Traffic…

Today was a busy one! We were in the production kitchen extra early today; we filled wholesale orders for deliveries today and tomorrow. We make our spätzle to order so when customers buy it at retail stores sometimes it’s only a few hours old, like today.

I made us a quick lunch, and we headed over to Saratoga to make a delivery downtown. The traffic was terrible. It seems they are tearing up every road along the way, just in time for all the summertime tourist traffic.  

Downtown Saratoga was popping with lots of cars, people, and more traffic. Our luck, school was getting out, and we were either behind a school bus that stopped every ten feet or at every crosswalk with kids walking home from school. Poor kids, I thought they’d be out for the summer by now.

We wiggle-waggled our way home going a different way, taking country roads with less traffic. We basically drove to Saratoga, made our delivery, turned around, and came home. It needed to be done, so now it is.

After we got home, I started going through our farmers market totes. Friday starts the Arlington Village Farmers Market right here in Arlington at our rec park. The market is from 4-7 pm. It’s less than a mile from our house, less than 5 minutes away, so at least we don’t have to travel far to this market. 

Yesterday our Governor, Phil Scott, dropped all Covid restrictions and reopened our state. We are the first in the nation to have 80% of our residents vaccinated. Thank God! 

For the first time since Covid started last March, we will be able to sample our spätzle again at the Arlington market. Yay!  Our product speaks for itself when people try it, saving potential customers and us from our “Spätzle Spiel.” 😂

I went through everything, restocked, and organized it all for Friday night. We have a second tote box for the Troy Farmers Market on Saturdays. We haven’t gotten the ok to sample in NY yet, but fingers crossed it will happen soon. 

The dogs have been fed, and I made myself a rum drink. We are sitting on the front porch just relaxing and enjoying the beautiful weather. There is a steady stream of “rush hour” traffic going by. It’s hardly traffic at all; just more cars than usual with people coming and going to work. 

We moved to VT way back in 1989 to get away from all the NJ & NY traffic. Although still only a quarter as much traffic as NJ, a traffic-filled delivery run is a strong reminder of why we moved in the first place. We live here for a better quality of life, which we appreciate every day! 

One thing I can tell you, even after living in VT for over 30 years, whenever I hear a horn beep, I still say, “Oh, blow it out your ass!” You can the girl out of Jersey, but you can’t take the Jersey out of the girl!