Today at the Gallery
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
OK so, I'm a little late getting things started for 2008 here. I've got excuses, but let's face it, that's all they are and you don't want to hear them.
Christmas morning, I decided to take "the family picture" again to see how much things have changed in a year.
My Family
Left to right:
Son-in-law Tim, daughter Susan (holding grandson Jackson),
me, daughter-in-law Kristin, son Richard.
me, daughter-in-law Kristin, son Richard.
The rocking horse pillow I'm holding was my hand-made gift to Jackson for his first Christmas. It is counted cross-stitch, which I have discovered I still enjoy doing (the addition of reading glasses has been essential).
Last week I was busy packing and shipping the orders that came in while we were all at the beach, but this week has settled down quite a bit. 70 degrees yesterday meant the door to the gallery could be open for a while. How bizarre is that?!
I have to reorganize the gallery in the next couple of days and I'm not looking forward to it.
A heads up, though... there's another Tough Love sale in the offing very soon.
Friday, January 18, 2008
I had to have some blood drawn this morning in anticipation of my yearly physical next week, and I had to fast this morning beforehand. Not even any coffee.
AUGH.
I went directly to a Whole Foods after the blood was drawn to get my caffeine fix and a little breakfast. I can't say I enjoyed eating the omelet out of a plastic container with a plastic fork, but it was what it was, and the omelet was actually pretty good. But I sure did notice the difference with the coffee in a paper cup with a plastic dribble lid, though.
I think if I was forced to endure that as my main caffeine delivery mechanism on a daily basis, I'd pack it in and wean myself off the stuff pretty quickly.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
4:20 am Sunday morning, I was dreaming about sitting on a beach watching manatees, when the phone blasted me awake. I hate when that happens.
It was a guy from ADT Security. I really hate when that happens.
At least it wasn't the alarm going off, but just a "trouble signal" from the unit that the battery is low on the wireless holdup button.
Thanks for imagining I might have been upset had you waited until oh.. maybe 8:00 am to call me with that news, guys.
::::sigh:::::
So here I am at the gallery and the unit is emitting an annoying little chirp about once every minute. Certainly a very good reminder to do something about the battery between now and tomorrow, to be sure.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
A few weeks ago, I received a confusing phone call, apparently from Verizon. The guy spun some tale about how they were contacting me to find out if I wanted to continue receiving just one bill for local and long distance, or did I want two bills. He said that most businesses in my area were electing to continue to receive one bill. I didn't have a clue.
I asked for more details and the more he talked, the more confused I got. Something about how the contract with the long distance carrier hadn't been renewed. I still didn't have a clue.
He started putting some figures out there into the mix. Increase of $45. Now, since I think I pay entirely enough for my phone service, that got my attention. You mean my phone bill is going to go up by $45? He said he didn't have specifics. I decided I didn't want to deal with it. I told him to have someone who was familiar with my account call me.
After I hung up, I got suspicious, and called Verizon. They said the phone call was somebody trying to get me to switch my long distance carrier and I'd never know what hit me. He said just to be sure, we'd put a lock on my account so the long distance carrier couldn't be changed out from under me.
I got my phone bill the other day and it is $25 less than it has been for the last two years.
Now I'm really confused.
Friday, February 8, 2008
I had to replace my washer and dryer this week at home. The purchase included a $65 charge for delivery and a $10 charge to haul away my old one. And a rebate form for free delivery and haul away (i.e., to get the $75 back). I'm always annoyed by rebate forms. Why don't they just give me the discount and not make me jump through the hoops.
I'm sure they're banking on a lot of folks forgetting about jumping through the hoops.
The receipt gave a website where you could submit your rebate info online. That beats getting an envelope together and finding a stamp, so I tried to do that. Only the website said that my purchase wasn't eligible for any rebates. It gave a customer service number to call. (You know how much I love those!). I called and got the guy in Dubai. He tried to find my information with my home phone number. No luck. Then he tried using my address. No luck (good thing they were able to find my home to deliver the new washer and dryer!). How about the sales check number? He got real excited about that. Yes.. that would work.
But alas, it didn't.
He told me he was sorry he couldn't help me, but that I should go ahead and submit the form through the mail.
