Hubby and I decided to venture to a local farmer's market this past weekend, to get the kids out of the house, and pick up some inexpensive produce and other homemade goodies like pies, bread maybe, and whatever we could get our hands on as a good deal.We were severely disappointed.I haven't been to a farmer's market in years. I (incorrectly) posted on facebook that it had been since I lived in England, but while we were out and about, Hubby reminded me I used to go to the ones in Charleston. So, while I thought it had been like 7 or 8 years, it had really only been like 4 or 5 years since I'd been to one. Anyway, there were 2 for us to choose from; one was about 10 miles but a 30 minute drive to downtown Tucson... in the 'hood. The other was about 10 miles but a 20 minute drive up toward the mountains. We decided to take our chances with the mountain farmer's market.We started the 20 minute drive, and I quickly started to question our decision because it appeared this farmer's market was in the middle of nowhere- some The Hills Have Eyes shit. Desert, tumbleweeds, torture and plenty of places to bury our dead bodies. We finally found it, and we saw a decent amount of cars, so we decided not to have wasted the 20 minute drive and park.Now, you have to understand that we decided to go to a farmer's market because my past experience with farmer's markets has been nothing but positive. Produce was almost half the price of going to a grocery store because you were cutting out the middle man of the grocery store and going directly to the farmer. Handmade goodies like pies and bread are next to nothing because the people want to make sure they sell it instead of load 27 loaves of bread back into their car at the end of the day. And handmade art? They were setting up at a farmer's market, not having their own show at a gallery, so paintings were in the $20 range and handmade jewelry was next to nothing because there's 53 other handmade jewelry vendors.We parked and started walking toward the vendors. There were a few outside booths set up before the (high class, I'm assuming) covered booths. The first thing I saw was some handmade mosaic tiles. Someone had painted and glued together fake gems and tiles to make a gecko. How cute... and $250 each. WTF? I can make those for about $10, and that's if I were to buy

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