Last week I toured the Burien Farmers Market for a look-see and got a bang out it.

Debra George was smiling as usual at the sizable crowd when I arrived. George runs the weekly event. The day was sunny, the vendors were busy, and there is always something appealing about boxes of fresh cherries and berries. There are huge bouquets of fresh cut bunches of exotic flowers and just mingling and greeting some neighbors and friends and having an open air hot dog.

What a treat.

Years ago Elsbeth spent every summer Saturday serving Links and Drinks out of a weenie wagon. Our then circulation manager, Les Altman, built it in his yard. It was my job to move our homemade trailer to our location, a lot where the present metro parking garage now exists.
Elsbeth often pressed the kids into service while I kept some fellow golfers at Rainier golf course off the streets.

We only had one small problem in all the years. We had to pull the wagon to the spot. Going up a hill one Saturday morning the rig broke loose and started rolling downhill backwards.

Wow, all I could do was jam on the car brakes and watch our caboose careen madly out of control and then by a twist of fate, it veered into a curb and came to a stop.

Nothing awful happened other than a momentary heart pounding. I was able to back the car up and maneuver the hitch into position and haul the runaway cart up to the market.

My lucky star was still shining.

I had a similar scare the year I took our whole family to Disneyland and lost a 15-foot trailer when the hitch broke and our sleeping quarters veered right through a gap in the traffic ending up in an orange grove.

Amazingly, nobody got a scratch. We even got a fellow traveler to pull it back onto the highway.

If you want to have a good time for the next 11 or 12 weeks, get on over to the Burien Farmers Market from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each Thursday through mid-October. Don't worry, all the trailers are hitched up tight.