I tell ya.. they count on people just not going through the trouble.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
In the last couple of days, I have received at least 8 postcards from someone. They are hand addressed, with a stamp (i.e., not sent through a postage meter). There are several different ones, all showing a different piece of pottery. The pots in the photos actually seem rather interesting. They are coming from Manchester, NH. That's all I can tell.
There's no message. No return address. Nothing identifying the potter.
Bizarre.
Perhaps they are meant to get my interest up and then the person will actually contact me.
Is it a good marketing strategy? Right now, I'm thinking, "not so much."
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Yesterday, after I sent out the email newsletter, I received a reply from someone on the mailing list who said, "Please let me know when you have a sale."
I thought back to the discount I offered the first of December for my birthday. I thought back to various discounts I offered before Christmas. I thought back to the discount I offered the week after Christmas. I thought back to the discount I offered two weeks ago.
Am I sending out postcards with no information on them, folks?
Sigh.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Members of the Leesburg Downtown Business Association (LDBA) received a very nice invitation from the Leesburg Historic District Residents Association to a dinner. The invitation says:
This is a great opportunity for shop owners to come and get to know the local downtown residents and vice-versa. You are encouraged to bring your brochures and/or business cards as there will be a display table available, so that downtown residents can pick them up.
Now, it's a very nice gesture, and perhaps it is "a great opportunity" for us to get to know one another, but, I can't help wondering...
What's wrong with this picture?
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Last night was the dinner hosted by the Leesburg Historic District Residents Association. It was held at the Thomas Birkby House which is an absolutely lovely place. A large tent was set up in the courtyard, and there were about 9 large round tables set up inside for the group.
When I arrived, I saw two distinct groups of people -- one that was standing and chatting by the buffet tables, and one seated at one of the tables. There was about a 15-foot zone of separation between the two groups. I had the feeling immediately that I had been transported back to Junior High and was just arriving at the sock hop.
When people I don't know come into the gallery, I will smile and greet them, and if I sense that they are interested in a conversation, I will try to start one. I've gotten very comfortable doing that over the last seven years. But.... take me out of my comfort zone (the gallery) and put me in a new environment with people I don't know and I just want to run for the door. I am not a natural born mingler.
So, I assessed the situation and walked over to join "my group" -- the merchants who were sitting at the table.
As more people arrived, Judy Kozacik, one of the owners of the Birkby House (and a member of the LDBA) came over to our table and said, "how can we get the residents and the merchants to get together?"
It seemed obvious that the merchants should simply not be allowed to all sit at one table. We were going to have to spread out and start smiling.
Eventually, we had to get up and go to the buffet line, and I noticed a woman that I recognized as a customer in the gallery, and I went over and visited with her and wound up sitting at her table. OK so it was a safe route to go, but I did move to another table. After we had all eaten, the presidents of the LDBA and the RA gave a few welcoming remarks, and then we went around the room and introduced ourselves a little bit.
The residents have been invited to the LDBA's spring progressive dinner. We have appetizers at one business, then move on to others for salad, main course, and dessert. It's a good way for us to get to know what the other businesses are all about, so we can better help our customers who are looking for something specific in the downtown area.
I guess it is a good start at us all becoming one big happy family with a common goal of preserving something special.
Friday, April 4, 2008
I got my monthly statement from the folks who process my credit card payments for me -- the people who make sure the amount gets charged to your card, and deposited in the gallery bank account (and you thought it was magic, didn't you?).
They are raising my rates again. It costs me about 2% of the sale to take the payment via credit card. If I have to key in the numbers (online sales), it's closer to 3%.
But there is something called a non-qualified rate that is now 4.25%. I need to find out what that is and make sure I don't do that. It might be when I have to key in the number, but I don't have the security code on the back.
Ever wonder why a merchant will ask you "debit or credit?" It's because it costs more to process as a credit card and they're hoping you'll say "debit."
If your bank doesn't charge you to make a purchase with your debit card (and why SHOULD they?), do your friendly merchant a favor and tell them to run it through as a debit.
Which brings me to something that I can't figure out. Why does my bank charge me several dollars to use an ATM machine from another bank. That is an electronic transaction that costs virtually NOTHING to process. And yet they offer free online banking and they'll send a check -- an actual paper check via snail mail -- to anyone I want, when that costs money for the paper, and to print the check, and the envelope and the stamp. (Yes I understand that a lot of online transactions are actually processed electronically.. I'm talking about sending my sister a check...) And they have to process the check when it comes through. Why is that free?
