The best laid plans ...

Yesterday, I had planned to be at my friend's stall at the Jacksonville Farmer's Market. I wanted to sell every beautiful cheese and milk product that I painstakingly packed in to the coolers and covered with ice. The Wainwright Dairy packages all their cheeses nicely and the milk is in it's jugs with the labels and dates etc., so I am going along fat, dumb and happy until I discuss renting a stall of my own.

I was directed to the Assistant General Manager and spoke with him for several minutes in his air conditioned office (that was a nice little break.) He was a very nice man and gave me some good advice. I took Mitch's advice today. I was on the phone most all day with various government offices trying to get the exact number and sizes of the hoops I must jump through to sell milk and cheese that is produced in a place that gets inspected four times a year. All is well if I sell my baked products made in a kitchen that is not inspected at all. I can do that, but banana bread loves milk as a meal mate (it loves coffee almost as much, but I have NO intention whatsoever, in trying to scale the coffee mountain .)

I spoke to people that were amazing and helped me so much and others that directed me up the ladder to people that I could not speak to today. I was told more than once, after my information had been extracted from me, that someone would call me back. One of the pieces of information I read today involved a $2500 fine + $100 per day until the infraction was corrected. I can not afford that kind of lesson, so once again, I believe God has spared me from my enthusiasm getting ahead of His timing.

I am in a predicament. I have friends and friends that are like family, and friends I haven't met yet, that want the product I can deliver, but I do not want to incur the wrath of "big brother". So I will wait patiently to do my hoop jumping another day. Meanwhile, I am taking names and numbers of people that want the good stuff. And I will blog the process. I hope this road leads to a beautiful outcome and that you will travel it with me.
Until later ~ Rita