Mystery Envelope!

Lisa L. wrote:

wow Jessica! You are so busy!

Where do you sell your sweets?

Mostly to the teachers at the schools, DH's office and neighbors. I do up tins of balls (cherry, peanut butter, rum, pecan, snow, grand marnier) and trays that have the balls on them plus date squares, nanimo bars, coconut logs, spritz cookies, almond kiss cookies and peanut butter cups.

Wow you are busy Jessica! I don't know where you find the time!

Wow... I agree with Stephanie! Thanks for explaining "meat kings"... do the boys help much?

Yes, they are a great help. DH is either doing other work here or is at the office so we work at it w/o him. The oldest three do the "culling", then everyone from 6 years old and up help to pluck. My 14 year old does the gutting (my 8 year old shows interest in doing this task too) and then I wash them up and bag them. After doing four more yesterday I told them we would be "celebrating" when we finish them all. Not sure yet what that will be, but it will be fun! Family movie night with treats, campfire with s'mores and glow sticks, maybe an overnight at a hotel.... it'll be so nice to be done and worth celebrating! It's time consuming work and can't be done all in one day due to the number of chickens we have and the baby's schedule so we keep having to do a few on any available day.

My parents used to have chickens and I remember doing the plucking. It wasn't fun but my dad didn't give us a choice I remember he got mad at us once because we were pulling on the tendons on the chicken leg and making the foot open & close. We started laughing so hard!

LOL! I used to help as a child too, it was neat to find the developing eggs inside!

I remember helping as a child, too. NOT one of my favorite childhood memories, I still can reember the smell!

Do you sell the chickens or keep them for your family.

We sold some last year. Will probably sell a few this year too. We prefer to keep them though when we think of all the work we had to do to get them in the freezer! LOL!

This sounds like it will be fun....wish I was here on time that I could of signed up. If you do it again I will be in for sure.

Yipee!!!

I still have this to do I have to find my envelope. Everything I go to the basement, I'm putting one thing away on my scrap table. I might have in cleaned off by Christmas.

No worries Linda.. I still Lois's house to do from months ago... LOL!!

lirose wrote:

I still have this to do I have to find my envelope. Everything I go to the basement, I'm putting one thing away on my scrap table. I might have in cleaned off by Christmas.

That's a good idea. I have to go to my basement for laundry (and goodness knows, no one EVER has clothes to wear!! ) so I could totally do this. However, I may be done by NEXT Christmas - yeah, it's that bad! LOL

Mine is really bad, too Stephanie. I know I could win a prize for the messiest space.

was there ever a winner for this announced ?

I looked at my space this morning (in the dark) and shuddered. Good thing I'm not working in there today! I'll take a photo (later) and prove it to you..

Looking forward to it, Kelly! Maybe it will make the rest of us feel better about our messes!

No winner Kerri.. just the mystery challenge....

ah that's okay then cos i thought i missed something