Country Meadow Ltd. will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday from Thursday, May 24 through Monday, May 28, 2012. We be open and start processing orders on Tuesday, May, 29, 2012.
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
Today I learned about MX Records…
And all is well.
(whisper: ALL of our emails are working now)
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
http://www.countrymeadowltd.com/
Um…Yea….
If you tried to go to our website or this blog the last couple of days or even sent us email…
And you didn’t get anywhere…
That was my fault.
To make a long story short…
I was making ‘adjustments’ through our domain hosting company and screwed up.
I thought I was doing one thing and ended up doing something totaly different.
Which caused everything to disappear.
From all appearances it all looks to be working….
However if you sent us an email in the last 2-3 days and we didn’t respond or it was bounced back please send it again. We didn’t get it!
And I promise to keep my fingers out of where they don’t belong even though I will say after this I am pretty familiar on how to redirect DNS IP addresses!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
http://www.countrymeadowltd.com/
Yes and ….no.
Ooops!
When I check our email from my office computer the ones I delete are actually deleted from the server it pulls them from.
But apparently when I check our email on the road through logging in directly to the server the ones I delete are not actually deleted. They don’t show up on our office computer however they still seem to be on the server.
So if you have emailed us at sales(at)countrymeadowltd(dot)com over the last two days and got a return email saying our mailbox was full….it was…and wasn’t!
Please email us again. I have fixed the issue!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
I wasn’t going to buy it until I saw it with my own eyes.
Usually when the weatherpeople talk about snow it never comes.
They warned us for a week it was coming.
Yea right.
It came.
Not only did it come but it came in a huge way.
You would think living in Washington state we would get snow on a regular basis….
We don’t.
We get rain.
The snow lasted a week and it snowed every day.
We got around 9″ which is huge here.
I stayed home each and every day and worked my butt off making soap.
It’s disappearing now.
Temperatures, even overnight, are now above freezing.
And….
As Usual….
I’ts raining!
Here are a few pictures of SnowMageddon 2012.
Brodie & Jasper playing in the snow
Backyard with about 8"? of snow
Icicles on The Truck
Our Street
Flower pots
Butterfly bush weighed down by snow
Snow casualty: Rosemary branch broken
Jasper thinking it's just too damn cold out here!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
It’s the end of yet another year…
One that was busier than most…in more ways than one.
We have quite a few new products we are working on for 2012 and are quite excited to bring in many new scents!
We would like to wish everyone and their families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Our holiday hours are as follows:
Country Meadow will be closed for the Christmas holiday from Friday, December 23, 2011 through Sunday, January 1, 2012.
We will reopen for order processing on Monday, January 2, 2012.
Thank you for reading our blog, following us on Twitter and Facebook and purchasing our products.
It means the world to us as a small business to earn your respect and confidence in our company.
Sincerely,
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
Whew…..Just auto-upgraded our blog to the newest version…
Always makes me nervous…
Mostly because if something goes wrong I don’t know how to fix it…
At the moment…
All seems well…
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
But especially my own…
I want to thank all of the husbands out there…especially my own…
For his unwavering, uncomplaining and loyal help this year in helping me peddle our wares at so many venues!!!
We did a record number of shows, festivals and craft bazaars and I can’t begin to tell you just how much work and effort goes into getting ready and setting up for each show.
I couldn’t do it without his help.
Thank you honey for your help this year.
I am happy to say we did our last show yesterday so we can now take a few months off to recuperate and concentrate on restocking product and creating new merchandise.
I plan on a full (of not fuller) show schedule next year!!
(did I just hear a groan?)…..
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
It has been a couple of years since we have cleaned up our website database so I went ahead and did this today.
All website accounts that have not been active in the last two years have been deleted.
This means if you have not logged in to your account or placed any orders with the last two years the account was deleted.
We do this to keep our database managable and not over burdened with inactive accounts.
So if you try to log in to your account and can’t most likely it’s because it had been inactive.
All you have to do is create a new one!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
September 1, 2011….
Wow….I feel like fall never left and here it is again!
**Summer here didn’t start until August….about the second week it started getting really nice. Now I see next week we could ver well hit 90 degrees! I’m keeping my fingers crossed our summer continues on through October…While the entire rest of the country sweltered….we grew mold.
**Jasper (6 month old AmStaff) and Brodie (16 month old Amstaff) (cousins) are the best of friends. They are never without each other and even though Jasper is smaller than Brodie he runs the show.
**We had a scare with Brodie. They were playing, Jasper with a stick in his mouth, and Brodie somehow (I wasn’t here but hubs saw it) got stuck pretty hard in the eye with it. So hard he yelped. Afterwards he was having trouble with his eye so we took him to the vet. After staining his eye it was determined he had what looked like a piece of wood in the cornea. Since my vet didn’t feel comfortable messing with his eye she put him on antibiotic eye drops until we could get in to the eye specialst the following day.
Dr. Sullivan with the Animal Eye Clinic in Seattle was very kind in working Brodie in between his other appointments. After a brief look in Brodies eye he said all he had to do was numb the eye (with eye drops) and he could in fact remove the wood debris!
He took Brodie into another room for the procedure and had him back to me in about 5 minutes! Amazing!!!!! Brodie didn’t make a peep with either this vet or our regular vet. He is such a sweet, docile, loving dog he just stood there and let them poke around his eye all the while giving them kisses!
After a week of antibiotic eye drops every 4 hours Brodies eye is just fine. It could have turned out so much worse and in fact had we not started the antibiotic eye drops the day before he very well could have lost his eye due to infection!
My hat off to both Dr. Jones of Lynnwood VCA and Dr. Sullivan of the Eye Clinic!
**Behind…..
I’m running behind. I have a good grip on our fall products but truth be told I should now be working on Christmas soap! We have many, many shows this year along with our web sales and wholesale accounts so I’m trying to guestimate from last years sales how much product to have this year…then double it!
It’s a holiday weekend tomorrow so I will be busting my chops to get a lot done!
**I celebrated a birthday last month. It’s one I was just going to let quietly slip by…kids coming over for bbq dinner and cake..nothing fancy….
However….
My family (and I have a VERY good idea who the driving force was!!!) however decided to do something very different!
They threw me a very suprise birthday party!
Totaly and complete unexpected!
I won’t go into details except to say my husband and adult daughters did a wonderful job in keeping the lid on and getting me there on time.
I want to thank my entire family for the party.
It was fabulous to see everyone together…something we don’t get to do too often.
Oh..and the over-the-hill gifts…
Um yea…
I hate to say it but I actually can use most of them!
Enough for now…..
It’s just barely 8:00 pm and it’s dark already…
I am feverishly working on soap boxes and have hundreds to do…
I will be burning the candle late and keeping our Keurig busy!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com