FIRST FULL WEEK AT THE STORE AND MORE WILDLIFE

The picture of the two elk was taken on one of our days off earlier this week.  No antlers on the elk right now, as they have shed last year's antlers and are growing new ones.  This weekend, the Jackson Boy Scouts held an elk antler auction, where the public may purchase antlers that have been shed in the winter elk reserve in Jackson.  We have been told that people come from all over the world to purchase these antlers to use for "art projects".  Now that is a unique fund raiser that you won't find everywhere.

We survived the first week of being in the retail business.  Lots of  boxes still to unpack - we have thousands and thousands of T-shirts in stock.  It is hard to believe, but we have been assured that, by the end of the summer, that stock will be gone.

Our recent weather has been overcast sky with light rain and temps in the low 50's.  Business was somewhat slow this week, as the current weather is not conducive to hikes in the sunshine.  One observation is that there are quite a few visitors from other countries, both in Europe and elsewhere including India and Canada.

Earlier this week the smoothie machine was installed in the store.  We offer blueberry and strawberry colada smoothies.  In three days we have sold a grand total of 1 smoothie (blueberry).  Remember, the high temperature has been in the 50's.  Coffee and hot chocolate sales have been brisk, especially considering we are still in the slow season.

Hot dogs are one of our lunchtime offerings.   We have one of those machines with the rollers so the hot dogs cook nice and slow.  Some days, we have less demand than anticipated,. and we have some hot dogs left near the end of the day.  Rather than throw them out,  we offer late afternoon discount deals.  Yesterday, our deal was 3 dogs for $1.  Today, we gave the last one to a man walking a dog while his wife was shopping in the store.  Once the store gets busy, we will be selling around 75 hot dogs daily.