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Farmer’s Markets are seen by most as fulcrums for hippie power leverage. But there is more to be gained than helping your community, eating healthier, and an aire of superiority. And that is premium foods at reasonable prices!

Peep game, 35.75$ brought home:
2lbs Wild Blueberries(10)
600mL Cherry Granola (3 - That’s right Granola)
2FT of garlic chili farmer Sausage(4)
1/2 lbs. Smoked Pike (7)
1 Jar Ginger Marmalade (3.75)
1 Jar Butter Chicken Sauce (6.50)
1 Puffed Wheat Cake Square(1.50 - snacks!)

While I admit the Blueberries were a bit pricey, all these things would definitely be more at your grocery store ( yes, even SuperStore) plus they aren’t even from the forest. I know I have shelled out over 5$ for Robertson’s Ginger Marmalade, AND SMOKED FISH! That’s the apertif du jour. The butter chicken sauce might end up being a bit of a gouge, we’ll see.

Want to front like you slaved over some home-style baking? Go to the Farmer’s Market. Need Moccasins? Try the Farmer’s Market. Safeway got you bleeding out the pockets for fresh herbs? Farmer’s Market has your back.

Rare and precious meats like bison, pickeral, and goat(???) can also be got en mass.

And the best part by far is you pay whatever the sign says. If it says 4$ you slap down a couple toonies and that is all. It’s like shopping at the Convenience store for Nerds , and GoldMine BubbleGum before tax was a big deal.

Move over Raspberries there is a new best fruit. The Moro Orange.

Drawing me in with it’s nectarine like colouring, dazzling me with it deep purple flesh, and sealing the deal with it’s not overly citrusy sweet flavour. I guess it is a type of Blood Orange, it is tasty and easy to peel. Pack 2 in your lunches.

After singing praises for Intuit’s Quick Tax We. I have to take most of it back. After 2 days of getting nothing but this gross post-it “Sorry, We are experiencing an error with this page *” note error page :

And  many more hours of dealing with, I’m ashamed to say it, Intuit Customer Care Support, and getting nowhere I decided to take matters into my own hands. And the god awful truth is heinous.

Turns out is was actually “MY FAULT”, and by “MY FAULT” I mean the programmers at Intuit’s fault. Seems someone decided that instead of making their validator alert users to improper input, they would simply, error the page. The trick was all in my phone number (306)666-6666 not an uncommon way to enter a phone number, I would argue. OH! But no seems that is an edge case that demands a kicking. After modifying my phone number to 3066666666 everything was hunky dory. Oh course this might not be a validator error, it could be a *GASP* SQL error. But I’ll leave the injections to the Russian hackers, and pray that my Credit Card & Tax info is safe in the mean time.

So perhaps it’s time to try U-File ?