2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[heirloomgal]

Well @Blue-Jay the comedic postal sagas continue. I went to the post office today with the idea of mailing your 2nd box and, low and behold, the federal computer program they use for creating the stickers for packages & tracking is down and out. Apparently this began yesterday morning, and thus far, has resulted in some near brawls at the postal counter. I'm quite friendly with this postal lady as she's worked there for as long as I've been mailing stuff and she shared the scoop that I'm fortunate to have avoided the various colourful spectacles of impatience among upset customers (I was alone when I went this afternoon). So, I will go back tomorrow and see if the program is working again yet, and I think I might put on a helmet just in case. What a year so far of mailing beans and it's only January!!! Strikes, increases, brawls...what next?

On the positive side of today, I was elated to find a mailer full of beans from Spain in my mailbox! I did a trade with a really nice grower there, she's a real bean afficionado too, and looky looky at the goodies she sent! I'm especially interested in the Blue Sword pole beans! Kinda thrilling!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Well @Blue-Jay the comedic postal sagas continue. I went to the post office today with the idea of mailing your 2nd box and, low and behold, the federal computer program they use for creating the stickers for packages & tracking is down and out. Apparently this began yesterday morning, and thus far, has resulted in some near brawls at the postal counter.

Eventually all this crazy stuff with machines being down and people being impatient will settle down and go away eventually. It's too bad it's been so crazy with the mail strike and all. It's unpleasant to have to put up with it but the winds of change will blow it all away.

I'm not leaving for Florida this winter. Bean sales are just too good to shut off and take a vacation. I'll go visit my long time friend in November when things are rather slow anyway. If I don't get the bean shelling done by November I'll have that to do after the middle of December when I return.

 

[heirloomgal]

Eventually all this crazy stuff with machines being down and people being impatient will settle down and go away eventually. It's too bad it's been so crazy with the mail strike and all. It's unpleasant to have to put up with it but the winds of change will blow it all away.

I'm not leaving for Florida this winter. Bean sales are just too good to shut off and take a vacation. I'll go visit my long time friend in November when things are rather slow anyway. If I don't get the bean shelling done by November I'll have that to do after the middle of December when I return.

How are you feeling these days? You surgery was not even a year ago, and that was a major operation?