Hula Hula

Well the other half of the tree finally fell. This time on our neighbors car, but once again no damage! Pretty crazy. Yesterday I went downtown and stumbled across what must have been a hula hoop festival. In the same park where they have the drum circle every Friday, the place was packed with people young and old hula hooping. We were picking up supplies for my roommates birthday party. In addition to grilling and a bonfire, there was also live music. One of my roommate's friends explained the Mayan calendar to me and it turns out I am a Yellow Magnetic Warrior (look it up to learn more).

Work is still going well. I am doing some more complicated work involving updating our website. I've been using a lot of photoshop to get higher resolution images on our site. Our social media is growing slowly but surely. If you have a twitter profile you should follow us or like us on facebook! On Friday we are getting a huge shipment of a lot of products that have been on back order for some time now. It will be nice to have all those orders finally processed and hopefully the phones will stop ringing off the hook.

Bruce and Leroy

This past week has been a lot of fun and very interesting to say the least. If you've been following my blog then you should already know that a tree fell on our house last week. Well we called the city, the power company, and everyone else we could think of to get this tree off our roof and the power lines. No one seemed to care that a tree was hanging on our powerlines, except......Bruce. Bruce is a young man that apparently rides around town on his bicycle with a chain saw on his back. As we were sitting on our front porch admiring half the view we once had, Bruce strolled up and asked if we wanted him to cut down the tree for us. I guess some things in life are free because Bruce didn't ask for a penny.

On Wednesday, we went to a Wiz Khalifa concert, went to a Thirsty Thursday baseball game (the Tourists won), Downtown After 5 was Friday, I played golf at Biltmore Forests on Saturday, and Sunday we went to another baseball game and then to the pool.

As for Leroy, his story is almost as crazy as Bruce's. Leroy is a small, colorful Beagle mix that followed some of my roommates home one night. They thought it would be a good idea to bring him inside and give him some sandwich meat (I think it was my ham). Ever since then, Leroy (he also goes by Toby, Schnappsie, and simply Dog) has been hanging out, eating, and sleeping in our house. Luckily, he is very well trained and behaves himself nicely, however his excessive scratching worries me that he has fleas (my sister can testify as to how annoying that can be). If no one answers our Craig's list or newspaper ad we will very likely be taking care of him until the end of the summer.

Work has been steadily picking up. I have the added responsibility of photoshopping old pictures and editing product information on our new website. Although it has been somewhat stressful because we are out of stock of a lot of our products.

Updates about Bruce, Leroy, and of course my internship will be posted shortly.

Tiiimmmmmmbbeerrrrrrrrr!

A tree just fell on my house. I haven't seen the damage first hand but I imagine a tree on the house can't be good.

Same ol' same ol'

Working from 8-5 everyday has begun taking a toll on me. I don't know how you adults do it. I'm still tweeking my wikipedia pages and still broadcasting our products on the web through social media. I'm sure by the end of the week they'll have me working on something new.

This weekend was a lot of fun. Some friends from wake paid me a visit on their way to Charlotte for a concert. Yesterday we spent the afternoon at a little waterfall about 15 minutes from our house. We had to hike through a few thorns but it was well worth it. We jumped off rocks from 15-25 feet into some pretty "refreshing" water. There was a little nook between the rocks and the waterfall that left about 2 inches of space between your face and the rushing water, pretty awesome. There was also a natural water slide. This crazy guy showed up and did backflips off the rocks, and then climbed to the top of this rock, and jumped over a fallen tree from about 50 feet up. After he jumped he told us about how his brother hit his head on a rock inducing a seizure from the same jump. Smart fellow.

Great Success

Well I finally finished the Wikipedia article. You can check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_Bicycles. It still needs some minor adjustments, but it's a good start. I'm still in a battle with some Wikipedia geek that wants to take it down cause he thinks it's advertising. We just started a Twitter page as well (http://twitter.com/LakelandGear), which has grown exponentially from 1 follower to 9 followers in just one day! I'm hoping for double digits by the end of the week. We also have a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/LakelandGear/106564942722521?v=photos#!/pages/LakelandGear/106564942722521?v=wall). It is really interesting to see how your audience grows by connecting with other people.

I am also trying to come up with a catchy slogan for Lakeland Gear. Here are some of my favorites (keep in mind I'm trying to reach out to the family camping people):

Connect. Explore. Camp.

If Lewis and Clark had Lakeland, they wouldn't have needed Sacajawea.

Good, better, best...Lakeland.

Camp luxuriously.

No trail is off limits.

If luxury and rugged had a baby, we'd be it.

PackRight. CampRight. Live Right.

Live life the lakeland way.

Geared for adventure.

If you have any favorites or ideas let me know.

I've come to the conclusion that Asheville citizens love Honda Elements more than hybrid cars. Everywhere I look there is a box car. I also started using an organic mechanical pencil at work, so I'm getting greener and greener everyday. The pencil is 76% recycled material, and it's actually green in color too. What will they think of next...