Saturday, August 6th - Farmers Market

 It was warm again today, high of 86. We had the AC on most of the day and will probably run it during the night, even though its supposed to get down to a damp, humid 56 degrees. We had several showers during the afternoon and a light rain is falling as I write this at 9:30. The good news is that this was the last 80+ day in the 10 day forecast.

We went to Marquette this morning to check out the Farmer's Market. There were as many "crafty stuff" booths as there were food booths. We didn't buy anything. Kathy said the food item prices were really high.

I kept waiting for all the fiddles in this group to jump into a rousing Orange Blossom Special (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEoIz1G04O4 now that is some fiddling), but apparently their musical education was limited to a more classical genre. Maybe they couldn't do it without a banjo player to help them.

The morel mushroom candles were nice.

Back in Ishpeming we stopped at a roadside market. I though it was interesting that the price of straw and hay were both $8/bale. The round bales of hay were $80. We did buy some stuff at this market, including a great tasting watermelon.

Back at the campground Kathy went for a swim and I worked on finding us a campground to move to when we leave this one. I spent over 4 hours yesterday searching for campgrounds that had sites available, preferably with full hook ups, and another couple of hours this afternoon. I found none near Duluth or Two Harbors Minnesota, where I wanted to go next. I extended our reservation here so that we now aren't checking out until next Friday, then we are moving to Drummond Lake Campground Campground, near Drummond, MN, for 6 nights. Drummond is about 200 miles from Ishpeming. That gives me time to continue searching for a campground north of Duluth. The weekend of the 12th is an annual bicycle race in the area. I was told that all campgrounds in this area are booked that weekend.

The guy who worked on our water heater mentioned that one of the things he likes about this campground is that it has the best WiFi of any campground he has stayed at. He mentioned that he has been streaming movies. I got bold and decided to see if I could get our smart TV connected to the campground WiFi. We are streaming our 2nd Netflix movie of the night.

We are now planning on returning to Centertown between Sept 9th and Sept 16th.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.