Mysteries of the universe.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
I read back over the entries for the year and realized I had a couple of updates.
Phone calls allegedly from Verizon. I received another phone call, this time telling me that they had accidentally put my service in the "residential" category, and they had corrected the error and had switched it back and not to worry, they were working to get me the lowest rates they could. This led to me asking a few questions and getting thoroughly confused once again by the answers. Again, I hung up and called the Verizon number on my bill to learn that it was a scammer, trying to get me to switch service. From now on I think I will just hang up whenever anyone claiming to be from Verizon calls.
The rebate for my new washer/dryer. Well, it arrived. Made out to Beth W Loy. I figured if I went face to face with a teller, I might not be able to cash it, so I just deposited it at the drive-through. So far, so good. Please, please... don't make me to back to Sears to get them to issue another check made out with the proper name.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
I got my 2008 business license in the mail today from the Town of Leesburg. Once again, they have me categorized under "Hobby, Toy and Games Stores." When I got last year's license, I called to let them know that it was a mis-categorization. The person I talked to said it didn't matter, but that he would fix it. I fantasized that they'd send me another license, but they never did.
This year, I got a little more forceful. I told the guy that I know it doesn't matter, but.. "It matters to me." I told him I wanted another license issued, with the category changed to "Art Dealer" (which is the category they assigned to The Potomac Gallery up the street.)
He fiddled around with the computer for a bit and then said it would go out in today's mail.
It's the little things that make you nuts.
(Maybe I'll stop getting calls from people who want to book children's birthday parties now...)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Well, the guy from the Town of Leesburg came through. I got my new business license in the mail today, all properly categorized as an "Art Dealer."
I can move on to other annoyances now.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
The current "buzz" amongst the merchants is what to do about the 4th of July. Technically, it's the first Friday in July. But is it First Friday? Are we all going to stay open until 9:00 that night? Heck.. are any of us even going to be open during the day!?
Most of the merchants I've talked to plan to be closed all day. I've always been closed on the 4th of July. It just doesn't seem like it's a big shopping day. People are having backyard picnics, or going to different parades. Since the 4th of July is a Friday, no doubt many people will make it a long weekend and leave town.
Does that mean that it might be a good weekend for ME to leave town? My gut tells me there won't be a lot of business on Saturday the 5th, either. Of course, "people going out of town" works both way. There might be a lot of local people bringing out-of-town guests downtown that Saturday.
I've seen rainy Tuesdays that were good, and sunny Saturdays that weren't.
You just never know.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
The members of the downtown business association have been invited to a candidates forum tonight. The Major, and the members of the Town Council who are running for re-election will be around to answer any questions we have about their ideas to improve the downtown business climate.
Now, when the LDBA launched the Rewards Card Program (spend $250 downtown, and receive a 20% discount from one of the participating merchants) a month or so ago, the Mayor and the members of the Town Council were all given Rewards Cards. We specifically were interested in seeing whether their support of the downtown included making purchases themselves.
I plan to attend the meeting and ask them all to show us how many stamps they each have on their Rewards Card so far.
Could be interesting.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Well, in politics, it's all about who you know. During the question/answer period last night, the guy calling on people to ask questions didn't know me.. so he never called on me. I shot my hand straight up in the air at the first opportunity, but alas, I didn't get called on.
It was nice to hear all the candidates expressing a sincere desire to make sure that the uniqueness and charm of the downtown area is preserved, and their ideas for helping to bring more people downtown to support the merchants.
Still would have been nice to have put them on the spot for a tangible showing of support.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Flower and Garden Show was very disappointing. The weather was beautiful on Saturday and there were plenty of folks out and about, but sales on Saturday were only about 1/4 of what they were on Saturday of the show last year. Ouch.
It rained buckets on Sunday, so the crowds were way down. Surprisingly, the people that did brave the weather were more serious about shopping, so sales were actually a hair better on Sunday than they were on Saturday. That tells you more about how bad they were on Saturday than how good they were on Sunday.
Very disappointing.
If that weren't enough, late in the day on Saturday, I noticed that it was getting quite warm in the gallery. I had a wonderful fantasy that it was just because the A/C couldn't keep up with the warm weather, but since it only got to about 80 Saturday, I had a feeling that was just wishful thinking on my part.
Things had not improved by yesterday, so I notified the landlord. The A/C guy just climbed down from the roof with a very old, nasty, disgusting, and very broken fan that is causing the problem. Doesn't look like it's worked in years. He rattled off a list of other things that were wrong, too.
Bleeeeeech.
It's going to be several days before it can be fixed (I have a new fantasy of a brand new, energy-efficient system, myself).
The good news is that it doesn't look like it's going to be miserably hot for the next few days, but I'm sure it won't be pleasant late in the day. When the sun comes around, it really beats in the front window in the late afternoon.
If you think I'm going to stick it out until 5:00 without A/C if it does get hot.. then you're the one with a fantasy!
I'm fortunate to have a wonderful landlord who will take care of it promptly.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
What a wonderful landlord!
Some guys showed up today to take out the old unit:
Say goodnight, Gracie!
Vintage (circa 1960) HVAC system
so it can be replaced with a brand new unit, including a heat pump outside.
The guy banged around on it for a little while, and unscrewed here and there, and in a very few minutes.. they hauled it out on a dolly.
All Gone!
Any little animals living back in there I should know about?
Thank heaven the temperature is pretty moderate. I've also learned that I can get a cross-breeze going through the gallery if I open the back door, too.
Bad news is there must be a wasp nest nearby, because whenever I look up, there are 2 or 3 of them trapped inside against the window. Sometimes I can coax them back out through the open door. Sometimes I can't get to them. Sometimes.. well.. you know what happens then.
8:00 tomorrow morning, they'll be back with the new unit.
What a wonderful landlord!
In other news. Here's a link to a story in the local paper about the Meet the Candidates Forum last week.
Interesting reading.
Friday, April 25, 2008
I'm speaking to you from my very comfortably cool gallery. Brand new HVAC system, complete with a heat pump out back. Took them about 5 hours to install it, and they got it all installed before the afternoon started to heat up.
Here's what I like best:
See that?
Energy Rating of 100
That must mean it is 100% efficient, and uses no electricity whatsoever, right?!!
It will be very interesting to compare my electric bills going forward. They just can't help but be less. That will be very nice.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The mystery postcards are BAAAAACK.
You didn't believe me, did you?
Who ARE you?
And why are you wasting money sending me postcards without any contact information on them?
The buzz downtown
Recently there was a spate of shoplifting on the street. When it happens in one store, we try to alert the others to be on the lookout, especially when we believe we know who did it.
Several of the shop owners compared notes and finally someone recognized the girls who were responsible. It turned out one of them was the daughter of another shop owner on the block. That shop owner was horrified and mortified and told the others that she would make sure it was taken care of immediately.
Within a few days, the girls returned with the stolen merchandise. They paid for what they had stolen, apologized, and gave the merchandise back.
It was good to see the mother take immediate action and I hope it works to set the girls back on the right path.
As difficult as it is for to know that people are stealing from us, we certainly never would have thought it would have been someone from "inside the family" so to speak.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Well, it's pretty quiet around here today. It's a rainy crappy day outside and that can only mean one thing: While it might be very pleasant sitting outside this afternoon because the sun won't be blinding me.. the bench outside is going to be wet.
I've turned my attentions from spam postcards (that at least cost the SENDER something) to spam faxes. I've gotten two in the last three days and it irritates me. I found an FCC website where I can complain. So I jumped through the hoops. Yes, there is a phone number on the fax for me to call to remove my name from the list, but please tell me what the point of that is? The next one will just come from another number. It shouldn't be about retroactively removing my name from the list AFTER I've gotten a fax. Did you know, by the way, that the Do Not Call list only applies to residential phone numbers? That's irritating, too.
And I can't believe Erik was stupid enough to give up the immunity necklace last night.
Wonder if he wants some cheap HEALTH INSURANCE, or needs AIR DUCTS/VENT CLEANING. If so, I've got just the faxes for him to take a look at.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Sunday is Mother's Day. Monday is my own mom's birthday. A couple of months ago, I decided it would be nice to head on out to Wyoming this weekend and see her. I'm taking my daughter and grandson along, and my sister is coming in from Michigan, so it will be a lot of fun.
The gallery will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I'll be back on Thursday.
The website goes on uninterrupted.
Friday, May 16, 2008
When I got home last night, I found one of those environmentally unfriendly plastic bags hooked around my doorknob. Inside was a pencil, a cheesy (I'm talking CHEESY!!!) keyring with a pink plastic pig trinket on it (a piggy bank, I guess), and a flyer announcing the Grand Opening of a branch bank near me.
On what planet did someone think that a pencil and a cheapo keyring will make me slap my hand to my forehead and say, "Holy Crow! I want to do business with this bank!!!!"
I'm wondering where on the scale of Great Marketing Ideas this falls -- to the left or right of the postcards with no contact info?
Saturday, May 17, 2008
A woman came in this morning and was practically drooling over the pots. She said it was such a joy to find a place with such wonderful pottery. That made me feel good.
I got some new pots in from Willem Gebben. My favorite is:
Spotted Personal Teapot and Gunomi
Love the dots!
Check out the rest of the new pots here.
Friday, May 23, 2008
The landlord is having the back and side of the building painted. Workers have been here all week, scraping and blasting and sanding and priming and whoknowswhatall.
The Project
Today, it's salsa music!!
They have been parked in my spot all week (the white van with the ladders on top), so I've had to park further down in someone else's reserved spot. I've made it known to the landlord that I'm parking there, so if the person whose spot I'm taking comes in (I guess he's been out all week, conveniently for me), to please tell me to move it and not have it automatically towed.
I can't complain. It's wonderful that the landlord is taking such good care of this building. I just hope they will be finished soon.
The nuisance faxes continue (see May 9th). I've figured out what I can do to stop them. I can turn my printer off when I go home at night. If the printer isn't on, it can't sense a fax coming in and pick up and receive it. That should do it.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The mailman brought me a surprise today. One of my good customers in California is a pastry chef, and he made me a batch of chocolate chip cookies (my favorite kind).
They are small. They are delicious. They are wonderful.
I have a lot of great new pots this week. I got all the pictures taken before the battery on my camera died. While it recharges, I'm going to clean up some files on the website and get the artists' pages ready for the images when I get them processed.
It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
Fortunately I have some chocolate chip fortifications to keep me company.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Last August, I discovered a couple of tiny kittens in my backyard. Being the cat person that I am, I immediately did a really stupid thing -- put food out for them.
Within a few days, I realized there were four kittens and a mother cat coming to dinner every evening. I found a very inexpensive brand of dry cat food.
I worried about the coming winter.
I worried about procreation.
It took me a few months to figure out what to do and who to contact. I found an organization that traps and neuters feral cats, then releases them back to where they were caught. (Evidently a feral cat will never be a sweet little lap kitty, so you can't adopt them out.)
We managed to trap three of the four kittens one night. Two males and a female.
I continued to buy the cheap dry cat food. Sometimes I was able to catch a look at which cats were still coming to eat, but most of the time, I just found the empty bowl the next evening when I went out to feed them.
Last night I saw the kitten that "got away" the night we set the traps. And the original mother cat. And -- oh lordy be -- at least two brand new little fluffballs. I'm betting there are a couple more that I missed.
AUGH.
Just.. AUGH....
Thursday, June 19, 2008
The monthly meeting of the LDBA (Leesburg Downtown Business Association) was this morning. Karen Jones, the new Business Retention Coordinator for the town of Leesburg was there. She expressed her excitement to be working with the group in this capacity. She said she absolutely loved downtown Leesburg and she wanted to make sure it remained special. She said she lives just outside the historic area, and she comes downtown "all the time."
I asked her what she did when she came downtown. She smiled brightly and said, "Just walk around."
I should have asked her to show us HER Downtown Rewards Card.
On the way back to the gallery after the meeting, I stopped at Boodleby's and picked out a baby gift for my nephew's new baby. Yes, I could have gone to Macy's and gotten something, but I need to be ready if someone ever asks to see MY Downtown Rewards Card.
In other news, I got my second electric bill since getting the new HVAC unit two months ago, and this one was for a full month with the new unit. I compared it to last year's bill at this time, and it is less than half.
