Catch Up
Tomorrow is our second annual National Pie Day celebration and we are super excited to sell our three-inch tarts for $3 all day. We’ve kept a close eye on the weather and hope most of what comes our way tomorrow is just a slushy rain because we’ve made 3,000 tart shells and I’ll be darned if we don’t bake them all…even if that means our celebration reaches into Friday.
Here’s a catch up of our non-Atlanta Mart, non-Pie Day celebration activities:
Jeanne and I spent most of this morning with a journalist from Rural Missouri magazine. PJP will be featured in the March issue and we are so excited to be included. Not only did the reporter take copious notes and ask thoughtful questions, he climbed on a ladder and shot our photo with us looking up at him…a literal guarantee we will look skinnier than in real life. He’s forever in my inner circle.
We also sent some Jelly Jars today to Celebrity Parents magazine, who is considering running a piece on the jars in an upcoming issue. I’m not familiar with the publication because I’m not a celebrity, but I have high hopes of moving one degree of separation closer to Chrissy Teigen because she is a celebrity, a parent, and a delight to follow on Instagram.
And we sent some Jelly Jars to the person that works in the front office of our paper supplier. She met Jeanne and I in a Home Depot parking lot in Kansas City on Monday after our flight arrived from Atlanta because PJP Nifong had run out of baby pie boxes over the weekend. It takes a special person to sit in a parking lot at 6:30 at night to hand over a case of boxes, especially after our plane was delayed a bit and it was snowy. We couldn’t appreciate her more.
A person with the name Peggy Jeans called all the way from Oregon and ordered every single logo coffee mug we had left in our store and paid to have them shipped to her home. Her name - first and last - is legitimately Peggy Jeans. What are the odds?
I just googled her out of curiosity, but only information about our store came up. I noticed that our Google listing includes all of our upcoming events, like National Pie Day, January Epic Pie Tasting, and Galentine’s Day and that is sort of creepy because I never added that to our Google calendar, but I do appreciate the feature. But I wasn’t bothered at all when I realized that my new phone will add money to my Starbucks card using face recognition, and really I should be more creeped out by that, right? Whatever. I do appreciate the feature.
