I’m glad it’s Friday! This week was a busy one and the weekend looks like it will be busy too!

I have wholesale orders to deliver, soap to make and a custom birthday basket to ship and hubs is lining up to get more firewood. He got an early birthday present last weekend (his birthday is not until December!) and has been out playing with it….
Can you say…Log Splitter!

Those are rounds we got last weekend and let me tell you that’s the hardest wood I have ever seen….I forgot what kind of wood it is but it took 3 wedges and a lot of sweat (his, not mine!) to split one huge round. So off to Lowes we went!

Email Responders
I never 100% trust that emails will reach their destination so to let our customers know we received their emails I had set up auto-responders stating that, yes we received your email and will respond within 24 hrs.

Funny thing about auto-responders…
They can bounce responses between other auto-responders!
Yesturday I had had enough….we’ve had auto-responders for a long time and I finally got tired of deleting bounces so I disable/deleted/nuked all of our email auto-responders!
It has cleaned up my in-box alot!

Birthday
A few weeks ago it was my birthday so I wanted to share a few things that I received.

Starbucks Gift Cards from my dad (thanks dad!) These are most welcome in our household in ANY denomination!

Needless to say…..I have zero balances on both of those cards…but the coffee was good!

I love birds. We have 3 bird feeders and a bird bath outside. Our backyard is filled with birds…all….the….time. We spend a fortune on bird seed and suet but we enjoy them so much we don’t mind.

We also have finch inside (zebra, society and gouldians with associated babies!).

So how fitting is this gift from my mom and step-dad??!!
It is a planter and fountain all in one!
I LOVE this!
Put a little dish soap in the tub, plug in the pump and we have bubbles!

Close Up

For a long time I have wanted a Flip …not to make movies mind you…but to take little clips every now and again….you know…bits and pieces of ….stuff!

My dearest hubs got me the Mino HD and I love it! It’s just slightly bigger than my cell phone and is simple and easy to use. It is so easy to use there is NO instruction manual! Basically you just plug it into your computer to charge it up, then point and hold the red button down and you are recording!

I’ve only had time to play with it a time or two so I’m hoping this weekend I can practice a little more. All I can say is…Way Cool!

That’s it for today and we will see you back here next week.

Fall starts next week and here in Washington state it’s going to be in the 80′s! I’m almost thinking I’m missing the gray clouds and the rain!

Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco-Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products

www.countrymeadowltd.com