I’m not saying that it’s perfectly understandable for you to be completely sick of the weather we’ve been having. In fact, if you had the opportunity to miss out on this morning’s downpour from the comfort of your covers, all the power to you. Just don’t forget to call your dad in between your cups of tea and episodes of True Blood.

But if you had happened to adventure out to the Farmers Market, as you might often do on a typical summer Sunday, you might have seen a different picture from what you normally see: almost no customers.

Knowing that her stand might be the hardest hit by the weather, I asked Cle Franklin of Half Pint Homemade Ice Cream about the lack of business. Being her 3rd season at the farmer’s market, Cle could not recall any other summer day where the weather was this cold and rainy. She certainly has felt the results of the wet and gloomy atmosphere too, having sold approximately 1/10th of her normal amount of ice cream by that point in the day. Fortunately it wasn’t a total loss as her regulars still showed up to buy their weekly cone.

Other vendors were more lucky. As I bought a flower bouquet from a vendor, I casually asked if business was slower than usual, but they denied any hit from the rain and claimed that things were still steady. Maybe gloomy weather makes people want flowers more. I know that was true for me.

I also caught sight of a meat vendor sign that was sold out of their free-range chicken. Perhaps the market can truly survive on their regular customers.

As for Half Pint, Cle is taking the whole thing in stride. “I’m getting some knitting done.”