The last couple of weeks for me have been a little stressful for different reasons. Then at the market this week it was so windy things blew completely off of my table breaking a few of my items, one of my stands went from the front of the table, to the back then on the ground all in one gust of wind. The wind would come and blow things off my table, and as soon as the wind died down I would pick up my things and place them back on their stands. I ended up putting some things back into my car, instead of having them on display. It would be fine for a few minutes, the wind would stop.
Then, Whoosh! There it was again, each time the wind blew it was stronger than the last time. Even though I had weights on the bottom of my tent to hold it down they didn’t seem to work well. Myself and the other vendors were constantly grabbing the legs of their tents to give them more stability. I thought for sure it must have been a small hurricane. Some other people that were at the market would help the vendors by helping hold on to the legs. It was wild.
We had really bad wind at the market a couple of weeks ago, but last Saturday was extremely windy, and cold.
There are four letter words at the market which could be considered as swear words the way they can affect our market: Heat (too much of it) Hail, Snow, Rain, Cold, and of course Wind. Then there are the larger words which could also be considered to be swear words at our market although so far they have not happened yet (lucky for us,) Hurricane (felt like that on Saturday) Tornado, Cyclone, Typhoons, Monsoon, Thunder, Lighting, Blizzard, and so many others.
By the end of the day I felt tired and stressed and possibly a little defeated, after all it is hard to fight Mother Nature. There are more than a few things that I will have to fix or remake from the damage the wind had caused to my items. As I packed up my car, I was actually glad it was the end of the day and time to go home and put my feet up and catch up on some shows I haven’t seen for awhile.
Right at the end, Sam, the lady that sells flowers and some veggies who has her tent beside me, gave me a bouquet of flowers. It was wonderful, I told her
” Thank you! You just made my day.”
She really did, it was one of those small things that make you thankful, and grateful.
Thank you again Sam, the flowers are sitting on my table, making me smile when I look at them.
