Its been a bit of a rollercoaster week actually. We continue to try and develop our Ormiston baby snags (latest name...still thinking). After eating enough fat and cholesterol to clog my arteries many times over and just when the thought of another sausage was intolerable I think we pretty much got the recipe right. It has been tested on a few kids, other than our own, and the next step is to try them on a few more... so far all comments are good. Earlier on in the week we decided to start signing up for the farmers markets around us, only to be told that they all had pork producers (not free range) and didn't want any more pork. My attempts at explaining the difference was pretty much met with 'well pork is pork'. This, frankly, is more than a bit of a blow for us. If we can't go to the farmers markets we can't really sell our product. If we can't sell it at the markets then we can't really build up slowly and we may as well chuck in the towel. This defeatist attitude only grabbed hold for a bit and then we rallied. A few calls to Sydney markets soon cheered us up with much excitement from the managers at the thought that we might be coming down there sooner than we thought. After coming back with enough pork to make our visitors sick of coming over here from Dubbo we took a risk and sent another 4 off for the Mudgee markets. There was much nail biting and looking at the clouds building on Thursday and Friday - a little torn because we are desperately in need of rain but were aware that if it arrived on Saturday during the markets it would affect how many people would show up.
Mudgee didn't let us down and we sold out of everything once again by 10.30 - what was fantastic was seeing so many familiar people who had bought last month come back again this month with lots of positive comments. Both of us were completely wired after finishing at 12.00pm and came home and collapsed in front of the tv with the kids. We spent the afternoon in front of the fire watching it rain intermittently and hoping it might chuck it down and give everything a good drenching. Despite lots of dark clouds and heavy winds (and freezing temperatures) it remains fairly dry...