Comments for Honey Run

Comment on Random Ramble by Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:08:28 +0000

Homer Price and Henry Reed! It’s been so long that I had to look ‘em up… Is Paul ready for The Great Brain yet?

Comment on Random Ramble by Davene Grace

Davene Grace — Sat, 25 May 2013 04:03:43 +0000

I’m not sure I qualify in the “wise readers” category, but here are my two cents anyway! If I were you, I would limit my baking to one day a week. To me, that seems like a happy medium–it reduces your time commitment (and presumably, your stress level) while still keeping your foot in the door, so to speak, and keeping your customers somewhat satisfied. If you only bake every Friday, for example, they’ll quickly learn to expect that, and I think the adjustment could be smooth. But what do I know?

Paul’s comment “I can tell you don’t know much about it” made me laugh!!

Comment on Jasmine Hair by Katie Lahman

Katie Lahman — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:17:53 +0000

I love both of their hair!! But Maries cracks me up!! Tell her that since God hasn’t given her long thick hair like Hannah’s yet, He makes hers stick out straight!!

Comment on Jasmine Hair by Davene Grace

Davene Grace — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:52:07 +0000

I’m taking notes so that a few years from now, when I have to do something with Moriah’s hair, I’ll have some ideas for what to do!!

Aladdin, by the way, is one of my most favorite movies ever!!

Comment on Jasmine Hair by Miriam

Miriam — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:53:42 +0000

LOL, Marie’s Pippi pigtail is a hoot! I’m glad they were able to get their movie watched. Looks like y’all are enjoying the warm weather!

Comment on Travels for Mother’s Day by Davene Grace

Davene Grace — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:49:37 +0000

Whew, what an adventure! Of such things are sweet memories made.

I REALLY like that family picture of you all!!

Comment on The Baker & The Baker’s Man by Sally

Sally — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:51:13 +0000

Well…that might involve drawing a diagram and creating a flow-chart! Maybe I can show you with a mock-up tomorrow when we are there for your graduation party.

Part of it involves mixing up all the icing and putting almost half of it in a bag the night before (so I can snip the end off the bag and squeeze it out onto the cookies).

Another part is getting up at 3:00 a.m. and starting to mix up the HUGE dishpans of dough (it nearly over-did my hand mixer). I started baking the cookies at 4:30 (because it took that long to get the dough beat together; I made it in two large dishpans).

One more trick is I loaded the dough into a huge bag and cut a corner off (of course I had to refill it at times) and squeezed the dough out onto the cookie sheets. This helped have round, uniform cookies, and it saved a lot of time since I could go “blop-blop-blop” squeezing out dough blobs rather than going through 5 times the motions dipping it out of the bowl with a spoon and scraper.

The cookies bake for 8 minutes in my oven, so I did 4 min. on the bottom rack, then 4 min. on the top rack. I then let them cool a few minutes, scooped them onto cooling racks, and reloaded the cookie sheet. I only ever used 3 cookie sheets–two in the oven, and one in the unloading/loading zone. After unloading it, I scraped the crumbs into the trash can before reloading it.

In the few moments I was waiting on something to bake, I would ice and wrap the cool cookies. I did make the mistake of stacking them in rows on their sides like Oreos in boxes (that then went in the freezer). However, this created a flat side which wasn’t very attractive.

Oh, one more trick–I started with a clean kitchen! That always makes things go better.

One thing that was a challenge was finding more than 8 seconds to take a bathroom break!

Comment on The Baker & The Baker’s Man by Laura Bowen

Laura Bowen — Fri, 10 May 2013 02:58:29 +0000

Wow!!! 225 whoopie pies all done by 10:00 am with a single, reg. oven…very impressive…I’d be interested in an email about what your set up and method was.

Comment on “Mommy! There’s water! There’s water!” by Katie Lahman

Katie Lahman — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:33:12 +0000

I can just imagine Paul’s reaction!! I know it wasn’t fun for you to experience, but this was fun to read!!

Comment on “Mommy! There’s water! There’s water!” by Davene Grace

Davene Grace — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:32:36 +0000

Oh no! I remember our toilet flooding like that when I was a kid, but it hasn’t happened in many years…maybe because we have a different toilet now? I’m so sorry you had to experience this!!

Never a dull moment at your house, is there?