Well – not exactly marching. Sitting, is more like it.
I’m here at the shop just recharging my batteries. Nah – not a figure of speech. The battery on the camera croaked and the cordless power drill has turned its last screw.
For now. The batteries are out and plugged into the outlets.
Oh, I guess I am doing a little recharging of my own. A little bit of NCAA madness on the television in between scaling the too-tall ladder to change out light bulbs and moving stacks of books.
A busy week is behind us. No complaints about the catering job that wound up at the end of one of our busier weeks, but it feels good to be working on side projects and meant-to-do-that-earlier-jobs.
Dustin spent the early part of his birthday prepping box lunches for a Broken Arrow History Museum bus tour. That was in addition to the daily prep getting ready for the Saturday lunch service. Lots of bread and boxes later, the catering job was sent on its way. It reminded me of all the sandwiches I helped make back in high school as a young employee at Allen’s IGA in McAlester.
As it turned out, Mr. Allen’s store was the closest to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, and when prisoners staged a massive riot back in the early 1970s, we were recruited into service preparing sack lunches for all the Highway Patrol Troopers, corrections officials, and who-knows-who-else. We made cold-cut sandwiches for days.
They were nothing like the meals we worked on Saturday morning. Back then, it was mostly slap a slice of bologna between slices of white bread with a squirt of mustard. No fresh-cooked bacon or provolone cheese. Certainly no fresh-baked cookies to go along with.
We’ll be serving it again Monday, but there is enough sunshine today for a quick Rose District update.
We’re still flying the St. Patrick’s Day flags on the awning outside – not so much for the sake of celebrating, but mainly for lack of time to get the ladder outside and take them down. A little shamrock fringe never hurt anyone, anyway.
I’m hoping we won’t be hurt by the upcoming construction project across the street. First National Bank has announced a remodeling project that got a little press in the Tulsa World this past week. I noticed the advisory sign on the front of the bank earlier in the week.
The artist’s rendition (click on the image for a larger view) shows an attractive new front that will fit nicely in the Rose District architectural scheme. I just worry about another squeeze on the available parking. They are coping down the street (where a large crane is currently parked sideways across any number of parking spots), so I guess we’ll have to just grin and bear it.
We survived having the sidewalk in front of the store ripped out and replaced. We managed through the orange fencing and the similarly-colored barrels. Even the closed street sections for utilities renovation. We’ll manage through whatever they throw our way, and look forward to having a beautiful new bank building to look out at from our front windows.
We’ll provide safe haven from any hardhat zone, so…
Come visit!
McHuston
Booksellers and Irish Bistro
Rose District
122 South Main St. Broken Arrow OK!