I have received some wonderful new pots from Sequoia Miller, and a new artist, Kent Harris. I'm hoping to get them online either today or tomorrow.
Byron Temple's pots are selling well these last couple of weeks. I noticed yesterday that I have a few of them that never made it online for one reason or another. I'll have to attend to that as well.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Whew! The website is now updated with the new pots from Sequoia Miller and Kent Harris as well as the last of the Byron Temple pots. I am ashamed to admit there were actually 6 pots that I hadn't put up on the website yet. I guess when there were more of them here, it was a bigger job to sort them out. But they're all up there now. This is the end -- there ain't no mo' tucked away anywhere. I promise.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
I've been having a good time today. And I may have stumbled on to something. Back in April for the Flower and Garden Show and I went through the gallery with a vengence and put yellow, green and red stickers on many, many things. The yellow stickers indicated 25% off, the green 30% off and the red, 50% off. I made several big SPRING CLEARANCE SALE signs and sprinkled them around the gallery. What I noticed, just looking at the people who came in and browsed around was... no one cared that things were up to 50% off. If you had videos of people roaming through the gallery the week before, and the week of... you would not have been able to tell by people's behavior (or gallery sales) that there was anything different.
Kinda frustrating.
I decided I could NOT sell things at full price just as easily as I was NOT selling them at 25%, 30%, and 50% off. So I took down the big signs. But I left all the stickers on things. Basically because there were so many of them, and I figured that I could always put another sign up.
When people have come in since May and asked about the stickers, I have just smiled and said, "They are just inventory tags for me". And they accepted that.
This morning, I decided that today -- if anyone asked about the stickers, I would tell them about the sale. Kind of like Groucho and saying the secret word.
It's been a good time. Quite a few people have asked (seems like more than usual), and every one of those who asked, wound up buying SOMETHING.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
People seem to like the idea of discovering a sale.
I may keep it up for a while. They can go back to being "just inventory tags" any time, after all.
And now you know a little secret, don't you?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
This morning, when I discovered the last stash of Byron Temple pots, my first thought was "Oh, this is bad.. this is very bad. They'll NEVER believe me that I wasn't holding these back."
I figured I'd just have to grovel Big Time, and trust that you all would be happier to have a chance at a few more pots than you were disappointed in me that they weren't all out there on the website before this.
A short time after I discovered the pots, the phone rang and a woman asked what my hours were today. I told her and that was the end of the conversation. I went on with my business and moved the pots out from the shelf and on to my desk -- on their way upstairs to be photographed for the website.
Maybe an hour later, while the pots were still on my desk, a woman came in and looked around a bit before coming up to the desk. She immediately picked up one of the bowls and started looking at it with a great deal of interest.
I looked at her and asked, "Do you know what it is you're looking at?" She smiled and said, "Byron Temple!" It turns out she was the woman who had called earlier, and she is from North Carolina and she and her husband had come to DC and she had told him that the one thing she wanted to make sure they did while they were here was to come out to the gallery. And it further turns out that back in October of 2006, she had purchased one of Byron's pots in that first auction I held when they first came in. I couldn't believe the timing! She even said that she had been watching the sale online, and was hoping against hope that I actually DID have a little secret stash of a few more somewhere. She wound up buying two of the bowls and we had a lovely conversation.
It's all good, right?
Right?
I do hope so.
Friday, July 18, 2008
I think I've got some good karma working for me with the surprise stash of Byron Temple pots I found. Eight of them have already found homes. Only two left.
It is all good.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Well, I spent the better part of yesterday trying to figure out why I couldn't upload anything to the website. I know I didn't change anything from last week! I sent off an email to the technical support folks at the web hosting place, and they followed up, and then sent me an email last last night saying they were unable to reproduce the problem.
When I tried again this morning, it worked perfectly. Again, I know I didn't change anything from yesterday (when it DIDN'T work).
I wish the web hosting folks would own the fact that something changed on THEIR end, but I guess the important thing is -- whatever it was, it's gone now.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
I just received the order for the last of the pots from the estate of Byron Temple. I feel kinda sad. There have been some really incredible pots pass through the gallery in the last almost 5 years since the executor brought the first group by. Over the years, I found the owners for 163 of the pots in the estate. (And yes, I managed to snag a few for myself in that time.)
Not bad.
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