50

[sleepwalker41]

So it seems I turned 50 in April. It didn't even hurt. In fact, I think 40 was a bigger deal. And that was no big deal. Obviously I haven't been on fire to pen my thoughts about the whole thing, since all these many weeks have passed.

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[sleepwalker41]

The Farmers' Market I had intended on taking part in is the small one in Hartland just 3 miles east of us. Over the winter/spring months, I checked out different kinds of packaging/containers, found out how to print labels with office software, took a Cottage Food Law course and wrote up ingredient lists for the various baked goods I figured I could make (cinnamon rolls, peanut butter rolls, chocolate sweet rolls, cinnamon bread, lebkuchen, butterhorns, etc.). Trouble is: since the markets began in May, I have not had one Saturday where I would have had the time to prepare items, the energy to do so, or even a free Saturday with nothing going on where I could have set up at the market. The funny thing about having a job where I work every other weekend is that every open weekend is taken up with some other kind of plan :). I just blithely assumed I'd be able to prepare things in the mornings after work and then bake and package all Friday night into Saturday morning, and then go set up for the 9 to 1 market. It hasn't worked out yet. I'm hopeful I'll be able to catch one in September or October.