The Dog Days of Summer
The challenges of high summer August is typically a sales challenge for us. Stu-Boy’s serves only beverages — no food. Our primary sales venue is events and festivals, which are also challenging in a different…
Ceiling Installation – Lateral Supports
The Challenges Another challenge in the ceiling saga is how to support the ceiling panels laterally. The trailer is nominally 8 feet wide. The plan is to rip the 4 x 8 sheets into panels…
Ceiling Installation – Panel Joinery
How to join panels? One of the challenges to putting up a multi-panel ceiling is our trailer is how to attach them to the 1-inch ribs forming the skeleton of the trailer. Originally, I was…
Mangled Jack Screws
The Distraction This is a “don’t forget your task list” post. About three weeks ago, Stu-Boy’s Lemonade Emporium set up for street vending (Normally, we don’t do so because we serve no food). Three hours…
No Ceiling Today
Nature decided we didn’t need to put in a ceiling today!
Store News
I almost forgot. Our on-line store is almost ready: Product is all entered in the database, the only other thing to do is figure out what to use for a reliable order notification app, although…
Ceiling Installation – Part Deux
We exchanged the FRP for plywood underlayment for the ceiling panels. Preliminary planning suggests we need four panels, one about 29 3/4″ from the back wall to the first rib, a 48″ panel, and two…
Up She Goes – Ceiling That Is
If you have ever visited Stu-Boy’s Lemonade Emporium’s trailer during one of our events, you likely would have noticed our ceiling is unfinished. Styrofoam insulation panels are wedged and taped to the ceiling framing creating…
Calming Down
The frenetic chaos of last week has calmed down. Now that I have reconciled myself to the realities of how this eCommerce approach will work, the angst over app incompatibilities is significantly decreased. I’ve reconciled…
The Event Challenge
In my previous posts I opined about the blog/eCommerce interface and said that was the primary consideration. In those posts I neglected one aspect: Events. I use this website to publish our upcoming events The…