Greetings all,

As promised an update about the on-farm sales. We will continue to have Saturday mornings available (9 am to noon) for those who are interested to come see the farm and purchase chicken, eggs and beef. We do have beef available now!

This Saturday it will be my mom, Susan, who will be there to meet any who can come. I encourage you to come see the farm and her!

Cody and I will be at the North Little Rock Argenta market this Saturday. Perhaps we will see some of you there.

In other news, the turkey chicks arrived! They are pretty cute. All is going good on the farm. Keeping busy!

Have a safe and happy 4th!

Andrea

Greetings again to you all from Falling Sky Farm!

So much for more frequent updates! Summer is upon us already following a very busy Spring!

An intern, 10 calves, 3,300 chickens, 75 laying hen chicks, 49 ducks and lots of work later here we still are! A lot has happened in the last few months since my last post. Market season is in full swing. There is fencing to be done, deliveries to be made, chickens to process, a turkey tractor to be built (the turkey chicks arrive this week, 225!).

The biggest news is that we are going to begin doing on-farm sales starting this Saturday (June 27th) from 9am-12pm. It will be a chance for those of you who want to come see the farm and purchase chicken, eggs, and beef (we should have some by this weekend if all goes as planned). If this Saturday goes well we are going to try to have someone here from 9-12 every Saturday to handle sales. I will write another post after this weekend and let you know what we decide on that. Hopefully this will help build more local sales, so spread the word!

from 2 to 12 to 10, we have a herd now!

The ten calves we got the first of May are now all trained to the electric fence (with the excellent role models of our two overwintered cattle it was much easier than last year)! The heifer and steer we overwintered have gone to be processed. That was a sad day. But it is why we have them, and I am excited to try what is sure to be the wonderful beef they will provide for us, and for some of you. They lived very good lives, had some adventures, lots of wonderful lush grass, good company, and were in general very contented cows. Moving them twice a day and spending so much time with them I really enjoyed them and miss them, however, they will be very much appreciated in their new form. I am enjoying getting to know the new calves and they are settling into their new routine very well, standing at the fence in the morning and evening anticipating their move to the grass that is “greener on the other side of the fence,” and do they ever enjoy it when they get to move!

Gabe has been a huge help since he arrived the second week of May. I don’t know how we ever did it without him! Aside from participating in all the regular chores and fencing, chicken tractor building, processing and marketing he also has a summer project of his own. Ducks. 50 (now 49 due to a casualty in the brooder) ducklings arrived a week after he did. They were in the brooder for two weeks. That gave Gabe, with the assistance of Zack, our part-time help, time to construct a duck tractor (same as a chicken tractor, but with the obvious difference of being for ducks…). They move twice a day on pasture as they are quite messy. They really enjoy their swimming pools (two short-sided feed tubs) and love to get sprayed with the hose. They all turn to face the spray and flap their little wings and make happy peeps and quacks. Pretty comical! Of course, they will be for eating as well, and part of Gabe’s experience will be with the processing, but for now they are enjoying being ducks, and we enjoy caring for them and observing them. They have a couple more weeks before their last day. And, well, then we will have ducks available for those who are interested in trying organically fed, pasture-raised duck! Sure to be delicious.

The laying hens early this spring

The laying chicks we got the end of March will be laying soon. We got 75 pullets (just the girls) who have now joined the rest of the flock. They come running to see whichever of us feeds them in the morning from wherever in their netting-enclosed section of pasture they were searching for bugs and the most tender pieces of grass and weeds. They get moved a couple times a week to a new area of the pasture, following the cattle. Every day seems to be a good day for them, but moving days are the days they get the most excited. Fresh cow-pies to scratch through! While we set up the netting they talk to us from inside the house and get more excited the closer we get to being done. By the time we are ready to open the door it is a laying hen avalanche. They all come running/flying/flapping/jumping out the the door, if you don’t get out of the way you get run right over! They go right to work demolishing all the cow patties, running after bugs, making happy chirps and clucks, and of course the two roosters have crowing contests. It is quite the party! In the evening things are much quieter, many of the hens will be taking dust baths, or sitting in the shade pecking at the stray bug or blade of grass. And there are the eggs to gather. Not as many as we could use though… seems like we can never have enough eggs! Hopefully we will have some for everyone once the youngest of the girls start laying. We are also anticipating some ready-to-lay pullets arriving in August, which will boost the numbers.

