The Weblog
The local foods movement is alive and well in Champaign County! Here are some updates on other projects while we finalize our virtual market:
Local Producers Map:
Our local producers map is ready for publication and you will soon be able to find it on gochampaign.com. Copies will be distributed around the community, in the local telephone book, and other “hangouts”. The guide lists the location and contact information for nearly 50 local producers within our county. The map was a project of the Local Food Council and printed with the help of some local sponsors including the Monument Square District, Champaign Bank, the Community Improvement Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau and others. It is a great start to finding a local source for Champaign County’s finest!
Christmas
It’s Christmas
Baby please come home
Yeah!
(Christmas) The snow’s coming down
(Christmas) I’m watching it fall
(Christmas) Lots of people around
(Christmas) Baby please come home
(Christmas) The church bells in town
(Christmas) They’re ringing their song
(Christmas) Oh the happiest town
(Christmas) Baby please come home
They’re singing “Deck The Halls”
But it’s not like Christmas at all
I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year
(Christmas) Pretty lights on the tree
(Christmas) I’m watching them shine
(Christmas) You should be here with me
(Christmas) Baby please come home
Oh!
Baby please come home
Baby please come home
They’re singing “Deck The Halls”
But it’s not like Christmas at all
I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year
(Christmas) If there was a way
(Christmas) I would hold back these tears
(Christmas) For this Christmas day
(Christmas) Baby please come home
Home
Baby please come home!
Baby please come home!
Baby please come home!
Oh!
Baby please come home!
Baby please come home!
(The U2 version)
Just another Christmas song off of my personal playlist to pass on to you, as you do the last of your ordering for the week! You have one hour to complete your orders until next month!
And, this song…it takes me way back to the late 80s when I was living in Los Angeles, cruising around to my haunts in Westwood Village, Venice Beach, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, and up in Laurel Canyon.
In this time frame, I wasn’t making the trek back for Christmas in those years because I was a flight attendant, based in Los Angeles, and holding down all of the LAX-JKF flights during holiday times. This song was playing in all of my little local favorite hang out places in California, making me both homesick, yet excited for my new holiday adventures with the friends, out there, who became my family in that segment of time.
Holiday spirit is everywhere, and the magic of the season starts within your heart…
So, I leave you until I close up the market at 8pm…this market is crazy, this week, and you are making the vendors so very grateful.
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam