Stick a fork in it, it’s done. (Of course, we reserve the right to do it again.) The Your Daily Fiber store at 4019 S. Mason is officially closed. I would like to thank you guys for all the support. Actually, “we” would like to thank you guys for all the support, but I’m the one writing this story, so we’re only going to talk about me. I’m saying I. I thought about the good and the bad about closing the store. Let’s start with the bad. Packing and moving. Someone needs to lift heavy things. Go ahead; guess who that someone is. Yep, ‘Ol Monner! While Elaine and Ivy take a sabbatical from selling and teaching, I will continue to do what I’ve always done. Lifting heavy things. That’s why I love
The time is near. Your Daily Fiber (brick and mortar) closes in six days. It is kind of emotional, not so much for me, but for Ivy and Elaine. We’ve had bunches of customers come in to say good-bye. Not to me, mostly to Ivy. There was a day that I went into the store after a long, arduous, physically taxing, mind-draining day on the construction site, I walked into the store to find Ivy and a customer with tears streaming down their faces. Well, I can’t really say if tears were streaming down there faces, tears were streaming down to the top of their masks. Where the tears went from there is anyone’s guess. I’m sure there would have been a hug, had it not been for that (construction language
So much has happened since we last chatted. We have reached our last month of operating our brick and mortar location. If you think that is bittersweet, you would be correct. Let’s talk about the sweet. For what seems like forever, we have worked Saturdays. Elaine and Ivy been scheduling lessons on Saturday for years. Elaine has been teaching weaving and spinning. Elaine is getting to slow down on Saturday lessons. Sweet! In this past month, we have caught Elaine looking for kayaks on the web. OK, that’s a little bitter, at least for me. Elaine was looking at tandem kayaks. If you’ve read Mumbling’s for any length of time, you know by job at Your Daily Fiber was to lift, push and carry. A ta