Friday, May 24, 2013

The Farmers' Market and Crab for Supper!

Sister Roxy and I headed out to downtown Olympia late this morning to check out the Farmers' Market. There were lots of plants for sale -- some beautiful tomato plants loaded with blooms; some gorgeous hanging baskets and all kinds of annuals. There were a couple of vendors selling good-looking -- and great-smelling pastries and breads; there were the usual soap, wood and honey sellers. Roxy bought some kohlrabi plants but couldn't find any lemongrass.

From there we went to Olympia Seafood Company and bought some shelled crab for my planned pasta crab salad and bought a couple of nice large crabs for dinner tonight. Roxy thought the $9 per pound was a bit high, but I told her I hadn't had good fresh Dungeness crab for a couple of years! (And it was good! The guy at the fish store said they had just come out of the steamer about an hour before...)

Next was a stop at the very busy Post Office to send off a baby blanket, made by Sister Roxy, to Ethan Richard, the son of our Godson, who was born in Moses Lake's Samaritan Hospital this morning. There have been lots of fun pictures of the newborn fellow on Facebook. So fun to get to see him right away!

Our last stop was at a place called Shipwreck Beads, surely the largest bead store I have ever seen! Roxy was looking for some tiny beads to add texture to one of her quilted wall hangings. I did find some nice presentation boxes for my squash blossom necklaces. I've been looking for some time as they both came in just nice cardboard boxes. The contemporary necklace and earring set fit into one of the boxes just fine, but unfortunately, the other box still wasn't big enough for the antique necklace.


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