weekend pictures

this was friday- chiles and tomatoes in the afternoon sun.


and this is an hour later on friday, when we all decided to go to the bar. for some reason i though taking a picture of our feet was compelling at the time....


and here's the tent coming apart yesterday- cause when calamity strikes, we fillmers grab the camera first, then figure out what to do. in this case, though, there was nothing i could do but stand around and watch cause i wasn't about to try to grab onto one of the flapping straps, lest i get carried up into the air (which i think was entirely possible in those winds- imagine me hanging on for dear life while being tossed around in the wind) or thwacked on the head with one of the buckles.

in the end we took the roof off the tent and shut down the farm stand for the day. tent failure and cooler door destruction=close the damn farm stand. soon after the tent started falling apart i was attempting to open the cooler door very carefully, but it only took two inches for the wind to catch the door and blow it open, almost knocking me over (but thanks to my catlike reflexes i managed to get out of the way). the hinges broke with that gust, though- one of them snapped in half and the other's rivets busted- so that's when i decided that i wasn't doing any more work and went to the bike shop to have a moment out of the wind to collect myself before going back out to deal with the mess. there were cherry tomatoes everywhere, price signs and tent straps littering the field, and fifty cases of peaches waiting to go in the doorless cooler, along with all the stuff they didn't sell at market because of the winds. two vendors lost their tents there, and we lost one wash tent at the farm (reports were that it was upsidedown in the creek, but when they got there it was up in a tree). felled tents and frazzled workers- a small price to pay for not having any infrastructure in your business. i feel like we fared pretty well, considering.