Life has a way of throwing you curveballs when you least want/need them. Not nice, Life. Not nice at all. First, my last post was a year ago. How did a full year go by without me writing something? I don’t know. I can’t even come up with a real excuse. I’ve just been a bad, bad girl, I guess. So time to do some catching up.
Curveball #1: In my last post, I mentioned letting go of the shooting club’s website maintenance. Well, that didn’t last very long. A few months after transferring the maintenance to someone else, a succession of events put me back in charge and things got busy. A third website was created for the 1st Annual RoughRider Roundup match held by the Dakota RoughRiders Cowboy Action Shooters. As of the writing of this post, we are starting to update the site for this year’s match so there isn’t much to see at the moment. However, you could view last year’s pictures. Who knows, it might make you want to come and join us. If you have no idea what Cowboy Action Shooting is, you can learn more on the Dakota RoughRiders’ website, as well as on the website of the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS).
Curveball #2: My business still isn’t running. I have a small inventory ready, but I’m currently stopped because of a lack of funds. I was wondering whether to participate in fairs and/or open an online store. It became obvious pretty quickly that the fairs wouldn’t work. The cost of renting a booth is pretty high and would make it pretty hard, if not impossible, to turn in a profit. So I decided to go with an online website. Of course, I need a bank account so I can make transactions online. Well, there’s a minimum amount of money required to open a business account and I just don’t have it at the moment. I’ve been putting money aside for a while now, but it’s a slow process. When will my online store be open for business? At this point, I have no idea. I haven’t given up though. Slowly, but surely, I guess we’ll get there.
Otherwise, life has been treating our little family pretty well and that’s a good thing. 
Smokey
I still have a few details to take care of, but things are looking good so far. No, I’m not going to tell you what it’ll be about. Some of you know the orientation I was taking at one point in time. It’s close to that, but a little different. In any case, if you post a comment, please don’t say a word about it and let others be surprised ;)