04 Sep 2003
Fleecing

Still selling fleece! Four more today, and we're better than halfway thru our stock! And to think that this was just destined to be wasted - burned, composted, whatever.

I heard back from a buyer in FL - she got her parcel today, and was washing. She commented on how white the white turned out - it does clean up nice! And her only real negative comment was on the "plain onld dirt) - not "dingleberries" or even VM (vegetable matter - straw, hay, grass, etc.). Just dirt.

She also commented on how the fleece smelled - "alot different than my apartment smell!". I'll bet she's right, too! It smells like it just came from a barnyard, because, well, it did!

This is the first time in over 25 years that I've been selling a "real" product - not just some bastard form of "intellectual property" or consulting services. And it feels really good, too. There's an objective quality to selling a real thing - it's obviously either as advertised or not, there's no real subjective judgement involved.

The farm broke even for August - first month it's not run in the red since we started operations in the spring. And that feels pretty good, too.

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