Day one is over. Sales have not been as good as any other show I have done all year. Today, I sold a third of what I usually do on the first day of a show. THAT is not a good thing....
I have noticed that sales have been shrinking here each year. We will probably not return next year. This is our business, not a hobby.
On a liter note, a chicken that has been roaming John Bryan State Park campground. Last night after we returned from our set-up we were watching this hen wander around until some thoughtless campers let their dog chase it into the forest. We did not see anything else of the chicken the rest of the night and this morning.
Fast forward to this afternoon.....I am walking back to the motorhome for a short break and guess who hitched a ride under our rig. You guessed it! Now the hen is at the grounds of the show! Two people have said they will take the chicken home to their farms if they can catch it. That will be a better life for little Henny Penny!
We had a visitor in our booth near the end of the day. We had Oliver in there and she is a dog photographer and she took some photos of Oliver to put on her blog. They should be on her blog in a couple of days at www.dogpatchpix.com.
I sure wanted to steal her camera! It was the second camera that I wanted to cameranap today. sigh......
The campground has a nice group of campers this evening. Fire rings sport orange flames moving like ballet dancers. She sparks jump into the sky providing us with peaceful shows of fireworks. All is well.
Tomorrow is another day. If I can sell the antique Canadian Production Spinning Wheel, we will have a better show and I have a feeling that one of the vendors is coveting it. We shall see.
Of course, John and I are looking for a smaller weaving loom to take in the motorhome, so this show might not be a profit maker anyway if we can find the right loom. God is in control.....either we find it or we don't. Either we have a great show, or we don't....it's all in His hands and we trust him for all.
Dinner is ready, I must go....
Be safe everyone, and God Bless ...... your day, your travel and just you!
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Didn't quite make it to Indiana!
Monday night, we stopped in Davenport, IA for the night. Tuesday morning, we decided to look for a camp grounds and stay for a day or two. That would have made us leaving yesterday. Well, so much for those plans. We decided to remain here at Fisherman's Cove in Moline, Illinois until Saturday. Moline is just across the Mississippi from Davenport.
Fisherman's Cove is a campground of the Army Corps of Engineers. It is well maintained with spacious campsites, at one of the locks on the Mississippi and this time of year, full of May Flies! The May Flies are the only negative and not much of a negative.
I have had my spinning wheel out and have been spinning a lot of yarn as I watch the barges go in and out of the locks. Today, we will walk on the dike to the locks, do a bit of shopping and I will spin. I sold a lot of hand spun yarn at the Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival and need to build my inventory. Now that's not a bad thing, is it!
The May Flies could fly away! I wish. They don't do anything negative, but just bug us....get that? they bug us....ha! They love to sneak into the motor home and tickle us. Actually, they are not as bad as regular house flies.
Something I forgot to mention is that I have some new Silkworms. Why? Who knows! I wanted to try to raise at least one batch of them for the cocoons to sell and to spin in some of my yarn. Selling them, I see no problem, spinning them, I just don't know. I have never spun from the cocoon, so I don't know what I am getting into.
The worms, hatched June 4th and now are about an inch long. The literature on the web says that they will grow to about three inches then start to spin their cocoons. I am not clear what I am to do next, but will find out. Thanks to the Internet and the library, I will have my information soon. I do know that I have about 2 to 3 weeks before the next step.
Till next time, blessings and be safe....
Fisherman's Cove is a campground of the Army Corps of Engineers. It is well maintained with spacious campsites, at one of the locks on the Mississippi and this time of year, full of May Flies! The May Flies are the only negative and not much of a negative.
I have had my spinning wheel out and have been spinning a lot of yarn as I watch the barges go in and out of the locks. Today, we will walk on the dike to the locks, do a bit of shopping and I will spin. I sold a lot of hand spun yarn at the Iowa Sheep and Wool Festival and need to build my inventory. Now that's not a bad thing, is it!
The May Flies could fly away! I wish. They don't do anything negative, but just bug us....get that? they bug us....ha! They love to sneak into the motor home and tickle us. Actually, they are not as bad as regular house flies.
Something I forgot to mention is that I have some new Silkworms. Why? Who knows! I wanted to try to raise at least one batch of them for the cocoons to sell and to spin in some of my yarn. Selling them, I see no problem, spinning them, I just don't know. I have never spun from the cocoon, so I don't know what I am getting into.
The worms, hatched June 4th and now are about an inch long. The literature on the web says that they will grow to about three inches then start to spin their cocoons. I am not clear what I am to do next, but will find out. Thanks to the Internet and the library, I will have my information soon. I do know that I have about 2 to 3 weeks before the next step.
Till next time, blessings and be safe....
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