It was a fair and sunny day, a rarity here lately. When I arrived at the park 45 minutes til market, there was 1 vendor and no tractors to be seen.
An hour later...
We had 13 vendors, ranging from wild-caught Gulf shrimp to local unhomogenized milk in old-fashioned glass bottles to dressed quail to pumpkins to fresh bread to produce and fried pies and crafts and... not bad for a town of 3500!
Not to mention 10 antique tractors that were all so loved that they looked brand-new. Next year I am going to do an Ugliest Tractor contest to get some variety.
The tractors were a huge hit with the kids though-- every child there sat on every tractor, delighting their parents and the tractor owners, who tend to be elderly men who get a bit giddy at the sight of their beloved bringing pleasure to small children.
We had some live music, a potluck party table, and a fair amount of customers.
(annaliese very somberly learning the harmonica)I can only hope everyone had as much fun as I did.
1 comment:
Nice! Tractors and pumpkins were everywhere! Hahaha! The women and the children were busy dealing with those huge pumpkins while the men’s attentions were merely focused on those cool antique tractors. :’D
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