So how did things go on Thursday?
Breakfast
Eggs from Loyd Family Farms (Williamsville), with colby cheese from from Ropp Jersey Cheese (Normal).
Lunch
Green beans from Voss Pecans (Carlyle), strawberries from Livesprings Berries & Produce (Chandlerville), challah bread and a chocolate chip cookie from Central Illinois Event Catering (Springfield). I also brought along a local salad, but I didn't have any salad dressing, so I saved it for another day.
Farmers' Market
Speaking of being out of something, when I got the the Illinois Products Farmers' Market, I realized that I was out of cash! Thus, "Farmers' Market Rule #1: Remember to bring cash." I had spent all of my cash on Wednesday at the Old Capitol Farmers' Market and had forgotten to get more. (It was a bit of a flashback to one of my very first locavore outings (in April 2008), when I showed up at the James Family Farm (in Sherman) to look into buying eggs and then realized that all I had was my debit card!)
On top of having no cash, it was wet, overcast, cool -- not exactly what I'd been hoping for after all of the rainy days we've been having! As a result, I wound up not staying very long.
However, it wasn't a completely wasted trip. Todd Vincent and family, of the Vincent Family Farm, were there!
He said he'd had a booth at the farmers' market a couple of years before, didn't have one last year, and then decided that very morning to get a booth at the fairgrounds. (Incidentally, if you'd like a pet bunny, his daughters were selling some.) We chatted for a bit about replacing septic systems, then I announced that, since I had no money, I was going somewhere warmer -- home!
Dinner
Remember how our son was sick Wednesday, so we just threw a frozen pizza in the oven? Well, when I got home on Thursday, our son was fit as a fiddle, but now Dawn was sick. Well, not really sick, but with a splitting sinus headache, probably triggered by the weather. She'd been trying to take a nap for about 2 hours, but Lando, being a typical 5-year-old boy, would come into the bedroom every few minutes, saying "Hey, Mom! Look at this!" or "I'm hungry!" or "Are you getting up now?"
So we had pizza again. We suck.
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