Personal Review of 2005
The end of 2005 is official as is the beginning of 2006. What a year! Can you beleive it's been less than a year since that outlandishly extravagant inauguration? Here at Casa d'Coyote..it's been very interesting....
We started 2005 quietly enough. We had generated enough money to survive the slow months of January & February. To tell the truth, March isn't all that great either. We had survived another New England winter of snow storms, blizzards, sleet, high winds and the occasional Nor'Easter. By April we had planned our powwow schedule and were enjoying Spring.
One Friday we came home from somewhere or other and as usual, we checked orders. Mud Puppy was at the computer. She said we had over 40 orders! That's alot of orders for less than two hours! The orders kept coming in....all weekend. It was Mud Puppy that noticed that most of the orders were for the same shirt, Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History. By Saturday, we had over 100 orders and I was beginning to think there had been a rally that no one told us about. On Monday morning we found out that the shirt had been mentioned on Oprah. Cool, very cool!
We learned much from that. We learned not to hire friends. We learned that some customers are down right rude and others are absolute sweethearts! There was Virginia who wanted her shirt exactly two days after she put in her order and felt justified in calling our toll free number and belittleing us to her hearts content. There was Karen who left a message on our voice mail. She wanted a shirt and could we please call her? However, she had no answering machine, no voice mail, no computer. We tried calling her a few times. One day she called us. She was upset because we hadn't returned her call. She asked many questions, most of which were somewhat intelligent. She wanted the shirt in a size we don't carry but can get. It was a very, very large size. I told her it would be a few weeks due to production schedules. She said fine. Then she called and called and called. Karen called almost daily....looking for her shirt. We finally returned her money order...and sent out a shirt. There was Mary who received two orders and returned the extra, insisting that it would be her pleasure and at her expense! There's Caroline in Alabama who is absolutely wonderful.
Every time she calls it's a pleasure. We met a couple of womans groups this year...that's always very cool! We love helping womans groups generate awareness and money.
In May, Mud Puppy & I won a beautiful drum made by Timothy Swallow...a gifted Lakota drum maker. That drum sits here in my room. I love it!
We changed screen printers twice. Working with the very large union shop didn't work for us. The shop was used to orders numbering in the thousands...we were just to small. We switched to a place I can walk to. It's a small shop, family owned & operated. We like it.
My daughter moved to California and moved back here. She and her family are trying to re-establish their lives here. It's hard because she gave away or sold everything she had to relocate. She then came back with nothing. I could have told her it wouldn't work..had she asked me. Not to many New England girls can live in the Southern Californian desert.
Mud Puppy is designing her own web site. Trashy Tee's will be up soon. She's very excited about it. I love the designs she's coming up with. They're so cool! They're young and colorful and yes...they have a touch of trash!
Our Christmas was quiet, as usual. We live a simple life. We enjoy our family and friends. We love our job. We love meeting folks from all over the world.
We've spoken to people in New Orleans, and stood with Cindy Sheehan. We've contributed money to grassroots environmental groups and pro women groups. We continue to protest the wars that this illegal administration wages...be it the war on women, freedom, our planet, our future, the Constitution, drugs, Iraq, prosperity or our children.
We've lost friends. Ben Spirit Seeker left us in August. I wasn't able to be with him as he passed. I did make sure that Mud Puppy & I scattered his ashes just where the Atlantic meets Narragansett Bay. As soon as he entered the water, he flowed around our legs and fish came to feed. It was a beautiful day that turned into dusk as Spirit Seeker flowed into the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
We lost Mari, a beautiful rabbit friend of Mud Puppys. She's buried in our garden.
Mud Puppy & I didn't get everything done this year that we had hoped...but right in front of us is another year. We have a new calendar and a new pen...we're makin' new plans!
This year is an election year. We're working on it...hopefully more people will get pissed off about stolen elections and stolen futures and start demanding paper ballots and public counting. Hopefully more Americans will choose to take our government back and stand with us.
We continue to stand on as many Saturdays as we can at the No Time To Be Silent Vigil. We hope more groups will start 'vigilatin'....if there are thousands and thousands of people all across this country standing at vigil every Saturday at noon....eventually the media might talk about the ten of us that gathered.
We're becoming more self sufficent. I don't have to have a chimney fall on me to know that global warming is real and dangerous.
Mud Puppy & I are starting self defense lessons this month. I believe that everyone should know how to defend themselves.
We've started a new list, frugalenvironmentalist@yahoogroups.com. Feel free to join.
On a very personal level, I'd like to thank all of you wonderful folks that support us. All of the people that share their lives with us are very dear to us. Well,that's it for now.
Oh yeah....if you do make resolutions...resolve to be the change you want to be, resolve to hold all of your representatives responsible, resolve to stand up for our kids, our future and our Constitution...oh and maybe pick up a few more t-shirts!
