Moving the Store!!!!!

Pray for us.....

The owner of our building made us an offer for us to move into a different building. The new building would have 2000 more square feet. We will go from 3600 square feet to 5600 square feet. It would give me more space for the retail and it would give Derrick more space for his print shop. It solved a lot of space issues that we were going to have with bringing in the new product line.

It also created a couple of small issues for us because the ceiling height is only 8' in the new building and currently we have 16 foot ceiling heights in some places.

We have accepted the offer but, it will be very stressful and costly for us to move (even though it is only across the parking lot). The owner is going to help us out where he can with equipment to move Derricks presses and people to help us move, etc.

It is very exciting - we will have more visibility than we do now. Now our building is set back a little and diagonal instead of parallel with 32. The new building is seen long before people see us now. We will have (2) 15' long lighted signs on the back of the building (32 side). We will have (1) 15' lighted sign on the front of the building to share between us. We will be able to put signs or items out by the fence on the 32 side, etc. People are always telling me that they have such a hard time finding me back in the corner here. That problem will be solved.

Pray for us during this process we will be moving either the end of June or beginning of July.

Open House

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Well, we will have been open 1 full year at the store on May 22 this year. WOOOOH! Sometimes I thought we would never make it to the first year but, it is here.

We are having an open house on the 19th. We have continually been adding new lines of product etc. But, now we are adding a totally different line of product.

AMISH Foods & Crafts........I am also trying to add some homemade fresh items. From local gourmet cooks that I know. I am trying to work all those details out. i.e. making sure that myself or the cook are doing anything that we could get in trouble for by selling the home baked goods in my store. If I can come up with a commercial refrigerator I am going to bring in Amish Cheese from a place in Northern Ohio.

I will have some items in the store by the Open House on the 19th. And will add according to demand.

I am very excited about all of the possibilities!!!!!! Just talking to some of my customers about it has seem to spark some interest and that is always a good thing.

Another really exciting thing that happened was ~~ On Wednesday(I think) there were two fellows that walked in my store. The first guy was telling me that he had heard that my store was well worth checking out. He was also informing me the person that was getting ready to come in was someone that did product write ups in Backpacker Magazine and wrote many books and is always doing product testing etc. I thought that was a good thing that someone of that outdoorsman stature had heard good things about my store.