Chickens And The Such!

Wow been over 3 weeks since my last post! Sorry but we have been very busy here....we are house sitting for our "neighbor" and I can hardly believe this, but market start NEXT weekend! It's a long market....runs for 5 months. AND I was recently contacted by Sustainable Living Systems...they wanted 48 muffins made out of as many local products as possible....that was a challenge, but I am pretty proud of what I came up with....about 80% of each of the different types of muffins contained local ingredients. I made Lemon Raspberry, Apple Pumpkin and Cheddar Onion. We have a local dairy so I was able milk, cheese (onion cheddar parsley) and the butter. I replaced the sugar for the local honey (NOT on a 1 to 1 ratio), I used Montana Wheat Flour and Montola Veggie Oil (safflower)...all those items produced in MT...some not so locally. Then I was able to get raspberries and pumpkin/apple puree from a friend's freeze....OH yes and the EGGS! I used the eggs that I have been collecting from the place we are house sitting. So they have two of these crazy looking chickens...they recently acquired them from a rancher who let his chickens "free range"...well the rest of the flock was recently eaten by coyotes. So Clark and Julie "adopted" the remain two. They give the smaller white eggs as opposed to the larger brown eggs. We are getting about 5-6 eggs per day...sometimes more. But we are also taking care of their chicks.....when they are ready to lay, Julie said they would be getting about 20-30 eggs a day. So she said we were welcome to come and get them when that happens!

I try to post more tomorrow.....more pics too!

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So, I'm just going to come right out and say this...I'm really...ok...exceptionally pleased with how this latest custom order turned out! So I thought I would share. I designed the label myself. Of course, the basic logo design was hers. The only thing that needs done is to shrink wrap them. These are going to a new boutique opening in Idaho....so hopefully she will be a repeat in the future! So if you need any little "favors" for anything...I can do your custom label for you!

Happy April Fool's Day!

So I/we have been soooo busy around here. Last week I baked 6 loaves of bread each day M-T-W....on Thursday, I was so excited to finally get to bake some bread for us...my favorite kind, sourdough. I cut a piece before I left for work...hot out of the oven! Well when John got home, there was no sourdough to be found...a certain dog helped herself to the entire rest of the loaf!

I just shipped out an order today for 100 custom lip butters with custom labels....have an order ready for tomorrow for 30 custom lip butters for a different order and I also got a reorder from the florist in Canada! Seems like everything hits at once!

If that wasn't enough...if you remember, a couple of weeks ago we went to a class in Missoula to become certified in Pet CPR. Well as it turns it is a small, small world....our instructor went to college at Lehigh University/College (not sure which is proper)in Bethlehem, PA. We were her last class she was teaching in Missoula...seems she is moving back to Connecticut. So...bright idea! John and I are now become certified INSTRUCTORS! We will be teaching the class! And I can't quite remember what she said, but I believe she was the only certified instructor in ...either all of Montana, or all of Western Montana....either way that's a pretty huge area! We are traveling to some training on Sunday from 11-3.

We had our meeting for the Farmer's Market last weekend...first market starts May 2nd...and I need to get cracking! I am wiped out of soap! Our last Market will be October 3. Long market...5 months long!