john might never mention it, but he is sculpting the ‘garden of crete” out on 23rd ave NE.
some things just keep getting better in g’ville….

took my kids out for dinner and enjoyed some live music and a calzone. it was like i was a customer for the third time or something…. but better because everything was free…ha

i am excited about tomorrow. so much to do.

so, someone left a 5 gallon bucket on the outskirts of our property last week. i saw the bucket and thought, “what is that bucket there for?” but decided to wait until later to see if anyone claimed it. well, a few days later an employee saw it and said “what the hell is the bucket doing here?” and opened it. inside?? shrimp heads…. which had then been sitting in the sun for a week. needless to say he almost threw up. but- then is when things went oh so wrong…. employee decided to bag and throw out the bucket but never got the top sealed on the bucket…. then didn’t tie the bag good either… then threw it into an empty dumpster where the bag split open because, well, it’s a 5 gallon bucket inside a plastic bag getting tossed up and into an empty dumpster with no “cushion” of other bags… and then???? then you have shrimp juice all over the dumpster and spilling out inside and it’s a friday lunch…. that’s when i get the phone call.

“the dumpster gets emptied about this time on fridays… is the dumpster empty or full?” i ask… “let me check…. oh crap it’s empty.” “OK. get in the dumpster, get the bag out, get the remainder of the contents into a SEALED bucket (we have some on site. ) get the thing into a couple bags, and have a bleach-fest at the dumpster. ” “uh—- really?” ” YES!”

needless to say the ordeal was a 2 hour nightmare in the middle of a friday lunch rush and the wave of rotten seafood small was flooding a 2 block radius so that anyone smelling it was about to vomit…

wow.

how did this happen? is someone trying to sabotage us?

…never a dull moment in this business i tell you… never a dull moment…

so i don’t really understand why more people don’t get on our contests… i guess i need to advertise the contests better. we have a photo contest, a video contest, a pinecone contest and build a cardboard van contest. so far, i have been so underwhelmed by the entries of our build a van contest that i have given away free pizza to everyone who has sent us a photo or brought in a van made from the kit on our large pizza box ( about 7 people.)
but ZERO people have entered the video contest. and only a few the others… i need a poster. having a website link is not enough i guess.
this girl pictured, she placed in our pinecone contest either last year or the year before and now she’s back. why? because winning is fun, especially at lightnin’ salvage/ satchel’s. the prizes are amazing.

i saw this in a warehouse the other day… i don’t know anything about it as we were looking at the warehouse as a place for one of my employees to rent to open his own bakery and this was the current tenants project. i thought it was pretty cool though. hope i’m not leaking any major secrets here, ha.