It’s Saturday and that means farmers’ market.  There is a nice pictorial over on I Hate My Developer.  It is accurate for us as well since she apparently walks the same route we do.  Today’s bounty included some peaches and some hot peppers for some homemade salsa we are going to make.  They let us try several peppers and find the ones that were the perfect heat.  Unfortunately, many of the booths seem to be missing this time.  I’m not sure what the deal with the inconsistency is, but I guess it is the first year after all.  And we always find something to buy!

Of course that also means a trip to the garden.  I think our garden is running out of steam a little bit, and none too soon!  Oh the food we’ve gotten out of it this year!  We have tomatoes like mad but we are busily eating them on everything from fresh salsa, to pizza, to sandwiches, to homemade marinara sauce.  We got tons and tons of beans, so much so that we ended up throwing some away.  We didn’t want to but we just couldn’t get to them in time.  We also have 4 more squash to deal with, and another on the way.  So the garden was an unqualified success!  We are already plotting for next year (pun intended).

Finally, since it was my first free Saturday in like months, I finally tackled a problem that has plagued us since the dawn of time…a bad ceiling fan remote!  The ceiling fan in our bedroom doesn’t have any strings, so if you want to turn the fan off and on, you have to use the remote.  This usually means a 10 minute dance around the bedroom waving the remote around like a magic wand and mashing on the button a million times.  The dance finally ends with me standing on the bed pressing the remote against the fan base and then trying to withdraw my hand fast before the blades start.  Even this had been working less and less lately until we gave up on it altogether.

So today I decided to swap the receiving unit from the living room fan because it not only works, but we never use it and also the fan has strings making the remote unnecessary.  Sara was not behind the project since it was an ordeal the first time, but I persisted.  It actually went really well.  I had the remote out of the old fan and had it rewired in like 10 minutes.  Then on to our room which took a little longer only because I clipped off like 2 feet of extra wire, which is partially what made it take so long last time.  It was tough fitting the remote sending unit and all of that wire up there before!  But here’s the thing!  I discovered that the remote receiving unit and the remote itself were set to different frequencies!!  I don’t know why it worked at all, even though the codes were very similar.  So, surprise surprise, when I put it on the right code, it seemed to work much better!  So, consequently, I put it all back together without using the remote unit from the living room.  I didn’t put it back in the other fan though, just in case.  I can’t believe all of the headache that thing has caused me and all because I put the stupid switches in the wrong position.

Oh well, what’s done is done.