The snow is flying

As I sit here in my warm living room thinking of all the things I need to get accomplished, I look outside and notice the snow is starting to come down. We pretty much had all the snow melted away last week when another storm came through Sunday night. It didn't bring a lot of snow but the winds topped 40mph which created blizzard conditions. The wind left behind several large drifts in our driveway and unfortunately our bucket for our loader tractor has been sent off to be rebuilt. If the snow doesn't last very long today I need to make it into the grain elevator in town. My neighbor bought two corn stoves this summer and now needs more corn to heat them. Our truck auger is froze up and stuck in a snow bank so we will have to leave the corn on a wagon for now and cover it with a tarp until it warms up a little and we can thaw out the auger.

Trying Something New

Several of us vendors from the Thursday market in Tipton, Iowa decided to try something different this winter. We had plenty of produce left over after our regular season ended in October, so we thought we'd bring the market inside. October was a miserable month with rain six Thursdays in a row. We were glad to move indoors. Although business is much slower during the winter months, I'm glad I did this because it enables me to remain in contact with some of our customers throughout the winter months and gives us a chance to get together once a week still and actually visit (something we couldn't do during the regular season because we're usually to busy to talk to each other).