Farmer's Market in the Park

For the past month I have mostly missed my precious big-farmers-market-under-the-freeway on Sunday mornings. Twice I have gone to the much smaller Tuesday Market at Fremont Park. This is just a small market (12-15 booths) in a one block park in an older downtown neighborhood. Parking can be an issue if you aren't able to walk more than a block, but I am able and I found a decent place each time. The prices are also a bit higher than the Sunday market. (Office workers have more money to spend? Who knows.) They do have gorgeous long beans with a few purple beans mixed in that I don't see under the freeway.

This morning the park playground was full of cute little kids and cute young moms. There were more kids and moms around the fountain in the middle of the park enjoying a sunny Sacramento day. This is an urban area with smallish Victorian high water bungalows. Not so much parking that one would choose to drive to that park. These young families had to walk to get there -- so they lived nearby. It is so nice to see young families living so close to downtown.

I don't know about schools in the area, but if there are enough kids the schools will be there. It is so nice to see our downtown/midtown as a place to raise a family. Sacramento has lots of neighborhood parks and they are one of the very nicest things about this small city.

Vet visits and more vet visits

We have had a close relationship with our vet this month. The Wondermouse has been in for a check up and a check back and the Red Prince for a check up.

The first visit found a little issue with Beatrice Jean Charlotte Wondermouse Doig's pancreas and she got put on a steroid for a few weeks. A check back showed that it hadn't gotten better but no worse, so we are keeping her on the drug. She is quite thrilled. It is given in a sweetened "tuna flavor" suspension liquid and she demands it each morning. She is our 19-year-old boss lady and she tells me if she isn't getting her morning fix. Everything else is pretty good considering her rather advanced age.

The Red Prince, at age four, was pronounced healthy and really quite gorgeous. He is a good size and weight and was even fairly calm with Dr. Elliott. The ladies in the office said he has "soulful eyes", and I would agree.

So I have a young lady-killer male cat and an aged druggie female. Whoda thought?

Life is Bizzzz-eeee

In my Soroptimist Club we have slogans. One of our older ladies -- long retired -- says "Life is Bizzz-eee!" and mine has echoed hers lately. My 12-step (addicted to food) program requires 3 meetings a week, then I have workouts and family needs, and my social life has simply been busier than usual. I hadn't realized that I had failed to blog for almost two months. In that time we have had my Mother's 90th birthday (pictures included), a trip to Santa Barbara for a 50th anniversary party, and several other adventures. We also have a new pet, and I will say more about that in another post.

All five of Mom's grandchildren were at the party, held at Nancy and Ryan's house. One husband and one boyfriend weren't able to make it and were missed. There was one great grandchild. The day was lovely (we have had a very nice summer) and people stayed mostly outside.

As I write this I am reminded why I need to blog. I get out of the habit of writing so very quickly. I try to journal in a book but it isn't the same for me. As a Journalism major, I learned to think at the typewriter (computer these days). I need that keyboard to do this. Taking the time to sit at the keyboard and write must be part of my discipline.