We got back from Evans Amercia’s cup competition on Sunday and then Thursday at 7:30 pm I hopped on a flight back to Phoenix. Justin likes to do some of his business by Trade. He figures that he can get more stuff for less than if he worked those same hours for money.
I have eighteen tons of wood pellets sitting in a warehouse in Phoenix that I need to get rid of and one day Justin suggested that I list them on iTrade. Within a week after listing them, a restaurant in Phoenix bought 100 bags of them. That is $2,000 of trade dollars and while it isn’t the same as real money because you are limited in what you can buy, it is less inventory that I’m carrying and what was once a liability is now an asset.
November 22 was an iTrade show where iTrade members can buy a table and sell their stuff. Justin has done this for the last couple of years and offered me his table for this year. Friday Kira helped me load up their truck and we set up our table and then Friday evening they had free food while vendors had a chance to look at the other vendors and get first dibs on sales.
On Saturday the show was open to the public (well not to the public but to all iTrade users) and I showed up early. Justin had friends in town and we both agreed that I didn’t need him and Kira had to deal with children so I was at the show from 7:00 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon.
I was hoping to sell more, but I did sell everything you see in the picture which is 105 bags of pellets. At $20 a bag that is $2,200 so it was certainly worth the trip. I had more bags in the truck which I then had to take back to the storage unit.
Kira and I both clearly remember her giving me the keys to the storage unit, but when I arrived at the unit I couldn’t find the keys. They were in Kira’s purse so after helping me load the truck she now had to help me unload the truck. We figure that between the two of us, we moved 340 bags of pellets for a total of 6,800 pounds.
Kira is both the music director and chorister for her ward right now and she has a small and struggling choir. Since I was in town that weekend, and the choir was performing, she recruited me to sing in the choir. In the practice there was me and one other man but for the performance she had Justin and Evan as well, plus some more men showed up and she had a full choir. I think we sounded great.
Immediately after sacrament meeting we loaded everyone into two cars and headed to Peoria to visit Landon. It was the first time Kira and Justin have seen him since August. Everyone, including Landon, seemed very happy to see each other. We were allowed two hours for our visit so we headed to a restaurant, had a nice brunch and then headed back to Chandler. Kira dropped everyone off at the house and then she headed to her choir practice. I packed up my stuff and then Justin took me to the airport. It was a quick but productive and wonderful weekend.
November 22 was an iTrade show where iTrade members can buy a table and sell their stuff. Justin has done this for the last couple of years and offered me his table for this year. Friday Kira helped me load up their truck and we set up our table and then Friday evening they had free food while vendors had a chance to look at the other vendors and get first dibs on sales.
I was hoping to sell more, but I did sell everything you see in the picture which is 105 bags of pellets. At $20 a bag that is $2,200 so it was certainly worth the trip. I had more bags in the truck which I then had to take back to the storage unit.
Kira is both the music director and chorister for her ward right now and she has a small and struggling choir. Since I was in town that weekend, and the choir was performing, she recruited me to sing in the choir. In the practice there was me and one other man but for the performance she had Justin and Evan as well, plus some more men showed up and she had a full choir. I think we sounded great.
Immediately after sacrament meeting we loaded everyone into two cars and headed to Peoria to visit Landon. It was the first time Kira and Justin have seen him since August. Everyone, including Landon, seemed very happy to see each other. We were allowed two hours for our visit so we headed to a restaurant, had a nice brunch and then headed back to Chandler. Kira dropped everyone off at the house and then she headed to her choir practice. I packed up my stuff and then Justin took me to the airport. It was a quick but productive and wonderful weekend.
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In the 19th Century people had no idea where the birds went for the winter. Very few people even considered the idea that maybe they flew to Africa, and those who did believe that were scoffed. That is until a Stork landed in Europe with an African spear in its neck.
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