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I’ve been putting a lot of thought into the company, and her challenges, and I’ve come to a few realizations. I promise, it’s not all bleak! Tito and I have had this conversation before. That we’re behind. That we need to tweak things. Enough that we know it’s not just a matter of working harder,…
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I was noodling over what to write and realized that everything I had to say was a bummer. So you know what? To hell with that. Got the January Blues? I’ve got the cure :) And you don’t need to read my life story, or close a wack-a-mole’s worth of pop up ads to get…
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The best thing to come out of the pandemic was curbside pickup. S’true. This is the only civilized way to visit places like, say, an Ikea. Ikea is perhaps the 6th ring of hell, with its confuzzling labyrinth, angry, seemingly unattended children and dictatorial shopping experience. But I digress. When it comes to Costco, generally,…
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I’m not just a photographer as a hobbyist, I’m a legit, professional, award-winning, certified BIG DEAL. S’true. I had a job job before I left it all to chase string. I love my camera. I’ve photographed people, landscapes, aerials, potraits, weddings, and lots of yarn. I built The Blue Brick, in a way, to give…
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Tito and I have been married for 10 years! Years ago, long before we were married, we were watching the movie Paranormal Activity. In the horror movie trope, there’s always that one person that doesn’t believe the place is haunted. Tito turned to me and jokingly said “babe, if you ever tell me the place…
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If you’ve been following, well, anyone Canadian, you know that the tariffs have been a royal pain. A hamfisted implementation. A logistics nightmare. And thus, we have been under stress. Follow along, dear reader, as I explain my extremely responsible, adult, and valid coping mechanism with all the elegance and grace of which I’m capable.…
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I am looking to tweak some things about how the Blue Brick operates, to adjust for some really big, relatively recent challenges. Tito and I are mom’s main caregivers. This wasn’t a surprise, we planned for this time when we all moved in together last year, but her health has taken a downturn since the…
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If you’ve followed us for a long time, you know that Kim is a pretty special person to us. She owns a Highland cattle farm out in Niagara on the Lake. The cows are her pets, along (at that time) with the pig (Wilbur), the goat (Diesel), two miniature horses, a dog, a cat, and…
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UPDATE Here’s hoping the above update is correct ;) — And the hits keep rolling! In addition to the impact on our material costs and supply chains, the $800 USD minimum for tariffs is no longer valid. Well over half our business goes to the United States. We’ve spent years building a great community of…
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