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We are really excited about two projects that are underway with two different parrot sanctuaries that are interested in our products.  The idea of being able to provide our nutritious foods and foraging rolls for birds that may have been through trauma, abandonment, etc. is a wonderful feeling!  They certainly need it more than any!  We have been working on developing another version of the UnPellet mix to make it more affordable. This has been a big challenge since the we don't want to make the food less nutritious. But some of the ingredients cost US $20.00 a pound!  So we are trying to make some choices of just a few things to leave out and some very nutritious grains like kamut to add.  This other UnPellet mix will be available on our web site, too, as soon as we get more equipment to be able to produce for the increasing volume we will be making. 

We have uploaded some new photos here in the photo albums: photos.phoenixforagingrolls.com/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=318746  .  You may be interested to see that they show some of the products being made.  It's particularly interesting to see how much the food shrinks when dehydrating.

Many of you are trying our new Crispy Rice Snacks and Organic Snack Sticks that are available now on our new web site.  We know some of you are still eagerly awaiting being able to buy the Kwackers. The holdup with the Kwackers is figuring up the cost, since there are so many ingredients. The business end of this is not our best talent. 

We have another new product that we should be adding soon.  I will describe it and I think it will get your curiosity up.  It is a smaller pinata but instead of the corn husk and rice paper wrappers, it will be a filled fruit pod.  Inside will be dried foods and it will be sealed off with green chunks.  It will be hung on a leather cord, like our other pinata, and will have a vine ball on top of the pod to add to the challenge of getting the food out. We think you and your birds will love these. We're currently testing them with our own birds and hope to have them available soon!

Do I dare?  Could it really be finished?  All done by little ole' me? 

Last night, Robert came over to help me with my web site.  I was feeling pretty despondent about ever getting it up and making this business work.  I know that the flood three weeks ago had added greatly to the feeling of being overwhelmed with more than one person can handle.  I know that many customers would be upset if I sold or quit this business and I enjoy what I do. But I had gotten to the point with the added work and expenses of the flood, that I just couldn't keep up. 

Luckily, I've had some very understanding and kind customers.  I also felt good last night after Robert looked over the GoDaddy software that I am using.  He does web site from scratch with html and he found the GoDaddy software to be complicated to try to figure out. That alone made me feel better about the struggles I have been having with it.  He also figured out a few things for me, like how to put links on each part of the site to the others. 

This is going to be good if I get it up!  I want to do it before the end of this month, at least in a basic form.  I want people to have something new to see and to use for their orders for the holidays.  I paid for this site in JULY and this is late November. So it is TIME!!

So there is this blog, there is an area for photos, there is the Smart Space stuff which is a bunch of stuff on one page, that I guess will be parrot related (haven't really figured that out), there is my store, and there is the web site tonight site.  All of this needs to be tied together into one in a way that will make sense and be helpful to customers. 

Lucy

I have decided to do my own web site.  The person I had for my original site did a great job when she did it but she started her own site and lost interest in mine.  So I've had changes I've wanted since January '09 that have not happened. So FINALLY I am going to have a new web site with the content I want.  It will be totally different.  It will have its own URL (I've owned the domain names all along) and will have a blog, a photo site, a chat, a store, and MORE!  I hope you like it and will contribute to the blog and photos, etc...  I'm not even sure of the possibilities right now. 

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