Busy Day at the Farm
Jun. 25th, 2009 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenCandy for the farmers market is running out, so we need more made. So today, L and I learned (or in his case re-learned from when he was a kid), how to make brick pops and brick sugar (same thing, different size rectangles the sugar gets put into), and molded soft candy. Marian learned decades ago and in her heyday she could do it all on her own. It takes two of us to more or less do the same thing :D But even she says it's much easier with two sets of eyes and hands to do things and keep track of things.
With her supervision we made the brick type sugar in the morning. Then a break for lunch, which got extended at first because she needed a longer break, and then because I was in the lower barn looking for a particular box and discovered that some of the chickens were down there. They'd found a hole and went exploring.... one on the same floor as the chicken room, and a five down one floor, where I was. Startling to say the least! I let the folks and L know. Marian caught the upper story one and the rest of worked on catching the other five. I was mostly a spotter and indirect herder, although I did make a try for the last one. She was quite clever and tricksy!
Then after a short rest, back to making candy, the softer type that goes into rubber molds that have all sorts of shapes. Most of them actually look pretty good :)
Tomorrow I get to wrap everything. L says he'll help when he can, but he does have a regular job after all, so we'll see how that all goes. We have some ideas on how to make doing up the boxed candies a little easier, so hopefully that will help.
With her supervision we made the brick type sugar in the morning. Then a break for lunch, which got extended at first because she needed a longer break, and then because I was in the lower barn looking for a particular box and discovered that some of the chickens were down there. They'd found a hole and went exploring.... one on the same floor as the chicken room, and a five down one floor, where I was. Startling to say the least! I let the folks and L know. Marian caught the upper story one and the rest of worked on catching the other five. I was mostly a spotter and indirect herder, although I did make a try for the last one. She was quite clever and tricksy!
Then after a short rest, back to making candy, the softer type that goes into rubber molds that have all sorts of shapes. Most of them actually look pretty good :)
Tomorrow I get to wrap everything. L says he'll help when he can, but he does have a regular job after all, so we'll see how that all goes. We have some ideas on how to make doing up the boxed candies a little easier, so hopefully that will help.
