Doggie Bags For My Friends!!

Yesterday, I gave FULL doggie bags to my friends here at the RV park.  What's a friend for, if not to offer small tokens of friendship.  If I find a treasure, I want to share it with EVERYONE!!!  Unfortunately, the Chance family and the Russell family weren't as excited about the whole thing as I was!!!  But I'm getting ahead of myself ...........

Time flies when you're having fun, and this week has been no exception.  Our second week is coming to an end as Patty and I went back to Ilwaco just to make sure we didn't miss anything at the Farmers Market.

The weather couldn't have been better!!  I finally found the yarn shop I walked by two or three times the previous week, but didn't purchase anything.  Since I don't have a project in mind, I have no idea what to get!!  After how many years, I'm finally learning to be patient ... okay maybe not, but I refrained from buying THIS time!!

This huge stand of fresh vegetables was our real destination, where we picked up fresh sweet corn, green beans and some white nectarines.  YUM!!!

They had big boxes of little potatoes, some I had never seen before!!  There was also weird things like asian pears and long beans.

This market has definitely gone to the dogs.  They were everywhere!!!  Many were making new friends and some were just too shy, like the sheared English Sheepdog ... what a beauty!!  This little baby named Boo was just a doll!!  Her owner said she usually likes to walk, but today wanted to be a snuggle bunny.  She could go home in my pocket any time!!!

We went to find the handbag lady, but she wasn't there this week.  There were a few new vendors, including fresh lavender from a local farm, fresh fish that just came out of the ocean that morning, treasure chests made from wood pallets .....

and rocks .... lots of different kinds of rocks.  This gentleman's family owns a big company that produces the machinery to cover hay bales with plastic.  He's also into rocks and crystals!!  These are desert crystals, some of which come from around Quartzsite!!  He also attends the Gem and Mineral Show there, so we'll look him up this winter to say hello.

What about those doggie bags??  Wouldn't you be pleased to accept a gift like this???  Neither was Patty or Nick ... in fact, I could hardly get Nick to even take the bag in hand.  Here I spent all this time gathering up these treasures and they weren't the least bit happy or excited about it.  

Patty had a terrible look on her face, after all, she knows exactly what my doggie bags look like!!  I finally convinced Nick to take the bag, which he did with two fingers very gingerly!!  Hey ... share the treasure is my motto!!!  They both finally opened their bags to find these little gems of goodness ..... fresh blackberries straight from the vine.  I finally found a small patch way in the back that no one had discovered yet, when I was walking the dogs.  Since I had nothing else to put them in, I used a CLEAN doggie bag.  SURPRISE!!!

After washing, I dumped mine in a pot with a little sugar and cooked them up for pie filling.  

That rock hard pastry I've had in the fridge for two weeks wasn't exactly tender, but the fresh berry filling smothered in whipped cream was mighty tasty!!!

I'm sure anyone watching me carry several doggie bags from the back lot to my rig were wondering what the heck I was doing!!  The good part is I doubt ANYONE will go back there to see what was up, so there should be one more batch of berries before we leave!!!

It's Sunday, so we're off to the Astoria Sunday Market to wander around and enjoy the cool weather!  I think I'll take a couple of doggie bags with me!!