I always feel a sigh of relief when the holiday season wraps up. I hate the kids going back to school, but there is a definite release of pressure and the calm new year to make friends with.
This is an especially exciting January. This year we are entrusting real walls with our food dream and creating a restaurant that will hopefully house customers all year at a semi continues rate. Food trucks are lovely, but winter and summer both hold their challenges from frozen pipes (and frozen customers—almost no customers) to hotbox days where you open the freezer just to cool your face down as you stand wondering what the F#%^*CK you were ever thinking. Nobody comes out for food when it’s a hundred degrees, so you just open to open and watch an empty concrete lot simmer in the sunshine. Yes, four walls, a ceiling, a floor and some good old-fashion tables accompanied by full backed chairs will surely go a long way.
Our house has made some exciting steps forward too, and our giant children are continuing to be more and more giant. I have written myself a list—still to be completed— of what I need to do this month:
Foodtruck:
- Clean Floors
- Empty and clean fridges
- Empty of all equipment
- Power-wash back
- Take down signs
- Light sand outside?
- Scrub walls
- Scrub steam table
- Clean shed
- Move fridges
- List truck for sale
Restaurant:
- Paint
- Wainscot
- Sand tables
- Assemble tables
- Steam clean chairs
- Purchase dishes/cups/bowls/silverware
- Figure out bar top
- Make wood signs
- Complete menu
- Make official ordering and shopping lists for each vendor
- Choose and hang artwork/decorate restaurant space
- Make bathrooms wonderful/paint and decorate
House:
- Trim door to basement
- Install wood floor from kitchen to hall
- Cap floor to dining room
- Paint kitchen walls
- Paint kitchen cabinets
- Sand and paint bath tub
- Organize sewing room
- Hang kitchen doors
- Hang bamboo on driveway gate
- Dog door???
I also hope to get a little time to relax and recoup. I got some big paper, pastels and charcoal out. I figure maybe I’ll play a bit and see where that goes. I haven’t used charcoal or pastels in a long time. In fact, I’ve been feeling artistically rusty lately. Not sure whether it’s just been a while, or if I am now past the age of being in tune and my personal flow of creativey has gone away. But that’s a post for another time. . .
Happy January Everyone!
A gift made my my dear friend Robin.
Cheers ~
Marica
