Surprise Melody Flintkote. Part Two
Copyright© 2019 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 59
Your normal Farmer’s Market doesn’t have live Panpipe music ... from Peru.
Your normal Farmer’s Market doesn’t have a refrigerated van with hanging beef halves ... cut and wrapped as you like it. Or a local butcher who grinds your burger while you watch. Twice a season the butcher features locally raised buffalo cut Native style. No bones. Your normal Farmer’s Market doesn’t have buffalo ... or goat ... or emu ... and today was the day.
Your normal Farmer’s Market doesn’t have fresh smoked whitefish, salmon or lake trout, live clams or giant crayfish ... cooked to order ... on the spot.
Your normal Farmer’s Market doesn’t have yachties from out of state ... or out of country ... who spend seven or eight thousand dollars shopping in one go.
Your normal Farmer’s Market doesn’t have 20 different kinds craft beer by the keg ... delivered to your boat, home or party.
I’ll tell you right now ... if you can buy it in the supermarket produce department ... you can get it cheaper, fresher and washed at Ludington’s Farmer’s Market Friday only from May to September.
Even if your Market has ALL that ... they don’t have the Mendoza Food truck. Ludington only.
My senses were overwhelmed ... I gave up.
“Somebody shop for me, please. I’ll pay.”
I had figured the cute little trailer we hauled behind the golf cart would have plenty of room. Nope.
Missy showed up with her older sister, “Bea,” by way of introduction, “Said she’d shop.”
“But I need to look at your boat first,” Bea said.
“Missy?”
“Yes ma’am. Come on Bea.”
They were gone half an hour.
“That’s quite the boat, well stocked with canned goods. What man shopped?”
David tootled his fingers.
“Hello, David. That looks like your work. But I didn’t find the rice and dried beans.”
“Aft ... in the sugar-scoops.”
“I’m surprised you didn’t stock ship’s biscuit and salt horse.”
She turned to me, “How much for how long and where?”
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