For over a month now I have had the joy of the downtown Longview Saturday farmers market. While a far cry from those in NY, NJ it fills me with happiness as I journey through the 7 or 8 booths each week gathering fresh local produce, cheese and eggs.
Great deals are hard to find, however excellent in quality, long lasting and full of flavor. This last week I filled my basket with thai goat cheese,
yellow beans, snap peas, egg plant, potatoes, jalapenos and cucumbers. Supplemented with collard greens and cilantro from our garden we have been eating well for the past few days.
Today I discovered that the Fairground Farmers Market has opened for the season and I scored my first peaches of the year! The Fairground Farmers Market is tucked back and a bit hard to see, but go to the fairgrounds, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 8am and noon and you should be able to find it. Its a true gem if you are new to the area and looking for some spectacular inspiration. Tonight for desert we had peach pie with a gram cracker crust YUM!
Here are the links:
http://www.longviewfarmersmarket.org/ http://www.historiclongviewfarmersmarket.com/
I had quite a time
finding a list of things to do as an adult that was not going to be out all
night drinking in Austin and thus I want to share with you what we did for a
short weekend in Austin. 
Next stop the
Cathedral of Junk
Going on two years now of living in small town USA has been a transition for the mega cities of Asia. Working for non-profits has taken up a fair amount of my time but wanting to stay busy I enrolled in Kilgore Tx, Citizens Police Academy. I hoped to make some friends, but got a highly engaging Thursday night activity over the last two months. Most small town police departments offer Citizens academy's and I highly recommend trying it out, the one in Kilgore TX has been wonderful. Last week we got to shoot police guns and ride along in the police training track.
The final room in the main exhibit hall did have some informative videos on Fracking, even if they left out what the "other" is and if they made facking seem like the critical component in human existence It is an oil museum, I guess that to be expected, not a two sided tale but one of the great patriotic realization. The room was also home to some fantastic belt buckles that I am dying to find for myself.
