Saturday, August 2, 2008

Where does the time go?? and wolves.

I can't believe it has been almost a week since I last posted. I guess that's what happens when you are busy. I had to fill a bread order (only 1 loaf) and a gift basket order this week. Every week since the start of the market (with the exception of the first week) I have had extra orders to fill throughout the week...whether it was bread or soaps...or both! I have been selling on average 8 loaves of sourdough each week....and I think I need to step up my cinnamon raisin swirl and cinnamon raisin walnut. I was sold out of both by 10 am...and the market only opened at 9! I had a another girl come and ask about soap and/or lotion bars for favors for her wedding. So I am thinking....another small intimate affair. Boy was I wrong!!! She was talking like for 400 people! So I can only make 4 batches of soap at a time.....each batch gives me 13 bars.....umm....that would take me like (realistically) about two weeks to fill her order! So I'm having mixed emotions about the possibility of this really happening. But I'm kinda leaning more towards hoping she'll pass on the idea. But I think that prospect of that is kinda slim because she is sorta trying to keep a theme going with her wedding. She is trying to get everything as local as possible, seeing as how her engagement ring is a Montana sapphire. Montana is know for their sapphires. Not too much else going on around here....in local news in the same article....a gray wolf was killed along I 90 and Sasquatch was also spotted along I 90. So I guess you'll never know what you'll find around the next corner.
Montana is planning on having their first wolf hunt this fall. The incident of livestock and pets being killed by wolves is becoming more and more prevalent. Just last week three llamas were killed just north of Stevi. Well, two were actually killed and one was so badly injured, it had to be put down. The week before that there was a report of a rancher killing a wolf because (supposedly) he had seen it harrassing his livestock. They are also for the first time planning on decreasing their elk harvest limits. Due to the increased number of wolves....their presence is dramatically impacting the herd numbers. So around here there are basically two groups of people wolf haters and those who want to save the wolves at all cost!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting!