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| 06/11/2008: "Back"
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At last! I've actually been working on flutes the last two days, after a three-week+ hiatus due to studio-space relocation. The downsizing was even more disruptive than I'd expected, and combined with all the other pressing activities of the season it knocked the fluteworks out of action for the better part of a month.
Only a month to go until the Oregon Country Fair, so it's time to dig in and get serious about production for that event. I'd vowed to prepare long enough in advance to avoid a frenzied, stressful rush in the last pre-fair week or two, so we'll see how that goes in the wake of our long production lapse...
Still don't have all the seasonal garden veggies planted either-- although we've been eating greens and stuff out of the new community garden plot for the last two weeks. It's been unseasonably cool over the last few weeks: so far, June temperatures are running 5 degrees F. lower than average, which is a LOT climatologically speaking. My tomatoes, peppers and squash are severely retarded! That is, they've pretty much been just sitting there passively and not making nearly the normal amount of growth for this time of year. Too bad, since one of the main reasons for securing that full-sun community garden plot was in order to grow warm-weather veggies to better advantage. Oh well, it's bound to warm up eventually.
Time to get back to the blog, too-- report on current flute goings-on soon. I'm not sure whether it's due to economic conditions or whatnot, but for the past two months the flute biz has been mighty slow. Normally I don't have to do much in order to draw sufficient sales to pay the bills, since enough people stumble into this site and eventually figure out how to order a flute at just about the right pace to keep me as busy as I want to be. At this rate I'll have to do some actual, proactive marketing soon!
C'mon people: there are quite a few very nice flutes just sitting around here! Let's get with the program and order a flute! (Unfortunately, a major casualty of the studio downsizing is that I don't have a dedicated photography area and haven't figured out how to replace that yet.)
Back to the Complex now-- catch y'all again tomorrow or the next day. --r.
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