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[asthran]

The AZ faire campgrounds opened yesterday. I have neighbors! Lots of them! No more will I need to take a stick, a couple rocks, and a flashlight to the privies, just in case. I forgot those on Saturday, and saw something approximately coyote-sized lope behind a bush. I ran back to re-arm pronto.

A coyote did bite someone last week, but from what I heard, it only bit through clothes and not skin. And there was that feral dog that was found in my coworker's tent; our local "Dog Whisperer" took it under his wing and was providing a good home for it, but a couple days later it went wild and attacked him. Mr. Dog Whisperer is currently heavily bandaged on both forearms and hands, and the dog was put down.

We've made mad amounts of chocolate at work. On Wednesday we got a ton of chocolate in (literally! 2500 lbs), and have made several thousand peanut butter, triple chocolate, and caromel pecan cups, and around 1500 chocolate covered bananas. We really need to be on the ball with production, as we have 7 days of faire within the first 10 days of faire opening - first weekend, followed by Kids Days on Tuesday and Thursday, followed by a three-day weekend for Presidents Day. This is likely to be standard operating procedure for the foreseeable future, as faire management has realized that Kids Days are great publicity, and wants to put them as early in the season as possible.

*hugs* to all.

Comments

[annan-dum.livejournal.com]

*drools* chocolate...
I should remember not to read your posts before breakfast.

[ashamanja-babu.livejournal.com]

Wow! Coyotes! That sounds a little. . unsettling.

[twink-q.livejournal.com]

"faire management has realized that Kids Days are great publicity, and wants to put them as early in the season as possible."

i wish that MRF could figure that out. especially the part about "early in the season." (grr five finger friday...)

anyway, have fun with chocolate and the lack of privy-coyotes!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the problem is, MRF is during August/September. School doesn't even start until after the third weekend, and schools aren't going to want to send their kids on a field trip before they've even settled in to the school routine. It would be nice if they could make it a week earlier though.

[gem-handler.livejournal.com]

Privy-coyotes, that's funny. In a sad, sad way.

Ton of chocolate? Pre-mixed or do you have to mix as well as shape it? Holy Moly Batman, TON?? You have a refrigerated thing, I hope?

[asthran.livejournal.com]

Yes, there is one walk-in freezer, two highly air conditioned cold rooms, one medium-sized (4'x3'x5'?) freezer, and four little home-sized freezers that are used on faire days.

We mix as well as shape.

[klari.livejournal.com]

What's the deal with camping? Can tourists camp at AZ?

[asthran.livejournal.com]

See this post (http://asthran.livejournal.com/33441.html). Patrons can't camp; that's a TRF-only situation. There is a Holiday Inn just up the road though.

[socraticlaughtr.livejournal.com]

Two words: Ganache wrestling.

[dlblake.livejournal.com]

is there a point at which even a chocoholic would be !done! with chocolate?
I would think something in the neighborhood of a ton should do it. But I don't have any chocoholics on hand so...
Just wondering :D

[jinxalexander.livejournal.com]

coyotes are realtivly harmless unless someones been feeding them. They just keep the stray cat popluation in check.