What is up with this weather? Talk about a total change from last spring.

Normally on Friday's the City Market phones are ringing off the hook with vendors calling to tell me they will be using their stalls on Saturday and Sunday. Today the phones have been ringing but only so the vendors can cancel for Saturday. The overnight temperatures will be to low for the vendors selling bedding plants to load their trucks on Friday night and the early morning temperatures will harm the plants when they are unloaded in the morning. Last Saturday vendors arrived at the market at 5:00 a.m., left their trucks loaded until it warmed up a little and went and ate breakfast, this is just not the norm. I received a call from a vendor this morning who had three inches of snow on the ground with trees and power lines down. Just unbelievable.

Many of the  vendors who sell craft items have also canceled for Saturday because they cannot risk having their items get wet. I can never remember a spring that has been this rainy and cold every Saturday.

I did manage to check one new vendor this week. Rachelle and Isaac Clark are from Liberty, Missouri and will be setting up at the Sunday farmers' market in a few weeks. Rachelle is a stay at home mom who is just starting her home business. She will be making a variety of children's items such as binkie buddies, unique personalized baby cloths and blankets. The Sunday market is a great starting point for new vendors just getting started. 

I am keeping my fingers crossed that next weekend will be sunny, warm and beautiful.I hope to get to Versailles, Missouri on Thursday. That was the plan for this week but it was just too rainy and cold.