In the last week we’ve gone from a spring-like weekend, to snow on Monday, to a spring-like day today.  Tomorrow will feel like summer, with temps in the high 80′s expected.  Will spend some time getting my gardens ready to plant my dahlias.

I spend my evenings sitting outside listening to the spring peepers – my favorite sound in the world.  I sit on our front porch trying to take it all in and keep it with me for the rest of the year.  We have a swamp across the road and a small pond in our front yard, so it can be pretty loud.  And soon the toads will start trilling.  Life is good.

In another week or so I’ll head out to the Hardware Show and try to find some new & exciting products to add to our catalog.  My husband Chuck will go with me, and we’ll spend a week after the show in southern Utah hiking and sightseeing in the Escalante area. 

Mother’s Day is fast approaching…May 10th is less than a month away!  While we’re happy to ship right down to the wire, we think it’s a great idea to get things ordered and shipped out ASAP so your customers have lots of choices that will please even the most persnickety Mom on their list. 

Folks always ask, so below you’ll find our list of ‘must haves’ for Moms…our most popular sellers, plus the things we would love to receive.  Wink wink, nudge nudge.

• TOOLS:  Joyce Chen Unlimited Scissors, Precision Pocket Secateur, Felco Pruners, Trake, Hori Hori, Radius Tools
• APPAREL:  Foxgloves, Atlas Nitrile Touch Gloves, Bib/Waist Apron, Cool Downz Neck Wraps
• GEAR:  Bug Off Oil, Garden Kneeler Seat, Garden Seat Bags, Gardener’s Color Wheel
• FLOWER ARRANGING: Pin Cups, Glass Flower Frog, Posy Pins, Floral Seven/Illusion
• INDOOR GARDENING: Stainless Steel Watering Can, Houseplant Snips
• ECO-FRIENDLY:Eco Spout, Twist N Spout, Soda Bottle Bird Feeder, EcoTowl

We’ve got them all in stock, ready to ship…and our minimum is only $50, which makes reordering SO easy! 

Yay, we’ve got Impress-O-Tags back in stock!

They just came in today…I love these things.  Perhaps because they’re shiny AND useful…no matter, it’s a great product we were very happy to have added and your customers will be happy if YOU add them to your line.

Ah, spring…I can’t WAIT to get out there and PLANT!

Best, Amy

Nope, I’m not talking about all of us here in the office, though it kinda applies…that of which I speak is the strangeness in the ‘cart’ portion of the website.  The gurus who own the cart have been upgrading features, which is nifty…but in the process, the code translated portions of text into some non-English characters that are odd and making reading a challenge.

Amy, do I really have to care about this?  Not at all.  I’m working to fix it on my own by manually editing stuff and have contacted said gurus about fixing it on a ‘global’ scale for me.  In the meantime, please pardon the awful way it looks and know that it still works just fine. 

There ARE 350+ items to fix, so it may take me longer than a day or two…apologies for that.  We’ll be sure to stock up on cookies and candy over the weekend so I have fuel.

Hope spring is treating you well…we’re in the middle of a raging thunderstorm here, but APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS after all, so lay it on me Mother Nature!