The Greatest Treasure
I started at PJP early this morning - partially because we had a lot to do and partially because the productivity in total quiet is amazing. And that’s not even the point, but by a series of dumb events, I dumped an entire stick of melted butter onto my shoe. It soaked through my shoe and through my sock and I can’t begin to tell you what it feels like to have a buttery sock and a buttery foot. It was so much butter than when I arrived home NINE HOURS later, our dog zeroed in on my shoe and began licking it like he found the greatest treasure of his entire dog life.
Here’s what else is going on:
The landscaping company at Nifong spent today digging up trees and planting trees with seemingly no plan. Add another $41,045 to our common area maintenance charges in January.
And over at West, I started to get irritated when I just looked at the empty Macy’s, David’s Bridal, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond spaces. I could list at least 15 retails stores that Ellery and I enjoy in other cities that this town needs, so in case The Kroenke Group needs some inspiration, please call these national chains and offer them thousands of retail square feet at a reasonable price: Home Goods, TJ Maxx, World Market, DSW Shoes, Trader Joe’s, Nordstrom Rack, Anthropologie, J Crew, Free People, Whole Foods, Sephora (the real one, not a Kohl’s knockoff), Cava, Restoration Hardware, North Face, and Crate & Barrel. You are welcome.
Both stores have just a very few tickets left for the Pumpkin Palooza pie tasting this Thursday, so be sure to purchase to see how we make six variations in pumpkin pie. We worked a little bit on some crazy ideas today, so this will be fun. Unless you just hate pumpkin…in that case, choose regular Epic Pie Tasting next week.
We have the cutest Halloween tart packs available for pre-order. Ellery and Jessi are completely responsible and I helped in no way except to fetch the ingredients they needed. If you voted in the Instagram poll, the winners were: the mummy, the ghost, the cookie monster, the spider web, and the jack-o-latern. The packs are $24.99 and available by pre-order for either store through Halloween.
Someone called today to offer us lower credit card processing fees and that’s pretty normal because it happens at least three times a day, five days a week. I said we used Square and weren’t interested in changing, but thanks anyway and then I hung up. And would you believe HE CALLED ME BACK? That takes guts. He wanted to know why I didn’t want to switch and said that he could save us 90%, but I said there’s always more to it than just saving 90%. When Jeanne gets sales calls, she meows at them because they generally will just hang up. And honestly, it crossed my mind. Thankfully, he hung up before I hit a new meowing low.
