My sidequests for this week included going to a farmer’s market, breaking a large overwhelming challenge into smaller tasks, and organizing the files on my computer.

The farmer’s market quest was mentioned last week. Several years ago, the town I live in started having a Farmer’s Market during certain times of the year on Saturdays. It was successful enough that they decided to put it in its own building and have it year round every Saturday. Despite that, I’ve never been to it, so I texted a friend to ask if she wanted to check it out since I was having lunch with her that day anyway. I picked her up and we browsed and bought several things we probably didn’t need. It was quite crowded, but a lot of fun. There were the food vendors that you would expect – people selling many varieties of jarred fruits and vegetables, fresh fruits and vegetables, and some of the unique things they make from their farms. There were also a lot of artisans selling crochet and knit art, wood carvings, jewelry, soap, candles, and other custom made products. Two different wineries had trucks present offering wine samples.

While there, I bought cookies, a crochet cat in my favorite color, cinnamon flavored spun honey, and some loose leaf lavender tea. We sampled some of the wines at one of the trucks, and they had a seasonal flavor made from coconut lime. As strange as that sounds for a wine flavor, it tasted delicious, so I bought a bottle. I also bought two necklaces and a farmer’s market bag. It was a lot of fun. I also heard a lot of the vendors say they weren’t always there, which makes me think that it can be a different experience every time if there were other vendors not present as well, so it seems like something worth checking out on a semi-regular basis.

Last year I organized quite a lot of the files on my computer, so they weren’t desperately out of order. The organization process was pretty short and mostly just involved going through the files in my downloads folder that hadn’t been shifted to their correct locations (or deleted if no longer needed). So I cleared out that folder, and that task was done.

The large overwhelming task is a card that I keep shuffling back because I can’t think of what task that might be. I have been piecemeal working on getting things ready for some personal life changes, and took care of some things related to that this week as well. So even though I’m not going into details about it, I’ll consider that finally done.