Day shift, hair cuts, the creek, hunkering down, and business

Wow. It’s been awhile. V and I swapped shifts. She now is working the swing and I’m doing days. Swing is the “non-business” hours shift, meaning I did not need to fill my day with phone calls and ordering. Now that I’m on days, I spend more time marketing and dealing with customers, since “business hours” are when everyone else is open. On swing, I had more time to spend on the blog and the web site. Seems it has affected our Google rank. We were at 30 and now we are at 36 for a “mineral makeup” search.

M and S asked V to cut their hair the other day. M got tired of dealing with the knots. M had hair to her waist, S had hair to her mid back. Now M has a “Hermione Granger” hair cut, and Scarlet has a shoulder length bob. Both cuts are very sassy. Neither of them have had their hair cut since birth. Well, that’s not true. M cut S’s hair when she was about two. Butchered it. I has decided to keep her hair as is for the time being, can’t remember if she has been the recipient of any hair cutting experiments or not.

Our seasonal creek is flowing again. The ponds are full and refreshing as the new water displaces the old, down the creek. The lower pond is spring fed, which is really nice. It stayed full the entire summer. The upper pond, tho, is not spring fed, so it lost about half of it’s volume since the creek quit flowing in early July. Here’s a pic.

Seasonal creek.

With the early onset of cooler weather, we have fired up the wood burning stove. We started burning in early October, perhaps even late September, I can’t remember. I pulled the room heaters out of storage and set them up. They are controlled by timers, so they come on in the morning and go off in the evening by themselves. We are back to long sleeves and long pants. This summer was too short, and too cool.

We exhibited at the NorthWest Natural trade show in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. Trade shows give us a chance to meet some of our retailers. Most retailers contact us via phone or email, and business is transacted in a rather blind sort of way. I really enjoy visiting with customers. Perhaps I am commenting on my social life, lack of one really, but I like putting faces to names and a trade show is a great place to do that. Over all, the show was good. We came back with a list of new contacts, sold a couple of displays and had some great face time with our sales reps.

Later, Brad.

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