Dave is Slacking and More Sad Excuses
Yeah, Yeah, Dave has been slacking. Most of you have probably noticed that the website tattle-tales on me when I have not been regularly updating my blog. I guess this is a small price to pay for turning the website design and upkeep to a friend. Needless to say, we have been a might bit busy lately. Here is a quick update on the new shop:
The refurbishing of the building is taking shape nicely despite kayak camps, lessons, trips and all the other craziness we have going on this time of the year. Nearly sixty hours of pressure washing was needed to remove the peeling stucco from the front of the building. Two nights of sign painting until 4:30 in the a.m. got the outside looking a bit better, too. (We had to project the lettering on the building at night with our digital projector.)
A lot of our nice friends have been kind enough to donate time, equipment and materials to the shop. A special thanks to West Marine for donating many store fixtures. Dave and Barb Brinker spent part of their vacation trip hauling boats across the country for us (We appreciate this!). Delilah Smith helped dumpster dive (watch for the blog about this coming soon!) And, thank you to Tom and Doris Stone for lots more fixtures, desks, a computer server, and a printer which Tom even came out and installed. I guess I will have to start being nicer to them. On that note, we are trying to do as much with recycled materials as possible. (Hint…. if you have building materials, store fixtures, an old microwave, etc., let’s talk.)
For the most part we have the store staffed from 10-6 Tuesday through Saturday and after hours by appointment. Expect to meet our new coworkers on the website real soon. In the meantime, again thank you to all those that continue to bless my life with your continued friendship and support. Regards, Dave Lindo