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Cold weather and slow shipping

February 14, 2007 by  
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As I whined in my last post about it being cold, the weather just became colder here in Missouri!  Since we are located off side roads, actually on a dirtroad, driving conditions aren’t great unless you might be using 4 wheel drive.  FedEx and UPS both called that my shipments couldn’t be delivered yesterday, so you can guess I am not about to go to them if they can’t make it up our road!  Here’s a picture from inside the shop on the 13th of the back woods – yes, there are trees all the way back and you can’t see them!  It’s was 10 degrees at that point.

So I thought it wouldn’t be any worse, and figured what’s the best thing to do when you can’t go out and have orders?  Make soy milk soap! By making soap and letting it stay very cold during set up, it becomes very creamy white – so I made soy soaps all day.  I figure I would go out on the 14th.

shopBotanical Earth shop in snow on Valentines DayBut when the 14th came, I had to dig out to GET to the shop the next morning!  Beautiful day, picture perfect but it’s now ZERO degrees….can I whine any more about it being cold?  Ok, I know it’s not snow in New York, but I didn’t think it would be so cold.  That soy soap is going to be white for sure.  For those that have asked, here’s a picture of my shop, it’s not my house - the building is devoted totally to the wonderful world of body care and soapmaking. I can never complain about where I work because the woods are always so pretty all season.

So the 15th, orders will resume again now that I can finally get the tractor out to plow.  There’s plenty of soy milk soap in the molds that’s for certain!

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