Sitting in at a clients business
One of the things I’ve always liked about what I do is meeting the people and learning what they do. I’ve gotten a great and varied bit of knowledge about many things. This all through just learning about the business for which I am working on a site. A little about manufacturing, horse breeding, apartment building, Classic Wing motorcycles, and more. It’s like being a Renaissance man.
One site that I worked on about a year ago was for Cooking Thyme. This is one of those places you sign up for a session and choose some meals. Then when you go they help you prepare the food. Afterwards, you take it home, freeze it and then is ready to cook at some later time. Always sounded like fun and that’s what this site was for.
It was a good site to work on. A good mixture of things that we’ve done and can do easily like members only area with login, calendar, content management, etc. Added to that there was some good new programming like connecting the calendar to sessions and a menu and keeping track of sessions and how many people were signed up.
The site, as I mentioned, has been done for about a year. We’ve added and changed a few things, but all in all it has been running great. So recently I signed up for a session.
My wife and I went and had a great time. We met Kathy and Nancy, the owners, whom I’ve emailed but never met before. They were great. The place is just big enough for what you need to do and is very clean and comfy. Everything was laid out and waiting for us. And this wasn’t just a rack of spices sitting there. Everything was fresh and hand cut. Very few things were spices from a jar. The recipes looked wonderful and once we got going, smelled great and looked even better.
Now I’m not the best cook in the world. This past Christmas I burnt up a mixer making cookies with my daughter. I even need to use the recipe still to make Cream of Wheat. That is particularly bad because we have Cream of Wheat 3 or 4 times a month. Even with my cooking definciencies, this was easy and fun. Bobbi and I went through each one and had a good time. It was like being a kid again and goofing around instead of what you were supposed to be doing.
A couple hours later we had six very scrumptious looking meals ready to go. We haven’t tried them yet since we are saving them for one of those rush times when we know we’ll need it. The whole experience was so fun that we started wondering who we could go with the next time.
So, all in all, a very good experience. Like my Tivo thinking, this is the same thing. The cost is only slightly higher than buying everything yourself. But there was no long preparing which I hate. There was no cleaning up after preparing. And now we have 6 meals ready to go. I’ve never sat down and in 2 hours prepared 6 meals to freeze and eat. This is well worth my time and money considering my busy life with work and kids and a wife in school. For everyone reading, please take some time and sign up for a session to see how it goes. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how great it is.