17 March 2008

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Golly...I had no idea a whole month had passed since I last posted to this blog!

Things got very busy for me and the store...

Rasa was away in Uruguay for all of January and February.
Charlene and the store parted company in February (it was a friendly parting of ways for a variety of reasons I won't bore you with here)...

The end result was that things got rather interesting and complicated for me.

But...Rasa's back (yaaaay) and rested from her time in the Uruguayan sunshine and is eagerly back to work. I vow never, ever again to take for granted the ability to take two whole days off...in a row!

So what's new?

Well, we had a most excellent Fireside Chat last Friday. Lee graciously offered to facilitate and the topic was "Things that go bump in the night". Sorry, again, Lee that I didn't get this posted *before* the Chat happened. That being said, people appeared to really enjoy Lee's talk (I believe the word "spellbound" was used at one point to describe the audience). So again, thank you very much to Lee for taking the time and effort to bring such a good topic to the table.

My extreme gratitude to Ta...I mean Ambyr, who stepped up and was able to share her knowledge of dreamcatchers February 22 and pull the Fireside from, I guess, the fire when the scheduled facilitator was unable to come due to a family emergency.

Anyway....

We have lots of new and exciting things going on.

The March 28 Fireside looks like it will be a quiet one due to the fact that a number of other things are happening that day out in the world. We are still looking for a facilitator for that one, as well as for the April 11th Fireside. Call me if you want to volunteer.

April 25th's Fireside will be hosted by Rick Carr, a well-learned man who will be discussing, among other things, wands, staves, and pennanular brooches. Should be interesting.

An announcement Ed and I made at the last Fireside drew a lot of boos and unhappy noises, however, we do think this is for the best. Fireside Chats will be put on hiatus for the summer season (June, July and August). The reasoning for this is that summer is a really busy time for people - there are many events happening in the community.

Also, have you *been* in our back room during the hot season? It's freaking unbearable.

And finally, we are not exactly awash in people who are willing to volunteer to facilitate (hint hint)...

In other news...

We are going to have our First Annual Pre-Inventory Blow Out sale on the weekend of April 26-27. Just about everthing in the store will be on sale. Some items are going to be *deeply* discounted. I will be posting periodically a few of the stranger things that are to be included in sale.

I'm also toying with the idea of having a kind of garage sale in the back room that weekend as well (NO I **DON'T** WANT ANY OF YOUR STUFF TO SELL TOO. I'M SERIOUS!). I've still got boxes of other people's stuff in my garage from past sales.

Anyway, that's all the news that's fit to print...