the PO f#$ks up but I come through....

In shipping from the PO the last, say, 6 years, thousands of items have got where they are going, no probs.  (I ship 500+ items a year) Only one or 2 broken pots, there is a lot of trouble shipping to Canada, but that does not count as they almost ALWAYS do something strange up there, and I have shipped teasets to Ireland and Singapore with no problem...even mugs to Bosnia and Australia....
but this elephant mug, a month ago, to Boston? Bizarre.  You have tracking for a reason, and NY to Boston is usually an easy one-two day trip.  This mug bounced around FIVE Boston area post offices, etc etc etc, and just got back here.  Last week, being the angel that I am, in trying to make customers VERY happy, sent a replacement to the customer...which arrived safely in one day.  The original finished its Boston sightseeing and arrived back here yesterday.....box OPEN as you see...but mug intact.  WTF?


If you were wondering why I have made so much beer bread, pizza, beans etc lately, it is because I recently bought some new beers and....I don't like their flavor.  Ick.  But it is good for SOMETHING! Yesterday I tried a simple whole wheat beer bread recipe *** and holy CATS it is awesome and easy!


***simple whole wheat beer bread

Grease a loaf pan and preheat oven to 350

sift into large bowl:

1.5 cups white flour and

1.5 cups whole wheat flour 

then stir into that:

4.5 teasp. baking powder and

1.5 teasp. salt and

1/3 cup packed brown sugar

then pour a 12 oz bottle of beer into that, stir to combine, using your hands in the bowl to knead it around until it is nicely combined, form into a loaf shape, place in greased pan, bake about 55 minutes

PERFECT!