back pasture, broilers in the distance

The broilers are doing well. They are in the back pasture this spring. The job they do of fertilizing is amazing. The front where they were last year, and the part of the back they were on, are so lush and dark green. The grass blades have gotten wider too. The horses and cattle love it! The chickens seem to really enjoy their “job” too. They are always eager to move in the morning to get the fresh grass and bugs. And of course they enjoy their feed too. Cody has finally managed to find a source for organic grain for the laying hens, broilers, and ducks (we have been looking since we started several years ago!) which we are very excited about (and they seem to enjoy it as well!).

We are processing twice a week this year with the increased numbers. We have a great crew of five. Cody, myself, Gabe, Zack, and his wife Malinda (who has experience working for a custom butcher, a big asset!). It is a great group to work with and makes what could be an un-pleasant job enjoyable. It is a sad day. It is not “fun” to kill chickens, but they had good lives, we are appreciating what they are giving us and having a good group of people to work with, people who have respect for animals and care about their quality of life and well-being while they are alive, makes it a not-so-bad job to have. We enjoy each others company, the time passes quickly despite the hard work, and we are filling the freezers; ours and those of many people who appreciate good, responsibly raised, healthy food!

Well, it is time to feed again! We hope to see some of you this Saturday (between nine and noon here at the farm). Gabe will be at the Argenta market in North Little Rock this weekend (someone is there most weekends during the market season). We have someone (usually Cody) at the Hot Springs Village, and Hot Springs markets once a month. And we still do our online market in Conway (conway.locallygrown.net), now weekly. Our chicken is also available through the Arkansas Sustainabilities online market (littlerock.locallygrown.net). Be sure to check out the restaurants that use our chicken as well (listed on the prices page).

Wishing you all health and happiness and a cool spot in the shade this summer! Thank you for your continued support, and for those of you who are just finding us (or hearing about us through our magazine debut in Rural Arkansas) we look forward to meeting you!

Andrea

Here it is two months gone by already! A new year, and already the weather has made itself the headline. We were right in the middle of the worst of The Ice Storm. We were less affected than many as we have wood heat and the cooking stove is run on propane. We have a spring that we get our water from, but it is moved to the house with an electric pump. Can’t have everything. Certainly makes solar and wind power look appealing…

We ended up buying a generator to keep the freezers running at the farm, thanks to the cold temperatures outside all of them stayed well below the critical point before we got the generator hooked up. The day or so after that the power came back on at the farm (it is close to a main line), however, the generator was brought to the house and very warmly welcomed, 5 days without any power was plenty! It was 12 days total before we got power again at the house, not too long compared to some of the people we know.

The ice was absolutely beautiful, but the destruction as it continued to come down and overload trees and power lines was incredible. It looked like the aftermath of a tornado, only with not one path but many. While some areas had minimal damage, others were completely devestated. We lost a lot of trees, but all the buildings and animals were spared, and most of the vehicles. My dad’s work truck had a large limb come down on it doing quite a bit of damage. Still drive-able though! We will be cleaning up limbs and trees for the rest of the year, and the pastures will have more light than before. No shortage of firewood.

With the gorgeous spring weather of the past week we began construction on a new brooder to accommodate a larger number of chicks for this year! 5100 are ordered and will begin arriving in batches of 600 the first week of April. We have been cleaning up fencerows, and purchasing fence supplies, to improve our facilities for handling an increase in cattle; 10-15 will arrive mid-April to join the two we overwintered. The two we have currently will train the new stockers to the electric fence, finish fattening on the spring flush of grass, and be ready to process end of May/beginning of June. Some of the beef is already spoken for, so if you are interested let me know so I can add you to the list! We’ve had positive reports on the two we sold in the fall, and expect these to be delicious as well. They are 100% grass-fed and finished. We had a little marbling in the fall beef, and hope to increase that with the two in the spring. It is a learning process! More cattle this year has meant finding some more land to lease, about 20 acres of our next-door neighbor’s beautiful pasture. 

One exciting bit of news; we are looking forward to having our first intern this summer. Gabe, a student from Hendrix College will be joining us from May through August. We are greatly looking forward to his enthusiastic and eager-to-learn energy! He will tentatively be doing a project of adding ducks to the Falling Sky Farm pastured animals mosaic as well as learning all aspects of the operation, from routine chores to processing and marketing.

