It's cookie time>

I walked into church for a meeting this afternoon and was greeted by the amazing aroma of baking cookies.  Best incense ever.  I immeidately realized that it's almost time for the Johnny Appleseed  Festival.  Our church has the "Cookie Jar" booth at the festival every year.  It is a big production.  This year they will bake almost 20,000 cookies, and will probably still sell out.  The money goes to help support our day school.  They make five kinds of cookies; snickerdoodles, molasses, sugar, chocolate chip, and, I think peanut butter,  I'm not sure about that last one.  All are from scratch recipes although they do have a big machine donated by a bakery some years ago that spits the dough out in nice regular sizes.  This is much easier that years ago when we used ice cream scoops to scoop out the cookie dough, trying for standardized sizes. But for me the most brilliant idea is the presale.  Those of us church members (and friends?) who can't make it to Johhny Appleseed can preorder cookies by the dozen and pick them up at church on Friday.  What a fine idea.  Amazing cookies and I can avoid the bees.