Add It To The List
Today we loaded 12,000 nine inch pie tins into our vast outdoor storage container, making it the very first addition in our stockpile for the coming weeks. (And last week, KOMU noticed our social media post about our storage container and came to do a story on it. I’ve been interviewed a lot in the last seven years, but never about stockpile purchasing.) At any rate, we’ve come a long way since our earliest fall baking seasons. Let’s take a look at what we were doing around this time - (just six weeks out from Thanksgiving!):
2020: On this day last year, we had 340 orders for Thanksgiving. Today, we have 551. Uh….
2019: Jeanne drove to Kansas City to pick up baby pie boxes because we were completely out. And I drove to Sam’s to buy emergency pecans. I wish my current self could go tell my former self about rentable storage.
2018: We rented the former Wren’s Shoe Repair location for our secondary pie pickup location for Thanksgiving. And we started to wonder if it was time to move from our Buttonwood location to a larger location. (Spoiler alert: we moved. Second spoiler alert: We eventually decided we needed two stores. Dear future self: go ahead - open that fifth store, you’ll be fine.)
2017: Jeanne appeared on the cover of MU Healthcare’s quarterly magazine with the doctor that prevented her untimely death from a pulmonary embolism early in 2017. Jeanne does absolutely NOTHING with minimum fanfare and that’s long on the list of things to love about her.
2016: I was on my soapbox about the impending $1.1 million expenditure for a park at the intersection of Broadway and Providence, despite all of the other needs of our city at the time. There is at least one shooting a weekend downtown lately…but hey, we are still working on the park thing.
2015: We had 200 Thanksgiving orders in the books. And I found a satellite dish in our dumpster. Those were the halcyon days.
2014: We made 300 tarts and it almost killed us. I don’t miss the learning curve that occurred from those days in 2014 to now. It was basically uphill both ways in the snow.
2013: We spent $275 on logotournament.com to make ourselves an official business with a logo designed by an Australian artist. Often I wonder what that guy is doing now or if he wonders about all the logos he has created over the years. (Probably not, because he is a normal person unlike me who dwells on the pointless.). At any rate, if he were in America, I’d add him to the Thanksgiving list…