Happy 2006
We started 2005 quietly enough. We had generated enough money to survive the slow months of January & February. To tell the truth, March isn't all that great either. We had survived another New England winter of snow storms, blizzards, sleet, high winds and the occasional Nor'Easter. By April we had planned our powwow schedule and were enjoying Spring.
One Friday we came home from somewhere or other and as usual, we checked orders. Mud Puppy was at the computer. She said we had over 40 orders! That's alot of orders for less than two hours! The orders kept coming in....all weekend. It was Mud Puppy that noticed that most of the orders were for the same shirt, Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History. By Saturday, we had over 100 orders and I was beginning to think there had been a rally that no one told us about. On Monday morning we found out that the shirt had been mentioned on Oprah. Cool, very cool!
We learned much from that. We learned not to hire friends. We learned that some customers are down right rude and others are absolute sweethearts! There was Virginia who wanted her shirt exactly two days after she put in her order and felt justified in calling our toll free number and belittleing us to her hearts content. There was Karen who left a message on our voice mail. She wanted a shirt and could we please call her? However, she had no answering machine, no voice mail, no computer. We tried calling her a few times. One day she called us. She was upset because we hadn't returned her call. She asked many questions, most of which were somewhat intelligent. She wanted the shirt in a size we don't carry but can get. It was a very, very large size. I told her it would be a few weeks due to production schedules. She said fine. Then she called and called and called. Karen called almost daily....looking for her shirt. We finally returned her money order...and sent out a shirt. There was Mary who received two orders and returned the extra, insisting that it would be her pleasure and at her expense! There's Caroline in Alabama who is absolutely wonderful.
Every time she calls it's a pleasure. We met a couple of womans groups this year...that's always very cool! We love helping womans groups generate awareness and money.
In May, Mud Puppy & I won a beautiful drum made by Timothy Swallow...a gifted Lakota drum maker. That drum sits here in my room. I love it!
We changed screen printers twice. Working with the very large union shop didn't work for us. The shop was used to orders numbering in the thousands...we were just to small. We switched to a place I can walk to. It's a small shop, family owned & operated. We like it.
My daughter moved to California and moved back here. She and her family are trying to re-establish their lives here. It's hard because she gave away or sold everything she had to relocate. She then came back with nothing. I could have told her it wouldn't work..had she asked me. Not to many New England girls can live in the Southern Californian desert.
Mud Puppy is designing her own web site. Trashy Tee's will be up soon. She's very excited about it. I love the designs she's coming up with. They're so cool! They're young and colorful and yes...they have a touch of trash!
Our Christmas was quiet, as usual. We live a simple life. We enjoy our family and friends. We love our job. We love meeting folks from all over the world.
We've spoken to people in New Orleans, and stood with Cindy Sheehan. We've contributed money to grassroots environmental groups and pro women groups. We continue to protest the wars that this illegal administration wages...be it the war on women, freedom, our planet, our future, the Constitution, drugs, Iraq, prosperity or our children.
We've lost friends. Ben Spirit Seeker left us in August. I wasn't able to be with him as he passed. I did make sure that Mud Puppy & I scattered his ashes just where the Atlantic meets Narragansett Bay. As soon as he entered the water, he flowed around our legs and fish came to feed. It was a beautiful day that turned into dusk as Spirit Seeker flowed into the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
We lost Mari, a beautiful rabbit friend of Mud Puppys. She's buried in our garden.
Mud Puppy & I didn't get everything done this year that we had hoped...but right in front of us is another year. We have a new calendar and a new pen...we're makin' new plans!
This year is an election year. We're working on it...hopefully more people will get pissed off about stolen elections and stolen futures and start demanding paper ballots and public counting. Hopefully more Americans will choose to take our government back and stand with us.
We continue to stand on as many Saturdays as we can at the No Time To Be Silent Vigil. We hope more groups will start 'vigilatin'....if there are thousands and thousands of people all across this country standing at vigil every Saturday at noon....eventually the media might talk about the ten of us that gathered.
We're becoming more self sufficent. I don't have to have a chimney fall on me to know that global warming is real and dangerous.
Mud Puppy & I are starting self defense lessons this month. I believe that everyone should know how to defend themselves.
We've started a new list, frugalenvironmentalist@yahoogroups.com. Feel free to join.
On a very personal level, I'd like to thank all of you wonderful folks that support us. All of the people that share their lives with us are very dear to us. Well,that's it for now.
Oh yeah....if you do make resolutions...resolve to be the change you want to be, resolve to hold all of your representatives responsible, resolve to stand up for our kids, our future and our Constitution...oh and maybe pick up a few more t-shirts!
Happy 2006
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