Five things about our first six weeks

Spoiler: I just love having a store

When I posted my last update, we had been open just five days. In that post, I called it a “soft open”, because Haritha spent the bulk of that first week working with Canada Post to digitize over 30 years of post office box information (while occasionally sneaking away to make someone a tea or a coffee).

In the time since then, the shelves have filled up quite a bit — first the gifts and then the groceries — and we’re starting to get our feet under us.

Taking inspiration again from

Summer Brennan

’s writing practice of The Five Things Essay, I wanted to take a moment to share five things about what it’s been like!

1. I love working in our shop
More than anything, the takeaway is that I completely love having a store. It’s like, beyond my wildest dreams.

A few weeks after we opened, poor Haritha got a brutal chest cold and there were a couple of days he just couldn’t get out of bed. For those days, I ran the things more or less by myself, messaging him on our walkie-talkies when I was out of my depth.

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