Farmer's Market Season is upon us!

This was the first Thursday Farmers' Market in McMinnville of 2009. Attendance looked good, and everyone was smiling.

92 degrees this evening - I think this summer's going to be a scorcher, like 2006. When it hits 108 in Mac, though, you can always go to Pacific City, if you prefer 68 degrees and a sea breeze, like I do.

My friends Jim Hoffman and Sarah Marcus are selling Silver Falls goat cheese at the McMinnville market. Reportedly, they will take over cheese production, and the Silver Falls Creamery will supply the milk and raise the goats. The cheese is really tasty, as chevre should be. Nice texture, too.

Alien Festival

This was the first year I missed the UFO festival. Max went down with his friend, and I stayed home and toted 50-50 soil from Greenlands to fill my raised beds. I guess I'm finally going native!

When I lived in Santa Rosa, I usually missed the big parades, I'd just see the marching band kids practicing in my neighborhood for the week beforehand. Now, I guess it's the same.

My workmate, a third generation McMinnville resident said, "I kind of saw the parade - I was moving out of my apartment on Cowls, so it was right there." She also says to whomever choreographs something to "Thriller" every single year to just knock it off! "That's not even aliens! It's monsters!"