tinkermell
<font color=purple>Th boards are going nuts!<br><f
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Mornin Ladies!!
Sorry I haven't been on much!
I'm going to be rather busy the next couple of weeks.
First, I'm helping my Mom make Valentine center pieces, for her garden club, and also some cupcakes and cutout cookies.
Then, the school that all my children grew up at, and the one the my DD now teaches 3rd grade at, is having a HUGE booth at the Agriculture Farm show here in our town. THis farm show is the biggest one in the world. People come from all over the place. My DH has been one of the head and leaders of this booth since it started. We sell steak sandwiches which people come near and far to buy. They are the best you will ever have.
Anyway, starting this Saturday, a bunch of us have to go and clean the booth up. It is our permanent one that the school owns. It is big enough to have 14 windows, and room enough inside to have two huge tables for wrapping the sandwiches, sinks, walls of buns, and so forth. All along the front underneath the windows there are troughs for sodas. We also sell homemade Porteguese beans. Outside are 3 huge BBQs and room for all of the condiments and grilled onions.
Sunday we start cutting the steaks by hand at the school cafeteria. Then they get sprinkled with our secret spice rub, that makes them so special, and put in big airtight tubs, and put into huge refrigerated trailers that we have rented for that week. That right there is a big process. About 50 people show up for that. We also have to cut meat on Monday night too.
When the time comes for selling the sandwiches it becomes an absolute madhouse. Each window doing the lunch hour will be 20 people long.
We sell about $35,000 to $40,000 dollars in sandwiches a day!!! I think last year on one day we hit the $42,000 mark!
Our booth is so poplular that all VIPs are usually bought to us. We have served our famous govenor,
and when Rudi was running for President, he came to our booth, and I personally sold him 17 sandwiches. That was fun! The paparazzi were all around, not to mention his guards, and the whole smear. That was quite an ordeal!!
This school fundraiser is sooooooooo big, that the school actually is out for that whole week. It allows for all staff and teachers to be able to join in the fun. It takes alot of parent volunteers too, to be able to do this magnitude of work. My job now is to count the money, and to secretly get to the bank.
I do it with 2 other ladies of course. Everynight at home, I have to go through all the business cards that have charged the food. Alot of big companies will give business cards to their prospective or good customers with our official "Sundale School" name stamped on them. Last year we probably had about 50 companies do this. This adds up to alot of charges that later we will bill to the companies. Works pretty sweet.
Even though this whole thing is alot of fun, and you get to meet people from all over the world, it is exausting. Come Thursday night, I'm going to crash.
BUT the day after the Farm Show is over, my youngest DD Kaitlyn has a volleyball tournament in San Jose over President's Day Weekend.
So I'm off again.
Then, I get home, and I have to sew 10 pioneer bonnets for my DD's 3rd grade class.
(That smile was the closest to sewing i could get.)
Then I'm giving a baby shower for my niece on the 22nd.
Somewhere in this whole process, I'm trying to make a tote for this ladies trip that I signed up for to get away from it all!!
And I think this was the biggest post I have ever done. 
Sorry I haven't been on much!
I'm going to be rather busy the next couple of weeks.
First, I'm helping my Mom make Valentine center pieces, for her garden club, and also some cupcakes and cutout cookies.
Then, the school that all my children grew up at, and the one the my DD now teaches 3rd grade at, is having a HUGE booth at the Agriculture Farm show here in our town. THis farm show is the biggest one in the world. People come from all over the place. My DH has been one of the head and leaders of this booth since it started. We sell steak sandwiches which people come near and far to buy. They are the best you will ever have.
Anyway, starting this Saturday, a bunch of us have to go and clean the booth up. It is our permanent one that the school owns. It is big enough to have 14 windows, and room enough inside to have two huge tables for wrapping the sandwiches, sinks, walls of buns, and so forth. All along the front underneath the windows there are troughs for sodas. We also sell homemade Porteguese beans. Outside are 3 huge BBQs and room for all of the condiments and grilled onions.
Sunday we start cutting the steaks by hand at the school cafeteria. Then they get sprinkled with our secret spice rub, that makes them so special, and put in big airtight tubs, and put into huge refrigerated trailers that we have rented for that week. That right there is a big process. About 50 people show up for that. We also have to cut meat on Monday night too.
When the time comes for selling the sandwiches it becomes an absolute madhouse. Each window doing the lunch hour will be 20 people long.
We sell about $35,000 to $40,000 dollars in sandwiches a day!!!
I think last year on one day we hit the $42,000 mark! Our booth is so poplular that all VIPs are usually bought to us. We have served our famous govenor,
and when Rudi was running for President, he came to our booth, and I personally sold him 17 sandwiches. That was fun! The paparazzi were all around, not to mention his guards, and the whole smear. That was quite an ordeal!! This school fundraiser is sooooooooo big, that the school actually is out for that whole week. It allows for all staff and teachers to be able to join in the fun. It takes alot of parent volunteers too, to be able to do this magnitude of work. My job now is to count the money, and to secretly get to the bank.
I do it with 2 other ladies of course. Everynight at home, I have to go through all the business cards that have charged the food. Alot of big companies will give business cards to their prospective or good customers with our official "Sundale School" name stamped on them. Last year we probably had about 50 companies do this. This adds up to alot of charges that later we will bill to the companies. Works pretty sweet. Even though this whole thing is alot of fun, and you get to meet people from all over the world, it is exausting. Come Thursday night, I'm going to crash.
BUT the day after the Farm Show is over, my youngest DD Kaitlyn has a volleyball tournament in San Jose over President's Day Weekend.
So I'm off again.
Then, I get home, and I have to sew 10 pioneer bonnets for my DD's 3rd grade class.
(That smile was the closest to sewing i could get.) Then I'm giving a baby shower for my niece on the 22nd.
Somewhere in this whole process, I'm trying to make a tote for this ladies trip that I signed up for to get away from it all!!
And I think this was the biggest post I have ever done.
