Almonds and Shingles. Sound like a strange combination? Apparently not at the Fort Wayne Home and Garden Show. We attended last weekend and saw an oddly eclectic combination of vendors, including people selling chocolate covered almonds, chiropractors, fitness centers, culinary training, footwear vendors, SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), the zoo, martial arts, sausage vendors, religious institutions, jewelry vendors, bookstores, a bowling league, vitamin vendors, The Sexual Assault 5K Run (?), purse vendors, Northeast Indiana Bee Keepers Association, as well as all the insurance companies and things you'd expect to see at a home and garden show. And the funny thing is there wasn't just one of some of these odd ones. I think there were three almond vendors on the floor, on top of who knows how many selling some type of prepared junk food or homemade jewelry. There had to be four fitness centers there, etc.
It made for a very weird vibe. In spite of all those distractions, which really just made it harder for us to get around and see what we wanted to see, we did have a few productive conversations with people selling products that directly relate to remodeling (or building) a home.
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