Well house is on the Market! Another Wood Turning Sale in the books!

Well a couple of weeks go we put the house in Colorado on the market, we have had some lookers so far but no offers yet! I am sure we will get something soon however! We just had the roof on it replace after some hail damage during the latter part of the summer, it took this long just to be able to schedule the roofer, there was just that much damage in the springs this year. Unfortunately they did not get the new gutters on before the snow hit this weekend so that will be delayed a few days at least.

Held my second pen sale this past week at the Embassy, was not quite as strong as the one during the spring but still sold about 20 pens total and had a couple pre-orders for premium shaving hits so all in all a sucessfull sale. If it is like last sale I will probably generate another 10 sales from it over the next month with follow ons.

Other then that Terri goes back to Mn for a week after Thanksgiving and will try to get some of the work done on the floor in our living area of the new house, she already has a pretty busy weekend scheduled! Work has been going ok just very busy lately! Then again when is it not.

Pretty happy the election is over, can not believe how divided the country still is, I hope the government will be able to get something productive done but somehow I doubt it. Well this is kind of short this week but just a little worn out today, luckily it is a short work week!

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Chickens and Chicken Coop, May Leave post 2

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