It can only get better!

The phone was ringing as we dragged our rain soaked bodies back to the house mid-afternoon yesterday. We had been at the Stella Spring Fling - our first market selling opportunity. (See yesterday's post for more information about our preparation and sale items.)  Our sympathetic caller was friend, Christie, an experienced market gardener who had been out of town and did not participate in this event. Our first market day was disappointing to say the least.  It was raining when we left the house and continued steadily all morning. Over an inch of rain fell during the time that we were selling our plants and sharing information about our local master gardeners program. After 5 hours of being wet and cold, we gave up and left by early afternoon.   In spite of the weather, we did generate some interest in our plants and sold a few.   While it did not meet our expectations, we are thankful that some diehard shoppers were out on such a nasty day.  The best thing that we can say is -  it was our first day of business and we took in more money than we spent.

What did Christie have to say about it?  Her comment went something like this - "Gwen, you have been through the worst; it can only get better!"  I sure hope she is right.