Albion

Well, I apologize for not posting the last few days. It's been a little bit crazy. I always think that I will have time to post things via the computer at night, but I never do! So I'm posting via my phone while at the market. And when I say market I really mean our fruit stand in the parking lot of a strip mall...Brother G goes to a few actual farmer's markets on Fridays and Saturdays, but the one I'm at is just me.

On Saturday Carter and I went out to lunch to a place called Big G's. As you can see from the photos the sandwiches are HUGE! I only bought a half sandwich but Carter got a whole one. We both only ate a quarter of Big G's "sandwich". Carter says that on his mission he could eat an entire one in one sitting... We also bought a whoopee pie....a huge whoopee pie! That's me eating it in our kitchen (my phone won't let me load pictures within the text so they are all at the bottom still).

After lunch we went back to the farm and took a walk around all the fields. That's where the landscape photo is from-the back of the farm.

And as for this week, Carter works on the farm and in the greenhouse from 7 to 5:30. I leave for the market around 7:30 and get back around 6:30. Saturdays I get off early so we are making Saturday night our date night and travel time. We are going to visit other areas of Carter's mission on the weekends. We're thinking we'll go to New Hampshire this week and to Bob's next week. Hopefully traveling will make our posts much more entertaining!

Sadly the farm was not what we were expecting. We thought Carter would be doing more of the farming but instead Brother G just has him picking. It is still fun, and so far we like farming but just wish Carter was running more tractors :)

As for the quarks of Maine..there are plenty! What gets me the most are the roads. I haven't been on a road yet that had more than three lanes. All the roads I drive on to get to Boothbay are two lanes, don't have shoulders, are windy, have driveways right off of them and the speed limits are 45 or 50. Completely backwards from Washington! Their road  signs are also really short, they're nice and petite. I'm still getting used to the accents. Yesterday a customer and I were talking and I could hardly understand him! From the bits and pieces that I did understand I learned that he grew up in Norway and lived there till he was about 30...or maybe 20, I couldn't really get that through his accent. Then he moved to Maine,  where he has lived ever since...adding a completely new accent to his Norwegian one! It was a great conversation :)

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