Successful trial

We started up our new facility with only a few issues on Friday! Of course, this is a good start but we're not yet out of the woods. Here is what we've accomplished:
1. Made 50 lbs of caramel (with lavender) - it was yummy!
2. Cleaned up some equipment that we did not use that day,
3. Additional nesting activites included shelving ingredients and bickering about miscellaneous things
Steve the wrapping machine will be installed next week.
Here are some learnings
1. Copper kettle burns easily
2. It's easy to overheat the caramel in the final stages, therefore making the texture too hard (in which case it's difficult to say that our caramels are "deliciously soft")
3. We have a lot of space in Das Foods facility that will hopefully be filled by all kinds of exciting candy making gadgets soon!
On the emotial level however, the place still feels empty and unlived in. It has the same kind of feel as a new home, when there is no furniture, no clutter, no pictures on the walls and no bed to sleep in. The only thing that's missing is a bare lightbulb that is hanging from the ceiling on the bare wire.
A weird absence of excitement is somewhat buffling: we worked so hard to get here and yet it's somewhat anti-climactic, perhaps because there is not a lot of activity yet.