We are also looking forward to working with some nearby friends, Elizabeth Alexandar and Ben Goodwin, on marketing. They are raising heirloom veggies and beautiful flowers near the Buffalo River (BuffaloMoonFarm.com). We plan to do some joint marketing in Conway, Little Rock and Hot Springs. We are working with Ben, Elizabeth, and several groups in Conway to get a weekly Saturday farmers’ market going, ideally downtown. Details are yet to come, but stay tuned! 

We plan to continue marketing at the Argenta Farmer’s market (hopefully at least three weeks a month!) and the Hot Springs Market (probably once a month) when they start this spring. We will also continue to attend the Hot Springs Village Carmona Center market (our products will also be available in the store opening in March!) once or twice a month. You can also continue to find our products at Littlerock.locallygrown.net and Conway.locallygrown.net.

However, I am getting ahead of myself. As today has proven, it is still winter and the full-swing marketing season is a ways off yet. After our week of lovely warm weather we woke up to snow flurries which have continued to fall all day. It is gorgeous, and a lovely excuse to stay by the fire!

In general things have been pretty laid-back. We have still been doing regular deliveries, but that is only twice a month for now. The freezers are quickly emptying, ready to be filled mid-May with our first processing. The laying hens continue to lay their beautiful eggs. We may be getting some more laying chicks this spring. The demand for eggs hasn’t dwindled like their decrease in laying with the colder weather! However, we are still getting 60-80 eggs a day, not too shabby!

We are getting some much needed work done on our house. We have learned a lot over the past month, probably more than we ever wanted to know (!), about mixing, laying, and finishing adobe floors. We are putting one down in our kitchen, which, needless to say, has not been itself for the past month! It will be really nice when it’s done though. Getting close…

We took time for a drive down to Florida to visit my grandparents and uncle in West Palm Beach. Cody, Dale (my dad) and I had a lovely trip, a very nice little break! Luckily we went and were back by the time the ice storm arrived as Susan (my mom) was generously watching the laying hens, cows, horses, dogs and cat for us! She was most appreciative not to have to deal with the frozen ground, water, escaped cows, down fences, and all the other excitement that goes with having animals in bad weather! Yes, the cows went adventuring and visiting for a few days as trees/branches fell on the two gates separating them from the neighbor’s herd (they walked right over the electric wire which was so laden with ice it was on the ground!). I finally got to utilize the horses for farm-work. Cody and I spent three days in the saddle locating and attempting to separate our cows from our neighbor’s VERY wild herd in a pasture with very bad perimeter fences, losing them, finding them again, and FINALLY getting them home safely. The horses were wonderful. Pepper got ample chances to let his cutting pedigree shine, and Taff and Dude did a wonderful job of safely navigating the thorn tree and briar patches that predominate in our neighbor’s field. It was a relief to all (including our cows!) when everyone was safely back where they are supposed to be!

The first daffodils are blooming, and now being covered in snow. Spring isn’t here quite yet! Wishing you all the best, and I will try to be a little better about making my updates more frequent. We look forward to seeing many of you this spring and summer. As always, thank you for your continued support, and we always welcome your feedback! We are still getting comments on the Thanksgiving turkeys, which appear to have been quite a hit! We plan on doing more this year, and hopefully getting them a little later so as to have birds that are actually 20 pounds max.! However, life is always full of surprises, so we shall see.

To a happy, healthy, and peaceful 2009!

Andrea

p.s. I finally ordered a book on wordpress, and will hopefully figure out how to get a photo-gallery up very soon, with photos large enough to see. If anyone is a wordpress expert I would love some lessons!

We made it! Our second year farming and what a year it has been. We’ve learned a lot, had many challenges, worked with, and gotten to know many wonderful people, made some really good connections, had some really good experiences, some really trying experiences, and here we are. We’re already excited about and planning for next year, although a chance to catch our breath is much appreciated. Thank goodness for winter!

