just be good to each other: Baking = A Fantastic Workout!

Monday, June 23, 2008

Baking = A Fantastic Workout!

I have been baking dog treats all weekend and my muscles are SO sore!! I am making three flavors -- cheese, peanut butter, and sunflower/mint (breath fresheners) -- and each $5 bag includes all three flavors. I had, at first, aimed at producing 100 bags... but, after my first couple of batches, I realized what a huge undertaking that was. So now I have cut it down to 25 and I'm hoping to sell all of them on Saturday.

I never knew how strenuous baking is though! Maybe it's because I've never been one to exercise, but all that kneading and rolling, etc. just exhausts me! I have found it very therapeutic, however, and would love to eventually turn this into a real business. I would be in perfect shape then!

I have really thrown everything I have into this. I think about it all the time and it's fun to have something to work on. Plus, it's a way to get the word out about the Humane Society. I have printed up information flyers to go in each bag and I have a "Did You Know?" sign with information for people who are just browsing and not buying. I also have pictures of some of the animals at the shelter and I am going to paste one to the front of each bag. Now, I'm just crossing my fingers for good weather and a big crowd at the Market!

More updates later this week...

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"Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." -- George Eliot
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." -- Bradley Miller
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Unknown
"They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden; where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace." - Milan Kundera
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made." - M. Acklam
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." - Albert Schweitzer
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery
"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly." - Henry David Thoreau
"The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way." - Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good." - Minor Myers, Jr.
"Alway do right - it will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Albert Einstein
"In moments of joy, all of us wish we possessed a tail we could wag." - W.H. Auden
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"- Mary Oliver
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France
"This world is a dangerous place, not only because of the evil doers, but also because of the ones who choose to do nothing about it." - Albert Einstein