Saturday, November 13, 2010

Bazaar!

How many out there have gone to their local holiday bazaars, in this case a Christmas Bazaar? But other holidays are represented although somewhat less expressively.
Ours at the Cultural Center is a tradition here for forty years!
Of course we haven’t been coming to them for all those years but as many as I can remember since we have been living here.

This year’s due to the bad economy I expected for it to be rather small and not that crowded.
Negative of me I must admit, but I like to think I am a realist. To my pleasant surprise it was bigger than ever and it was throughout the facility from end to end, even outside!
The parking situation was basically waiting for someone to pull out of a spot so you could pull into it, and we got lucky with a handicapped space just for us towards the back of the facility. I did try to get feedback from the vendors and it was mixed on how they were doing. We did buy two things a plant and some dry bean soup that they gave samples of the prepared version for all to try, after we concluded that we both would enjoy it I made the small purchase.

We arrived around eleven thirty in the morning and stayed until after two!
Yes, we ate lunch there too; a meatball sub for Hubby and fish and chips and salad for me, coffee for him and my own bottled water for me, it is commonplace there so no one feels like they shouldn’t.
I did give Hubby most of my chips, and our whole lunch was only about twelve bucks for the two of us, pretty good, eh, less than a drive thru and better too?

When we arrived home we were mostly pooped and so we relaxed. I always wonder how I get so tired when I am using my mobility scooter but I do.
And so we turned on our PBS stations just in time for some gardening shows we enjoy.
After the first one I began making the soup we had just purchased at the bazaar and took out the baguette from the freezer and prepared to make a salad.
Whenever we eat a big or heavy lunch we have decided to have a lighter supper.
The soup had alternate instructions and so I tried them a vegetarian choice of adding stewed tomatoes which I keep in my pantry for my own soups and other such things, and adding in a diced potato which we always seem to have.
It called for canned carrots but I had fresh and it did not call for scallions or garlic or onions but I put them in my machine and then gently microwaved them for only two minute in extra virgin olive oil.
The whole project took only an hour from prep to eating; perfect end to a perfectly happy fine day!

Well, the day isn’t over really, is it?
And we have two movies waiting in the wings for our evening entertainment tonight; Letters to Juliet and The Ghost Writer.


On that busy schedule for fun and excitement, well not so much for the rest of you I suppose but for me… Happy night to all and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

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