Pug Picture

We got a new camera over the weekend, and since we have a fairly new cute puppy too, you can see what our day was spent doing.

We are almost in the new space. We thought we were going to move everything over this evening and be open tomorrow, which we might still do, but as I sat down at the kitchen table this morning, James said, “There was a flood in the new space.” I am sure you can imagine my first thing in the morning mind, wheels turning, thinking “it didn’t rain last night, plus we are on a hill, how is it possible we got flooded?” Apparently the toilet backed up, and flooded water into the rest of the space. Luckily our contractor was there first thing to sand the wallboard in the kitchen and found it, cleaned it up, and turned the water off. And we didn’t leave there until after 11pm last night, so it wasn’t sitting for too long. So James and I got Jamie started in the old shop first thing this morning, and went to assess the damage. When we got there, it had leaked even more and my beautiful printed materials, and other paper supplies, and dog bed were all sitting in a pool of sewage water. And we just had our floors finished over the weekend, and we are going to need a new floor in a significant portion of the work side of the new space. Lovely. Everything is ok though, and our landlord Fred is being super wonderful about it, and it could have been a lot worse, etc, etc. It was just a BIG shock this morning.

But, we still think we might move over there tonight- we’ll just have to see how it goes. I still think we’ll be in for Saturday. Or at least that is my goal. Yup. That’s about the scope of it here. I still can’t wait to get in there, but this has been a rather trying experience. We had a whole patch in the office/sales side of the new space that started peeling up as we put furniture together on it over the weekend. Apparently the painters spilled some paint thinner, cleaned it up really well, but not quite enough and the floor enamel didn’t stick. That was fixed earlier this week though. And, we still have another trip to Ikea to get a last few things we need and missed last trip, or have realized we need since. Wonderful. Oh well, it will be worth it 1,000 times over in the end.