St. Jacobs has a wonderful farmers market. It's an hours drive so I don't get there very but I do make a point of going in the fall to buy some fruit and vegetables for the freezer. I go a little wild at the market as I want to buy all the different vegetables I see. Luckily Ellen was with me so went halves on a number of items, that and filling the car and running out of monetary funds controlled the number of purchases I made. We did manage to buy eggplants, zucchini, red and green peppers, apples for apple sauce, apples for pie, carrots, cucumbers, cauliflower, broccoli, tomatoes, apple fritters (Ed requested those), fish, schnitzel etc.

When we stopped for lunch we shared a picnic table with a couple from Ottawa who were in town picking up their son's "working" dog. Their son has Autism and the dog has been trained to help him. It's amazing the number of ways dogs can help people.

After we bought everything on our list at the market we headed over the outlet mall. I may have run out of cash but my credit cards still worked.

It was a lot of fun buying everything but now the work begins ---- the cooking and freezing. In the middle of winter I'll be happy to open my freezer and find all the wonder foods I bought and prepared today and over the next few days.