Just another picture from the farmer's market. The only thing special about this one is that the table which our sprouts are on is new. We replaced our 5 year old hollow door and pine table with an identical table made of cedar. It is beautiful and weather tolerant but we probably should have used oak (the cedar is soft and bruises easily). The summer of 1998 was very difficult for us. We parted company with our 2 key employees after we discovered they were stealing from us and telling lies about us in our small town. Gil started working 16 hour days and would go 3 days without seeing the kids awake. Lori took care of the kids constantly and did all of our bookkeeping and redesigned our mail order department. We were planning a quarter million dollar expansion (a very alien concept for bohemians like us) as the torrent of bad press started to pour down - eventually killing the expansion idea. We made it through, but it wiped us out. By years end we were virtually useless and if it weren't for our loyal employees Deborah and Carl we would have surely given up. A person can only work so many 80 hour/7 day weeks. For us the limit was 5 1/2 years. But hey - I'll put down the violin.