The weather this year has been wild: floods, unseasonably cold weather in the late spring, a wet summer, tornados, and a hurricane. With the hurricane came strong winds, more rain, and electrical outages (with a freezer full of product and a brooder full of chicks we were only panicking slightly! very much relieved when the power company pulled through and got us going again quickly!). This is certainly a lifestyle where you are very dependent on, and therefore observant of, the weather. It is so pleasant to be out feeding on a summer evening and enjoying the beautiful sunsets. There are also the days of rain and wind when it’s less pleasant, but it is overall wonderful to be so in touch with nature. A major perk to all the rain we received was that the pastures were very lush and beautiful this summer. The cows, chickens, and turkeys took full advantage of the gorgeous grass!

We raised and processed 3500 broilers this year, about 150 turkeys, and two of the cattle we got in May went to the butcher last month. In addition, we gathered, washed packaged and delivered dozens of eggs from our flock of 120 or so laying hens. Cody’s increased focus on marketing really paid off this year and we’ve been making regular deliveries to Conway Locally Grown, Arkansas Sustainability Network in Little Rock, to restaurants in Little Rock and Hot Springs, buying clubs, and locally. During the season we were also attending the Argenta and Hot Springs farmer’s markets, and are still going down to the Carmona Center market in Hot Springs Village once a month through the winter. A big thank you to all of our eager, wonderful customers! We really appreciate your support. We would not be doing this if it were not for you!

Things have slowed significantly since the broiler and turkey season is over. We now have one steer and one heifer (they will be ready for processing in the spring), and the laying flock through the winter. Also my horses, a few of which have been sold, but most are members of the family. With our daily chores greatly reduced, we are: focusing on resting and recuperating from the very busy, exciting year, planning for next year, working on a few projects (some fencing, our house, a storage shed at the farm, finding a larger and better equipped delivery truck, etc), and generally enjoying the slower pace. We are still doing some marketing, Conway Locally Grown once a month, and a trip to Little Rock and Hot Springs each month for deliveries. We have enough chickens in the freezer to last us (we hope!) through the winter and early spring, and the hens keep on laying!

One last note, the grazing seminar we held earlier this fall with featured speaker Greg Judy was very informative and we had a great turnout. We are so glad that those of you who did were able to attend, and hope that you got as much out of it and were as excited about it as we were! We are planning to do an open-house (open-farm rather!) this spring. This will give those who are interested a chance to come tour the farm and learn more about how the animals are raised, things we are doing to improve the pastures and the land, and some of our plans for the future! I will let you know when we have a date set.

We wish you all a wonderful holiday season, and all the best this coming year. We look forward to seeing many of you as farmers markets start up again in the spring, and some of you through the winter too. Thanks again for your support and encouragement, and please do give us feedback on what you like, don’t like, or things we could do better. We always welcome hearing from you!

Happy Holidays, and here’s to an exciting New Year!

Andrea and Cody

 Morning in the back pasture, the chicken tractors slowly moving down the field. Read the rest of this entry »

Here it is fall already and lots is happening around the farm! The first batch of 500 chicks arrived mid-August, with 500 more arriving every two weeks for three total batches. Plus, we were given 100 “extra” chicks ordered for the fair, a bonus! They have grown quickly and our first processing of the season took place last Monday. The countdown is on with the finale being the turkey processing day just before Thanksgiving, remember to get your turkey reserved early, as the orders are coming in quicker as the time nears. 

We have some exciting events coming up soon so get out your calendars! Greg Judy, author of No Risk Ranching and Comeback Farms, is coming to do a holistic high density, planned grazing seminar on November 1st which will be followed by a farm walk here at Falling Sky Farm to look at our pastured poultry operation and our grazing program with Greg to answer questions.  We are very excited the seminar and encourage anyone interested to sign up. You can contact us by email or phone to reserve a spot. I will post a copy of the flyer here on the site.

Another event that is coming up soon is our first Conway Locally Grown dinner! The chef at Pia’s in Conway has been working with us, and other farmers who supply Conway Locally Grown, to work up a menu using locally grown, sustainably produced ingredients for a dinner with CLG members, customers and producers, as well as for those interested in the CLG program. The dinner is a chance to enjoy some awesome food, chat with the farmers, and learn more about the CLG program. For more information see the Conway Locally Grown website (www.conway.locallygrown.net).

Other things happening on the farm include new additions to our processing set-up that were procured Saturday at a restaurant supply store auction. Hooray for more stainless steel!

