30 September 2009

Many changes are afoot. If you're reading this, you've no doubt noticed that we've been doing a little work in the digital realm (thanks again to Timmie who is magically able to take things that are simple for most of us - but for some reason very difficult for me - and make them so simple that even I understand them...).

The picture that is the new header on the blog is one of our pentacle stones, photographed in the Pembina River at noon a couple of weeks ago. It looks very large because I was quite close to it. In reality these stones are the size of the palm of your hand. I'm not sure why I didn't drown attempting to take that picture seeing as I had to submerge the camera (and myself) to make the shot.

At any rate, I feel like I should have webbed toes from all the sloshing around I've done in rivers and other bodies of water lately.

People may have noticed that Fred and I haven't been around the Store the last few weeks. We've been travelling. A lot. On Monday we got back from the Kootenays with a fresh shipment of brooms. This year we ordered them sight unseen and the good people who make the brooms picked out some amazing specimens (far better than, I think, if I had taken two hours to pick them out). These guys really know their stuff.

Also yesterday we had a visit from our crystal and jewellery people. In stock soon...every size of just about every sterling pentacle ring we've ever carried. And crystals I've never heard of before but apparently *do* exist (according to Melody) including something called "hypersteine" which looks like a low grade ruby or sapphire (or perhaps "black star" diopside) but isn't.

Good for business relations and other stuff, it looks like we're going to keep one in a special place in the till. Or, perhaps, seeing as the ones we got are the size of sparrow eggs and very heavy and hard, we may just keep a bowl full of them and chuck them at people who come into the Store to annoy us (also a valid way, I think, of maintaining one's business relationships!)

Let's see...other news...

Somehow the store computer password protected itself. Much fun and mayhem ensued until we figured out how to unlock it (interesting too seeing as to my knowledge we have never ever actually set a password for it). I can attest that it is impossible to guess a password that does not exist (can you say "divide by zero"?)

Anyhoo...it's all figured out and we all learned a little something about ourselves and the computer in the process.

And, lastly, even as I write this, Rasa is no doubt sitting on a jumbo jet on the tarmac somewhere waiting to embark on the next leg of her 24 hour journey to the fabled lands of Uruguay.

We all wish her the best in her new life and we're going to miss her dearly.