Blog-O-Rama!

Posted on by December 12, 2009

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That’s gonna be me today…. sitting in the sunshine and just kinda vegging for the day! I finally have a day off from the salt mines that is our holiday rush. We’re not done with orders by any stretch of the imagination, but we’re out of stock and have several boxes/orders coming on Monday so there’s not much I can do till then! Yeah!!!!

So I thought, what a great opportunity to catch up on some household putzing.. you know, just wandering about and doing a little of this and that while you surf ebay and watch tv and take a nap or three. Yeah. Make a late brunch for yourself, and just stay in your jammies till at least 2 pm. That’s gonna be me today!

We had an Opry last night on top of everything else, so I was super duper crazy busy. I was sitting in traffic at 5:30 PM and the doors open at 6 and I had the tickets and programs and raffle tickets and all the show stuff in my car, so you can imagine how important I was! hahaha! But thankfully our crew of volunteers was on board and Jeff had them waiting on call and the minute I got there we all swung into action… stapling and folding and unpacking and getting the ticket table ready and all that. Heck, even Lori and Brad from New Outlook, the opening band, lent a helping hand with stapling and folding programs! It was wonderful and helped me to calm down from my close call with disaster.

Well, I decided that today, one of the things I’m going to do is try and catch up on some posting! All the time I was slaving away at Jessy’s company work, I was thinking of cool posts! I even managed to get a few photos of things, and all that. So I will try over the weekend to post a bunch of stuff for everyone! You can try and read slowly, like one or two a day if you can, or just read a bunch I suppose! I’ll probably be CRAZY busy next week as we try and get everything out the door before Christmas… so postings might be a little slim next week too. Just warning you all!

Well, breakfast is about ready, so I’ll see ya in a bit!

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Working at the Family Mine…

Posted on by December 7, 2009

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Don’t worry, we’re not dead.

And nope, no cave-in at the Dragon Mountain Mines.

Just a ton of holiday orders, and a bunch of tuckered out order packers and kit makers and all that jazz.

We had to call Tim in as second shift and teach him all about the kit making business. He’s a fast learner and is already identifying some of the varieties of rocks and minerals without any help from us! It’s cool.

I am enjoying the process, and am weary of it at the very same time! HAHA… It’s a lot of work and it starts to get stressful when everyone starts to panic about getting their orders before Christmas. Even though it’s like still a good 2 weeks away. I can understand, it’s just something that I wish we could get better at, but it takes a lot of time to keep everyone up to date all the time. And that, in turn makes us a little slower having to stop and answer phones and emails about orders that were placed a day or two before. Crazy stuff!

Thankfully, I’ve learned from the past years, and I have all my Christmas shopping done, and have cleared my plate of most of other projects, so that I can focus on keeping the whole machinery moving forward. We’ve got another good week or 10 days of crazy ordering and then it will calm down and get back to normal!

I should be getting a new-to-me computer from the work, and that will really help in so many ways with all that we do. My current computer is now 6 years old and in the computer world, unfortunately, that’s about 1970 to you and me! But don’t worry… I am looking at refurbished and used machines… just not quite so old. Jessy’s old laptop died a few months ago, so she is going to get my current machine when I get the new one. Trying to keep up a bit, but still try to keep the machines out of the landfills!

I hope everyone is doing good! I have a bunch of posts floating around in my head while I sort out rocks, minerals and fossils for all the good little children of the world!

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My Fiddle Teacher…

Posted on by December 5, 2009

When you want to learn how to play an instrument… it’s the coolest thing to pick the very best kid around to teach ya! They are really open and fun to learn from. I haven’t taken like tons of lessons… actually I will take one or so and then work on the material for a couple weeks and go back. I should take more, and then I could get better faster, but already, I’m feeling good about my progress! And Clint’s enthusiam is a big part of it… learning an instrument alone or from a book or tape is hard work. And easily discourages you. Do yourself a favor… find a teacher! It’s loads of fun!!!

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