The mobile laying hen house is finally finished (still a few little things like the gutters and rain-barrel for watering and making a platform for the feed barrel on the house. But the hens are happily at home and have all learned to go up the ramp to bed instead of roosting under the house at night. It took a few days of crawling underneath, in the lovely “fertilizer,” and hiding out with a stick/water hose and chasing them out before they got the idea that under the house was NOT a good place to roost. Glad we got that all sorted out! Another minor challenge has been that we didn’t put enough of the weight far enough forward of the center, and so when everyone crowds to the back (where the roosts are located), the nest-boxes and feeders up front aren’t enough to keep the house from tilting back on end. It’s kind of like a carnival ride for the chickens… they don’t mind too much, and we pull it back down and put more rocks/cement blocks up front. Need to get that water system done, that’ll hold it down! Always something.

The cows are doing good, they have calmed down a lot and are easy to move from paddock to paddock. We have four to seven horses at a time following where the cows have been to clean up the leftovers, and that is working out well. The pasture is looking nice between the chickens and turkeys, and the cows and horses. It is so neat to see it all working together so well!

We continue to work on expanding the water and fencing systems. We are now utilizing the back pasture for broilers and the cows/horses, and laying hens, which means more waterline and fence. Anyone out there want to gain some hands on experience with farming?!? So many projects…

Cody has been doing a lot of work on the marketing aspect of the farm. Conway Locally Grown is growing and doing well. Yesterday was the last farmers market at Argenta for the year, Cody got up at 3:30 (yes, in the morning) and drove down. Now that’s commitment. A few more weekends at the Hot Springs Market and the farmers market season will be over for the year. It will be really nice to have our weekends back, but sad to loose the marketing venues, and it’s been fun getting to know the other farmers and the customers, many of whom we’ve gotten used to seeing on a regular basis! Some we still will, as we’ll be doing deliveries for the Frequent Fryer/Buyer Club through the winter to Little Rock and Hot Springs.

A big thank you to those who have given us feedback, we really appreciate hearing from you! I will try to be a little better about getting updates posted. Now that we have a new computer (and a laptop at that) our access will be a little more consistent. 

Happy fall,

Andrea

Time has flown and it’s mid-summer already, although you wouldn’t know it by the weather: 60’s and 1.5 inches of rain yesterday and last night. In July!

Things are still busy on the farm, although the pace has slowed significantly since our last chicken processing day two weeks ago. The freezer is full and there are no more broilers until mid-August when our first batch of chicks for the fall will arrive. 

The steers and heifers have settled into their routine of moving every morning to fresh grass. They are all lined up at the fence eager to be moved when I go out. The pastures are looking wonderful with all the rain we’ve been having, especially after the “fertilizing” they received this spring from the chickens!

The 150 laying hens are keeping us in shape for when the fall batch of broilers arrives. Moving pens and netting, feeding, watering, and collecting eggs. We will hopefully have a much bigger job with the eggs soon, as our 125 young hens are growing quickly and should be laying within the month! One of our recent projects has been designing and building a mobile hen house with nest-boxes and perches for the ladies so they can keep up with the cows better (right now we can’t move the pens fast or far enough). They will enjoy having more manure to scratch around in. Hopefully the “egg-mobile” will be finished this week and they can move into their new accommodations. 

The turkeys are also keeping us busy. 150 Standard Bronze and 50 Bourbon Reds arrived about four weeks ago. They have been in the brooder but will be moving out onto pasture today as they are getting too big and energetic for the brooder. It will be fun to see them get out on the grass and have more room to roam and eat greens!

Cody’s latest projects have included repairing and reinforcing chicken tractors that were damaged in some of the recent storms we’ve had, and really focusing on marketing, particularly on the Conway Locally Grown market which appears to be working out really well, for farmers and customers. It is still young and we’re still working out the kinks, but attendance has grown and we’ve been getting good feedback! It has been really exciting to have so much enthusiasm and response; it helps us keep at it through the more challenging times. The program even made the Conway paper two weeks ago!

In addition to Conway Locally Grown, our restaurant deliveries, and buying clubs,  we have also begun attending farmer’s markets. Argenta in North Little Rock and the Hot Springs Farmer’s Market. We are planning on being at Argenta every other week through the summer, and doing the Hot Springs market once a month. The long drives and early mornings are challenging, but getting a chance to interact with our customers and with other farmers is a lot of fun. There is so much good food out there and amazing and dedicated people who grow it, and buy it!

