Power Outage

Yesterday, we had our biggest sale yet; two cases to one person, yeah!!!! We also had a 2-hour power outage. I had to do things the old fashion way with calculator, paper and credit card slips. So much for my $3000 POS system. It was a good day though all-in-all. More pictures of the gift shop soon.

Getting Closer

I can’t believe it’s been a week since I’ve updated the blog.  Last week we had very little (none) contractor activity so we did the things we could do.  I finished sanding the bar and stained the new piece.  I also bought tile for the rest of the flooring including the back room.  RJ has been working on repairs to the sink cupboards since the counter will be in next Tuesday (28th).  Joyce worked on painting the new pieces in the kitchen and sanding the backroom.  Henry cultivated the vineyard getting it ready for seeding between the rows.  Keep in mind I have also had to organize our church’s Octoberfest dinner coming up this Saturday, including a silent auction.  On Sunday, I got a surprise.  Some friend’s from California and their relatives in Corvallis were coming in a half hour.  I had them scheduled for next week.  So we did the tour thing and dinner on Sunday, and then I put the two friends from California to work on Monday.  Our biggest project was pulling up the carpet in the back room.  We found there was very old linoleum underneath.  That was very hard to get up.  Took us better part of the day.  Back room is ready to paint and almost ready to tile.  I have also been working with a bunch of publications on ads and press releases.  Joyce is helping me put together a mailing list.  Lastly, I negotiated with our POS vendor to get some funding.  It would be here in 2 weeks or so.  Today, we are scheduled for final inspections on electrical and plumbing.  Cross your fingers.  Pictures include kitchen cabinet work, pulling up carpet and flooring, bar and whateven else I feel like including. 🙂