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Dane will be at home this Saturday as will Maria, Gregori and the new puppy, Jupiter (Jupey for short).
The weather man is saying it will be bad - well - not too bad - well really really bad - well in some areas - well only certain times of the day - well...Dane called me on the phone this morning from the field and called Saturday off. Then he called back to see if I was going to be upset about it. "Not really." I said. But I grew up in Wisconsin - weather is a multi-layered affair up there. Dane is cleaning the seed room now. I am definately OK with that.
We have sauce that I think might make good gifts for those who are giving. I will be in town either Monday or Tuesday. If you would like some sauce for gifts, I can set up a drop off location and have it for you. Just let me know. Please include a phone number.
Eating.
I finally gave up and joined weight watchers on line. So far I have not exceeded the weeks worth of points. I started yesterday. One personal challenge I have is coming up with decent food ideas and then getting enough time to implement them. We have enough good food. We have enough access to other farmers good food. So I have no good reason to put forth as to why I keep failing in the area of good meals. The other day I saw Cassie at Friendship Trays (Grateful Growers) and in the process of bemoaning my annual September gain of 5-10 pounds, I asked her if I could pay her to make my family the weeks worth of meals from local food for September 2010. Maybe 3 fresh meals and 2 frozen meals or some variation on that. She agreed to it. She went on to say that if I got a group (20 or so) of people who wanted weekly meals set up for them that she would help me put it together and we could start earlier than September 2010. So - what do you say? Any interest? Ideas? Let me know. Cassie is the MASTER of local food meals. This could be really really good.
Shipping.
A duh moment. I have shipped in the past from the UPS store off I-485 Exit 36 Rocky River Rd in Brookdale Shopping Center (Harris Teeter). Yanti is the owner operator and she was trained as an engineer with a strong secondary degree in it. She runs the store like an engineer would run the store. Fast, efficient, polite, helpful. My experiences with Yanti are always positive. All my family lives far away - so I use Yanti a lot. Except this year. I was in a rush and sent a big block of Grateful Growers Sausage to my mom in CA from Fed Ex in Salisbury. It was hard frozen. The weather was calling for chili. So I talked with the clerk at Fed Ex and he assured me that the meat would get to my mom in 2 days. Unless I wanted to pay over $100, then it could get there over night. I did not pay the $100 and sent it off on Friday expecting my mom to get it Monday no worse for the wear. Wednesday afternoon, on a fairly warm day in CA - my mom got the package and had to throw all of it out. That sausage was grown with love. Sent with love. Requested by my mother with love. But how do I explain that to Fed Ex? From now on I am going back to Yanti at the UPS Store exit 36 off of 485. I have never had to sit in line. She would have told me to go next door to Harris Teeter and get some dry ice. Guess I will have to get out my paint set and make my mom some stationary. I have some free time this Saturday and Gregori is pretty occupied with the new puppy - so, it should not be a problem.
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Maria Fisher
704-239-5255
The weather man is saying it will be bad - well - not too bad - well really really bad - well in some areas - well only certain times of the day - well...Dane called me on the phone this morning from the field and called Saturday off. Then he called back to see if I was going to be upset about it. "Not really." I said. But I grew up in Wisconsin - weather is a multi-layered affair up there. Dane is cleaning the seed room now. I am definately OK with that.
We have sauce that I think might make good gifts for those who are giving. I will be in town either Monday or Tuesday. If you would like some sauce for gifts, I can set up a drop off location and have it for you. Just let me know. Please include a phone number.
Eating.
I finally gave up and joined weight watchers on line. So far I have not exceeded the weeks worth of points. I started yesterday. One personal challenge I have is coming up with decent food ideas and then getting enough time to implement them. We have enough good food. We have enough access to other farmers good food. So I have no good reason to put forth as to why I keep failing in the area of good meals. The other day I saw Cassie at Friendship Trays (Grateful Growers) and in the process of bemoaning my annual September gain of 5-10 pounds, I asked her if I could pay her to make my family the weeks worth of meals from local food for September 2010. Maybe 3 fresh meals and 2 frozen meals or some variation on that. She agreed to it. She went on to say that if I got a group (20 or so) of people who wanted weekly meals set up for them that she would help me put it together and we could start earlier than September 2010. So - what do you say? Any interest? Ideas? Let me know. Cassie is the MASTER of local food meals. This could be really really good.
Shipping.
A duh moment. I have shipped in the past from the UPS store off I-485 Exit 36 Rocky River Rd in Brookdale Shopping Center (Harris Teeter). Yanti is the owner operator and she was trained as an engineer with a strong secondary degree in it. She runs the store like an engineer would run the store. Fast, efficient, polite, helpful. My experiences with Yanti are always positive. All my family lives far away - so I use Yanti a lot. Except this year. I was in a rush and sent a big block of Grateful Growers Sausage to my mom in CA from Fed Ex in Salisbury. It was hard frozen. The weather was calling for chili. So I talked with the clerk at Fed Ex and he assured me that the meat would get to my mom in 2 days. Unless I wanted to pay over $100, then it could get there over night. I did not pay the $100 and sent it off on Friday expecting my mom to get it Monday no worse for the wear. Wednesday afternoon, on a fairly warm day in CA - my mom got the package and had to throw all of it out. That sausage was grown with love. Sent with love. Requested by my mother with love. But how do I explain that to Fed Ex? From now on I am going back to Yanti at the UPS Store exit 36 off of 485. I have never had to sit in line. She would have told me to go next door to Harris Teeter and get some dry ice. Guess I will have to get out my paint set and make my mom some stationary. I have some free time this Saturday and Gregori is pretty occupied with the new puppy - so, it should not be a problem.
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Maria Fisher
704-239-5255
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