Rehab starts in 1 week!
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007OK, that’s it…the year’s over for Springfield and Framingham Farmers markets! The line we were giving out all this week and last was “kettle corn rehab starts in 1 week!”. Last year we were huddled next to the kettle trying to keep warm and hoping to move a few bags, this year we’ve been running out of supplies at the end of the day. I’m pretty sure this last day at the market was the busiest day we had all year. (People stocking up for winter?) I was starting to recognize our customers from the amount they buy – woman from dentist office across the street: 4-5 large bags. Heavy set man that I addressed as “THAT guy”: 4 small bags. It was kind of amazing that business picked up near the end of the year. I know everyone else at the market was having a hard time just selling year-end pumpkins and potatoes. Steve and I joked that we could’ve set up next week by ourselves in the parking lot and attracted our usual crowd.
The lady in black came back!! (See the previous blog post to get all the details) She brought me a present…a DAY GLO scarf! (knew she was a hot shit) I asked her if her family thought it was odd that she was wearing all black that day. She said that they were too busy clawing at all the free kettle corn to notice. Will we ever know her name? Not this time, she still wanted to be known as only the “lady in black”. Velma has now been wearing it and getting compliments. At least I got this picture I’ve posted below.
What’s next for kettle corn? I’ll be getting ready to drag everything down to Florida to do some popping for the winter! Stay tuned for more details.
