Record!

Yay! It was my best record sales for the market!!!

John knew an average amount I make usually, and he set the goal a lot higher. I told him it's impossible, but I made it! WOW So amazing!

We need to celebrate :-)

Oh, by the way, Achi and my mom might come to visit us soon. That would be fun :-D

Homemade rain barrel

We made a rain barrel!  I've been trying to find a reasonably priced & useful featured rain barrel, and got tired of expensive prices. We had an trash can which we don't use anymore, so why not, I bought some parts from Lowes and John helped me to assemble it.

Ok, I might need to trim the mosquito net little bit more, but hey, doesn't it look good? It wasn't so hard to make it.

Spigot on the bottom. This metal parts was the most expensive, but still like $5 or so. I bought some O-rings and rubber rings, $2 the most. I was not sure if any of them would work, but we left the container full of water but it's not leaking so I guess it's working!

Inside view of water going out parts. Doesn't it look good? I'm so proud! I can't wait to set this on our garden, then I will be so happy for rainy days :-)

Today's Sheepy-Poo

Pie 2

No, I'm not talking about math. I baked another pie.

Since I thought about math, instead of making circles, I should have write "π" on the top. Oh well.

Random things

1. It's fun to have market friends. I got 2 exchanges from last week: bread & eggs.

2. I made a small appreciation presents for who gives donation. Thank goodness I'm crafty, I have enough tools to make process go easy (roller cutter, cutting mat, and ruler from quilting, and hand carved stamp & ink). I hope people like it.

3. Today's Sheepy-Poo. Watering his plants.

$20 off?

Kohl's, are you crazy?

I got 2 of $10off coupons from Kohl's. One by e-mail, one by mail. Neither of them have special regulations, like "you have to purchase $50 or more" or "regular price item only". I just need to find something more than $10, and they will take $10off. Why not, I will go to redeem these wonderful chance for sure!

Again...

Another big earthquake in Japan.

According to the news, 3 whole prefectures (including my parent's area) has no power. Ahh, when are people able to relax?

I should have bought them a hand spin energy radio.

Little bit busy

I'm sorry that I don't update blog much often. We've been busy these days, and I don't have enough time.

I'm trying to get ready for Karaage, teriyaki fried chicken, for the market. I hope it starts for this weekend. I'm hiring :-D my friend from church to help me. I can't handle everything all by myself, especially since John is not helping me anymore. I'm excited to be able to start the new menu, and hopefully it won't make me crazily busy but brings a great success $$ ;-)

Grilled Chicken

It was so beautiful outside, so John grilled chicken legs for us. Marinating sauce was made by John too. 

He doesn't like cooking at all, so he's not happy to do this job. I hope he enjoys cooking (at least grilling... it's man's job in US, isn't it?)

Tada-. Looks yummy, eh? Well, one of them were burned so bad :-D Well, we're still learning. I made soup with carrot, red bell pepper, and celery, all cooked well and used blender to make puree.  

Market 2011

Oh how fun it is. I really love doing the market. It's so fun to talk to people, recognizing regular customers, vendor friends, meeting new people, chit-chat with them, fun&fun. Thankfully it was ok-sunny day, but it was little windy. I might need to set some weight for the canopy tent so that it won't blow away easily.

To be ashamed, I didn't have any baked goods. Even though it's Blue Forest BAKERY! Shame me. My baking skill/schedule managing wasn't back yet, so I failed to bake. I only had curry&rice to sell, so I temporary changed the name to Blue Forest Ba-curry. People like curry though. I'm so happy to be able to introduce my culture thru foods. 

karaage?

I have a recipe for everybody's favorite, teriyaki fried chicken, called Karaage. Me and John are trying to figure out how to sell those in the market. John's idea is put chicken bits on skewers and sell like $1.50-$2.50/ stick.

Followings are what I need to start it:

    


If we'd like to start it from next weekend, I should order them ASAP. Hmm. Any investors? :-D