This Is The New Year

This is the new year
We are the voices
This is the new year…
(A Great Big World)

Here we are, lovely customers of this little local market…we are just a few moments away from bidding the past year farewell, and ushering in what we can only hope is a kinder, gentler, calmer year.

I hope that you all have had a lovely time the past few weeks. Your market manager took time to unwind, regroup, spend time with my daughter, cater a couple of small get togethers, and now I am landing right back here…ready to take on the new year with our lovely little local band of vendors and customers.

One change to the market!!!

We will now close the market, each week, at 8AM, on Tuesdays, instead of 8PM….and new thing for you to remember, but we can make this work!! And, the vendors will have more time to get it all together for you, at market pick up!!

Also…you will know that my things and Hippie and the Farmer are in vacation mode. I will take everything out of vacation mode, tomorrow, but I am still working on new menu items, soups, and additional bread listings. I know, I know…but, I was busy during my time off…lol.

Happy New Year, my lovelies…we look forward to serving you in 2021! Also known as our 10 Year Anniversary Year as a market!!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Happy Sparkling Wednesday!

Just taking a moment before my crazy day begins to thank each of you for not only shopping the market, this week, and showing it so much love…but, for allowing us to bring you all of the local goodness, each and every week.

This time, last year, we were cruising along. A nice market but still just a little tiny local market that saw steady weeks, and a handful of loyal customers.

You know the curveball that was thrown to all of us, and the chaos that would be brought on. But, one of my favorite lines is…Every great moment of change is brought on by chaos. And, while those may not be the exact words, the thought is very much what happened to this market.

The silver lining in 2020 has been to watch this market move, transition, and grow into the blooming success that it is.

Thank you, customers, vendors, and fellow market manager…each week, you all amaze me.

Tomorrow will be the last market pick up of the year before we all take a holiday break. It will reopen for order taking on NYE.

You may pick up your orders, tomorrow, between 4pm-6pm. You may arrange for a Friday pick up, 10am-12pm. If you are a Yellow Springs customer through Clem & Thyme, we will deliver your order, Friday, to their farm offices, after 1pm.

First time customers, this week…you may pay by card, by first calling me with your number that will then go into our files for future purchases. Or, you can pay by checks made out to Oakview Farm Meats, or exact cash, in a ziplock bag, with your name. Customers who are delivery, must have card on file.

That is it! I will see you at tomorrow’s pick up, and then I will see you after the holiday…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

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

Christmas Wrapping

Bah! Humbug!
Now that’s too strong
‘Cause it is my favorite holiday
But all this year’s been a busy blur
Don’t think I have the energy
To add to my already mad rush
Just ‘cause it’s ’tis the season
The perfect gift for me would be
Completions and connections left from last year
Ski shop encounter most interesting
Had his number but never the time
Most of ’81 passed along those lines
So deck those halls
Trim those trees
Raise up cups of Christmas cheer
I just need to catch my breath
Christmas by myself this year

Calendar picture, frozen landscape
Chill this room for 24 days
Evergreens, sparkling snow
Get this winter over with!
Flash back to spring time, saw him again
Would have been good to go for lunch
Couldn’t agree when we were both free
We tried, we said we’d keep in touch
Didn’t of course, ’til summertime
Out to the beach, to his boat, could I join him?

No, this time it was me
Sunburn in the third degree
Now the calendar’s just one page
Of course I am excited
Tonight’s the night I’ve set my mind
Not to do too much about it

Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I’ll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I’ll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I’ll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I’ll miss this one this year

Hardly dashing through the snow
‘Cause I bundled up too tight
Last minute have-to-dos
A few cards, a few calls
Because it’s RSVP
No, thanks, no party lights
It’s Christmas Eve, gonna relax
Turned down all of my invites
Last fall I had a night to myself
Same guy called; Halloween party
Waited all night for him to show
This time his car wouldn’t go
Forget it, it’s cold, it’s getting late
Trudge on home to celebrate
In a quiet way, unwind
Doing Christmas right this time…
(The Waitresses)

Happy Monday, lovely market customers…and, welcome to your market manager’s trip back in time to the early 80s. This song. Packing my car, each year of college, tired, burned out, exams behind me, all projects completed, lots of hugging of sorority sisters, turning the lights off in my room, and jumping on the highway, driving the three hours, north, to be home for the holidays.

Arriving looking exhausted, malnourished, loads of dirty laundry, tons of phone calls and messages left from all of my friends who were also arriving in town from college. Dumping all of my gear, knowing my mother would immediately start laundry, and feed me. Then, I would be out the door, and off to the mall where I spent all of my high school/college years, working. I was a retail rat, and holiday times/summer you could find me working the floor at the old Casual Corner.

And the mall…my gosh, how much did I LOVE the mall at Christmas?? The hustle, the bustle, the shopping, the excitement, the much needed paychecks because also, I was a poor college girl, and the mall job allowed me to pay for my books, my sorority dues, and my wardrobe, while each parental unit took care of tuition and room fees.

And, this song…this song was everything holiday, back then. If you were also a mall rat back in the day, you knew each shop got the same huge muzak tape to play, all holiday season, and this one blared all over the place.

And, as my shift would end, I would race out to the area bars, clubs, also blaring this song, to meet up with friends, and boys who were all also in town. We would make plans, exchange gifts, talk about our past semester, and secure our New Year’s Eve dates.

