Like most of our city, we’ve made the painful decision to stay home amid the COVID-19 situation. Luckily, our main base of operations is our own house and our junior staffers were on spring break for the first week. The kids enjoyed their free time, caught up with their friends online & by phone, playing games and guitars, and watched more YouTube than their parents would probably want to calculate honestly. The adults spent most of that time trying to remain busy and calm, counting the days until the next farmer’s market and our children back to school. Dorothy finished getting the soap making and book keeping all moved into one room of the house (woohoo!) There was massive progress on getting garden boxes and beds prepared, weeded, and planted. Then week two kicked in and we faced the dilemmas of school closures, markets and events being canceled, and the general worries of being a parent and small business in this rapidly changing situation. It’s been stressful on our whole city and we wanted to let you know we’re still here, doing fine but just like most of you it’s a bit crazy.
We hope that you and yours are all doing well as you can in all of this. We’re working with our local markets, fellow vendors, wholesalers, private labelers, and charitable groups from a distance to help share information and updates with our cherished customers and followers until this has passed. There are no markets or events for the month of March, including Founders Day at Wunderlich; they have all been canceled as of March 19th. We’ve been advised that Schulenburg SausageFest, Mancuso’s GatorFest, and Chappell Hill’s Bluebonnet Festival are now canceled also. Fingers are crossed that all of these measures do the trick in ending this, everything will be normal again soon, just in time for spring crops and the farmer’s markets to reopen. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone again soon, happy and healthy. Please do keep reaching out to us for information as you need it. We’re monitoring our texts, emails, and voicemails to respond to everyone as quickly as possible. We’ll keep posting info as we get it here to the website and our Facebook page; plus more pictures from the scene here on the blog. We’ve also tried to ensure that the website inventory is up to date so your orders will be processed quickly and smoothly.
As you can see, our supervisory crew has approved of the new layout in the soap room and will ensure that we find time to relax a little when stress gets too high here. The kids are back in school and staying busy. We’ve used this time to reflect on how we’ve expanded our skills over the past year, enjoy the little moments, and finished getting our liquid soap making back on track. Dorothy will get posts made for you about when the liquid soaps will be live, how we’ve finally conquered bread making, learned cheese making and canning and blacksmithing, grew new produce, crafted a vendor group of talented local artisans and makers that are outstanding in their fields, and the personal goals we hit over the past year. Make sure to subscribe so you’ll get notified as the posts go live; some of the stories out of it all were honestly funny and a good read.
Stay safe and healthy everyone.
Happy Washing!
The TPC Team