Can’t even boil water
Hi,
Tonight I’m hosting a company picnic at my house. Besides the occasional group of relatives, we’re pretty much non-entertainers. We don’t mean to be unentertaining, we just never seem to have time to invite people over. My 10-year-old son was about shell-shocked when we told him about tonight’s picnic. “Gees, you guys never have parties,” says our son.
Including us, we’re expecting about 12 tonight. I’m not much of a cook, but I can flip steaks on the grill and cook shrimp (maybe). This morning I was boiling up the shrimp, and I boiled over the pot so many times I shouldn’t even be mentioning it here. So much for me boiling water! Hopefully I have better luck grilling t-bones tonight.
It’s been a drizzling day, so hoping it clears so we can sit out on the back deck. Got a new patio set last weekend we’d like to break in.
I don’t think this town is big enough to support a mobile home store. As you all know, most of our parts business is via the internet. When we outgrew our previous location, I had hoped to try and capture more local business, so we opened up an actual mobile home parts store (vs selling parts out of the back room).
Running newspaper ads and tv cable ads hasn’t resulted in hardly any new local business. So am thinking of pulling all advertising at the end of the month and going back to the old way of doing business. The store will always be here if any locals do decide they need something. But I’m not promising I’ll be open on Saturday’s or after 5pm. Spending money on advertising and extra labor is costing me a fortune for hardly no return.
Some of you might be getting a free copy of my mobile home repair manual, courtesy of your landlord! Today we had a park manager order 238 copies of my manual to give to their tenants. If you’re not one of the lucky ones, you can order yours here: http://www.mobilehomerepair.com/manual.htm.
In most primary elections, my home state of South Dakota is pretty much ignored. But not this year. I swear Clinton and Obama live here now! Primary is June 2, then I’m sure we won’t hear from either democratic candidate ever again as South Dakota is a big Republican state.
We’re counting down the days to the Sturgis Motorcyle Rally in early August. This year we’ve gone all out and rented a cabin at the Chip. Cabin overlooks Bear Butte. Normally we just stay with friends of friends (OK, call it mooching). But this year we want to experience the Rally as we’ve never experienced it before. You’ll definitely be hearing more about it as time gets closer.
OK, I’ve rambled on long enough for this week. If there’s anything else you want to hear more about, just post a comment or drop me an e-mail at mark@mobilehomerepair.com.
Mark