Friday Post
Don't really have time, but eh. Want to be able to look back at this sometime.
Was going to iron this morning. Got a call from MIL needing cards for her mail order packages she's sending out tomorrow. L moves the plug for the printer over to the old PC, because that's where all the art stuff is (yes, I'm slow with migrating stuff).
Dig around, find the card she wants, fight with the printer, which is giving me attitude because I haven't used it for a couple of months and also probably because we moved it a few times. Print, cut, and fold 30 cards, figuring if she's ready to start packing I should give her some to start with, while finding out how many she actually needs.
Has 38 orders. Go up and print 20 more.
SIL Doris is here to help with getting all the orders out, which now includes for her, canning more syrup, and making cream. I see containers that need washing down before shipping and start doing that, since I'm down there..... end up helping put labels on the candy that's going up for the fair in town this weekend... and holding the strainer steady for some of the syrup Doris is canning... then labeling some more candy that my MIL Marian decided should go to the church for the weekend fair....
Did some stuff upstairs, and admittedly goofed off on the computer a little, although at least some of it was while I was fighting with the printer so I had to be in the room anyway.
L packed the order for Elmer's up (including some of the newly canned syrup), I labeled some stuff before everyone forgot what kind of syrup was in the containers, Doris gave us a couple of letters to mail for her, and off we went to lunch, sometime after 2PM.
Deliveries made, but not without Nan P at Elmer's asking if we could also bring up some maple cream. Well, happily D is making some of that, so we'll see about that later today, when it's finished and ready for packing.
Meantime, nephew Curtis stopped by, looking for something to help him remove the old decals off a truck he bought. I found my heat gun for him to try out and it works, so he's got that for the weekend, to work on removing the pinstripe detailing.
Now, time to move some stuff, then try L's outfit on him and see if taking it in a bit will improve the fit. The black wool is more stretchy than the wool I used on his red vommes, so it's causing some problems. Although it fits better now, what with all the moving of haybales and all broadening his shoulders.
Then, ironing!
More later.
Was going to iron this morning. Got a call from MIL needing cards for her mail order packages she's sending out tomorrow. L moves the plug for the printer over to the old PC, because that's where all the art stuff is (yes, I'm slow with migrating stuff).
Dig around, find the card she wants, fight with the printer, which is giving me attitude because I haven't used it for a couple of months and also probably because we moved it a few times. Print, cut, and fold 30 cards, figuring if she's ready to start packing I should give her some to start with, while finding out how many she actually needs.
Has 38 orders. Go up and print 20 more.
SIL Doris is here to help with getting all the orders out, which now includes for her, canning more syrup, and making cream. I see containers that need washing down before shipping and start doing that, since I'm down there..... end up helping put labels on the candy that's going up for the fair in town this weekend... and holding the strainer steady for some of the syrup Doris is canning... then labeling some more candy that my MIL Marian decided should go to the church for the weekend fair....
Did some stuff upstairs, and admittedly goofed off on the computer a little, although at least some of it was while I was fighting with the printer so I had to be in the room anyway.
L packed the order for Elmer's up (including some of the newly canned syrup), I labeled some stuff before everyone forgot what kind of syrup was in the containers, Doris gave us a couple of letters to mail for her, and off we went to lunch, sometime after 2PM.
Deliveries made, but not without Nan P at Elmer's asking if we could also bring up some maple cream. Well, happily D is making some of that, so we'll see about that later today, when it's finished and ready for packing.
Meantime, nephew Curtis stopped by, looking for something to help him remove the old decals off a truck he bought. I found my heat gun for him to try out and it works, so he's got that for the weekend, to work on removing the pinstripe detailing.
Now, time to move some stuff, then try L's outfit on him and see if taking it in a bit will improve the fit. The black wool is more stretchy than the wool I used on his red vommes, so it's causing some problems. Although it fits better now, what with all the moving of haybales and all broadening his shoulders.
Then, ironing!
More later.