This song…holiday time at it’s best for me. And, what really made me smile, way back when my daughter was in junior high and high school, she began her holiday love journey with this same song. It’s still our holiday song, together…

And, just as this song brings back so many lovely memories of holidays past, so does this market. Each year, in this time frame, we begin to say, Happy Holiday, as we take orders for the last time before the new year.

And, you all are seriously giving the market ALL the love, this week!! Even with all of my products off on vacation mode, you guys are tearing it up!!

So, you have until tomorrow evening before we say, Merry Christmas, and wrap it all up for two weeks.

I hope I’ve given you a fun song implant to take you on your day, and to put a fun song to your ordering…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Cosmic Charlie/Hippie and the Farmer

Another market update…

My products will all be off the market, this last market of the season.

We are catering a small event for the owners of Indian Creek Distillery, and their employees, Wednesday evening, so all of my efforts will be put forth in getting ready for that, not allowing me the time I need for your baking, and frozen dinner making.

I will be at market pick up, though, to greet you, and wish you a very happy holiday time, before we shut this market until after the holiday time!!

Thank you for being such awesome customers!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Shopping Small, Shopping Local

Good morning!

I have yet another great gift idea from one of your favorite vendors!

Valley View Woodlands maple syrup is now available in an unbreakable 8 ounce plastic jug, perfect for a Christmas stocking stuffer. Also great for shipping. Same great syrup, same great flavor from our maple trees in the Mad River Valley.

Thank you, Marc and Shary!

Holiday Shopping!

Happy, Happy!!

I am opening the market for the week!!

Please remember that this will be the last market week until after the new year!! There is still time to shop for amazing local gifts without trying to be in the crowds, shopping!

And, I have two holiday shopping announcements!!

The first Is from, Flourish!

Hi and happy holidays flourish fans! We have our new products – the flourish holiday boxes up on the market under the holiday shopping tab! Boxes are the perfect gift for anyone who love local and sustainability. These boxes come with locally, hand crafted, clay earrings, an air plant, flourish famous bath salts and a flourish essential oil roller. These boxes are $26 but we have a sale right now for $23. The perfect gift that can be wrapped and put under the tree or shipped out for loved ones near and far. Happy holidays everyone we look forward to flourishing with you!

And, the second is from, The Barkery!

Kim wants you to know that she can make any of her treats into gingerbread shapes for your furry friends!! Tis the season!

Thank you!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Thank you, Thank you!

Good morning, lovely market customers, and a HUGE thank you, for another amazing week of sales!!

If you are new to us, the market pick up is on Thursdays, at the farm of Oakview Farm Meats, 4pm-6pm!

Or, you can have a Friday pick up, at the farm, 10am-12pm!

If you are a customer through Clem and Thyme, we will deliver your order by 1pm, on Fridays, to their lovely farm offices in Yellow Springs!

You may also call me to put your card number on file! It helps in our ongoing efforts to keep everything contactless. Once your number is in the system, you will not need to call it in, again!

If you are paying by check, please make it out to, Oakview Farm Meats! If paying in cash, please place in a ziplock bag with your name!

If you are a customer through Clem and Thyme, we do need your card information as this is the only form of payment through that portion of the market!

My number is 937-926-4833!

Once again, we all thank you, kindly, for your continued support!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Imagine

Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No Hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people livin’ for today
Ah, ah, ah-ah

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothin’ to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people livin’ life in peace
Yoo, hoo, oo-oo

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharin’ all the world
Yoo, hoo, oo-oo

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
(John Lennon)

I thought it only fitting to use this song by John Lennon for our market song, this morning, in tribute to losing him, on this day, 40 years ago.

One of those days you remember the exact moment upon hearing the news, and, for me, I was entering sophomore Geometry when the news flooded our high school. The day was somber, the world was darker, but his message and talent lives on, in all of our hearts…

Good morning, on this Tuesday. The market site has had a few glitches, this morning, but all seem to be worked out, now. If you had trouble in that time frame, please try to place your orders, again!

The market will be closing, this evening, at 8pm, and you don’t want to miss another week of market loveliness.

Keep the song in your hearts, and love in your souls…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Tapestry

My life has been a tapestry
Of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision
Of the ever-changing view
A wond’rous woven magic
In bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see
Impossible to hold…
(Carole King)

Good morning on this bit of a dreary Monday morning, local market lovely customers! I hope that the weekend was kind to you, and you are ready to face the week with us, and the market!

At Thursday’s pick up, as I was loading a customer’s trunk with market orders, I could hear that they were playing Carole King, and ever since, I’ve been revisiting my love of her, her music, and the lovely lyrics to this song.

Life is a tapestry for us all. If we all painted, and pieced together all of the colorful mosaics of our lives, what a rich tapestry each of us would have. Every color, every design, every thought provoking inch of our tapestries would offer such an amazing look into all of the roads we have travelled.

I feel like this market would have such a unique tapestry with all of the different customers, vendors, products, the paths that the market has taken…a lovely little local tapestry of market love.

Today is Monday, and you are really showing the market so much love! You have until tomorrow evening to get your orders in! The market will close at 8pm, tomorrow night!!

Take on the day, painting it in vivid and rich colors…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam