM NOM NOM), four bell peppers of the purple and yellow varieties, good-sized green and white acorn squash, and a wedge of chipotle cheddar cheese. I passed on the apples this time; this is the time of year that you can drive out towards Shenandoah and buy apples at the local roadside stands, so you get both tasty locally-grown apples *and* a road trip. The remaining $4 or so from my $20 bill went into the Obama/Biden donations jar, so a bumper sticker is also technically part of my haul. Let's see if people can refrain from vandalizing my car this time.

It is a glorious day today; if you're local, you should really consider heading outside. I think I'm going to do some housecleaning until C. wakes up (or I wake him up) and then maybe go to Burke Lake or some other spot I can putter around outdoors.

Two things completely unrelated to the farmers market or even each other:

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The apples at the farmers market weren't local? We got a big bag of jonathan and jongold apples for a pie, and the vendor was the grower. I think the bag was $2.75 :-D

Our farmers market is also held on Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon, and the West Lafayette one (which we haven't made it to yet) is Wednesday afternoons from 2-6, which annoys me because I can't get there, either.

Oh yeah, they were local apples. They were kind of expensive though ($2.75 would've gotten at most a pound and a half), and the vendor I was looking at was out of Honeycrisp. At those prices, it was about the same as buying the locally-grown stuff at Wegmans.

There are a few good-sized farmers markets on the weekends here; Burke is on Saturday and the Dupont Circle (DC) market is on Sunday. Burke ended up being much closer to local than I thought it was; it turned out to only be about 15 minutes away.