It gets better each day

I keep getting more orders each day and I am so amazed by the range of customers. I've got people ordering from all over the place. I guess the word spreads fast when you do parties and that whole six degrees of separation concept means that each person that I've met somehow could potentially reach another six people and this turns into a huge exponential explosion of customers.
That boggles my mind and it also makes me say, "Cool."

I showed off my little cake creations today and people were impressed then I donated them to the North Shore Animal League for the dogs there. I donated three cakes and after explaining what was in them, I am hoping that I could do some parties for the shelter dogs and their adoptathons at the shelter as well as the parties I've been doing for the Party Animals. I do like that organization a lot because the dogs always seem very well cared for and the volunteers are always really nice.

Another good thing, I got word from a few stores that are interested in stocking my treats. That's adding up and it helps a lot that they are in really different and remote places. I'm trying to expand as much as possible outside of the NYC area because it just seems like there are a lot of people out there who have no clue about parties for dog owners and their dogs. I went to a party planner today and told her what I do and asked her if she does anything like dog parties and she looked at me like I had a cactus growing out of my head. Then she cocked her head to the side, much like Katie does when she is listening and perhaps trying to comprehend my nonsensical blatherings, and she said, "You do dog wha?" Then to make things a little more bizarre, she called her colleague into the room and said, "Hey! You know, she does dog parties?!" The man looked at me and said, "You bake for humans too?" Obviously, they are looking for a baker to do their events, so I said, "Yes, I do." I really do bake pretty well actually for people. I've made some sinfully amazing devil's food cupcakes for Valentine's day. "My dog only eats dry stuff." I said, "My treats are really dry." He laughed and walked away. Oh well, so much for my sales pitching. Well, the lady wished me good luck with my "business" and sent me on my way.

I got some nice raves about my treats from two very prominent news type people. You can see it on my website here:

http://www.honeybark.com/speak.html

The newspaper, the Star Ledger also is going to have a little nice word about my treats this Sunday, August 20, 2006. I'm really excited to see that. I wanted to thank Joan Smith for making that happen. She said her Husky really liked the Banana Bliss treats. Those are the little miniature banana pies.

I ate the top off Katie's Carob cake and she really gave me a hard time about it. She stepped on my foot and just looked at me. I mean she gave me a long hard stare. Then she ran over to her kibble and ate a whole lot of it as if to say, "You aren't getting ANY of my grub!" Wow. Talk about sharing and caring? Geez. You'd think that if I share my dinner with her, she'd share her dried out little nutritious pellet stuff with me. No way.

Katie go BOOM!
Katie and I were horsing around today with her little ropey toy when she decided to make a break for it and ran into the kitchen with me chasing her. I know. You aren't supposed to play chasing games with your dog but well, I've been playing this with her since she was a puppy and she loves this game. Plus, she is way too old to stop playing it and we have a good old time, I get to run around, she gets to run around and we have a lot of fun. Well, today we were running and she turned around to see where I was in the catching up to her part of the game and she ran right into the seat of a chair. She's short so it whacked her right in the temple. I heard the clunk. It was a sick kinda hollow "thunk." and she dropped the rope toy from her mouth and sorted of sproinged off the chair like a little pinball. She stopped and shook her head then took her paw and swatted at the side of her head that she had hit for a minute, shook her head again then looked at me with her big tongue waggling grin. I looked at her, checked her out, rubbed her head a little then watched her just kind of wander off. She had left the rope toy on the floor where it had dropped out of her mouth. I picked it up and was going to put it away when she saw me out of the corner of her eye and ran right over to grab it and tug. Wow. I wish MY head was that sturdy. Katie is such a trooper. She wanted to play for a little bit longer then we both pooped out and I went back to my emailing and she went to lie down on the floor.

Ugh. I have to report for jury duty tomorrow. Blah. Not that I hate it but it's kind of boring. I guess I will just bring a book with me or work on recipes or something.