High Winds

Quite a ride in this morning. As I have mentioned earlier, we live on San Juan Island in Washington state. The only way to and from the island is by ferry. Our ferry ride is over 90 minutes, one way. Well this morning we woke to a low front blowing in from the Pacific. Winds are being clocked at over 80 mph on the coast. We are not far from the coast and I was anticipating a bumpy ride and was not disappointed.
I am a boater and used to the motion of a boat and I get excited when things get out of the ordinary. So this morning (I catch the 6am ferry) I was looking forward to the ride. The ferry tried to stay inside the islands as much as possible ( see a map at: http://www.guidetosanjuans.com/maps.htm). but had to take a detour south in order to stay faced into the waves. We leave from Friday Harbor and go to Anacortes. I am not sure the exact route we took as it was too dark to see until we were arriving in Anacortes.
For those of you who live in the southern climes. Here in the northwest are days get exceedingly short this time of year. The sun comes up around 7:30 am and goes down around 4pm. Contrast that with our summers when daylight lasts 18 hours. It is kind of depressing when you don't see the sun for a week or more (you go to work in the dark and leave work in the dark).
Anyway the ferry plowed into some sizable waves and the boat did some significant shuttering. These are not small boats and carry quite a few cars. This is the second such crossing I've made this year and the storm season is just beginning.
At the cookie plant we are expecting to get our container delivered tomorrow with the packaging for our private label project and the labels for Canada.
Canada is kinda interesting in labeling. Here we do everything bilingual in English and Spanish. Up north they require us to print in English and French. So that requires us to do all different packaging for our friends up there.
Canadians are ahead of us on the recognition of celiac and gluten intolerances. I assume that is because of their close ties to the EU.
We are scheduled to run 25, 140 quart batches today.
WAIT A MINUTE! Just received a call from the trucking lines and the container will be here today. Just ran out to the floor and adjusted everyone's schedule to make sure we have enough people on hand to unload (they only give you and hour to unload a 40 foot container, none of which is palletized).
This is a good thing and saves us an extra step in the packing process.
Enjoy your day everyone. TTYL