We have also started a Frequent Buyer Club for those customers who want chicken, turkey and duck year-round, and at a discounted price. By joining customers ensure that they receive chicken, turkey and duck all year and help us plan for the fall so we’ll have a better idea of how many chickens to raise to get us through to the spring season. If you are interested we will have information at the farmers markets or you can contact us by phone or email and I will have more details posted soon. 

I have been busy with the horses, training and lessons, as well as finishing the perimeter electric fence around the front pasture and learning how to operate the scary, noisy, fumey, ancient Ford tractor that my dad has loaned us to do our feed grinding and mixing. The brakes don’t work very well, and it’s kind of difficult to start, oh and the throttle control is broken so you have to use a pair of vice grips to work it instead, but it’s  pretty fuel efficient and it runs (mostly)! Never a dull moment. 

Apologies for the lack of pictures this post, our internet connection is being dif-

ficult, but I’ll try to get some up soon.

We hope you are all having a good summer. Happy, healthy eating!    ~ Andrea

Welcome to Falling Sky Farm’s webpage! It is still under construction so appologies for the messyness, and I am still figuring out how it works. But, at least I can put up some updates about progress and activities on the farm. Pictures will be coming soon. Here’s the first entry written the end of April. With all the rain over the past few weeks things have rapidly gone from brown and grey to green! The pastures are looking beautiful and there are chicks in the brooder and several batches out on pasture. The rain has brought it’s challenges too, keeping approximately 1500 chickens dry and warm in such weather has kept us on our toes, and the sun over the past few days has been very welcome.In addition to the chickens, which are growing well and seem to be enjoying their time on pasture, and the laying hens who are laying regularly again, we have had several major projects going on this winter and spring.The first began in January with the purchase of a used three ton mixer-grinder and two grain silos. We are now able to grind and mix our own feed as we need it, which is wonderful. It is fresher and we can get the grind that we want. However, true to form, there were challenges. On the first mixing it broke down. So, we learned how to disassemble, repair, and reassemble a mixer-grinder with the assistance and guidance of Dale, my handy father. The good part was that the second time it broke down, a few days later, we knew what we were doing. Still, we had to take it all apart, get the correct parts ordered, and put it back together, but it was easier. So far (please keep your fingers crossed) it is working better than ever!Another project has been building forms and pouring concrete for the grain silos and the walk-in freezer we purchased. The freezer arrived about a week ago and awaits the visit by the refrigeration man to hook it all up. It will allow us to hold much more volume, and hopefully more efficiently.More tasks have included constructing a pole barn to house the mixer-grinder and the extra shavings we use in the brooder. We relocated brooder to the old milk barn on our leased property and expanded it to house 600 chicks at a time. Cody learned about running and hooking up the electrical lines and outlets, and he and I both worked on patching the floor, building a wall, and sealing the entire room from drafts and unwanted critters.  A new addition this year for the chickens is we are experimenting with day ranging. Using electrified poultry netting around the tractors we are able to let the chickens out during the day to have more space to move about and then shut them in at night. The netting also provides an additional deterrent to predators as well as being nicer for the chickens and looking better to us! So far it is going very well. It is really neat to watch when you let them out in the morning as they go running around flapping their wings and chasing the lucky ones who get the worms and bugs. So far we have not had any predator problems this year.In the near future we are hoping to welcome pigs and several heifers and steers to the farm. We’ll keep you updated, and do let us know if you are interested, early orders are appreciated! The hogs will be ready to process in the fall and the steers and heifers will not be ready until next spring/summer. We are also looking into raising turkeys for the holiday season, more information on that at a later date.We have expanded our marketing venues this year. In addition to the buying club in Hot Springs/Hot Springs Village, Arkansas Sustainability Network in Little Rock, and purchasing right here on-farm you can now order our chickens, eggs (and soon pork, beef and turkey) at Conway Locally Grown. Conway Locally Grown is an online farmers market that Cody is heading up that will serve the Conway area. Please visit www.conway.locallygrown.net for more information on this exciting new market.We hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful spring and we look forward to serving you. Our first chickens will be available after the 7^th of May. Eggs are available as we have them. We have 100 more laying hen chicks who are growing fast and will hopefully begin producing in July, greatly increasing the number of eggs we have for sale.Till next time.Andrea