Dear Customers, If you’re like me, you get a little tired of the ever-increasing practice of naming days, weeks and even months as “National ———- Day, Week or Month” (you fill in the blank).  In any given 30-day period there are anywhere from 15 to 40 specially designated “events”.  It’s gotten a little out of…

Dear Customers, History creates new words and phrases which evolve, usually out of necessity.  If you were to compare a dictionary from 50 years ago to one published in 2022, there would be many, many new entries that didn’t exist in the earlier edition.  For instance, the word, Covid, was unheard of in 1972. So…

Dear Customers, In retrospect, I imagine I’ll look back on the summer of 2022 quite fondly.  I’ll focus on the abundant sunshine and overall good weather.  The less than desirable attributes are often pushed out of memory, not to be recalled.  Among those were the complete lack of rain during most of July and August,…

Dear Customers, When January’s chill winds blow and February’s icicles hang heavy from the eaves, we’ve grown accustomed to the vagaries of the fresh produce market.  Temperatures plummet in Florida and the orange crop suffers, both in quality and quantity.  Too much rain in the Salinas Valley in California and lettuce, tomatoes, spinach and strawberries…