Today we will start by saying thanks you to all our customer’s this past week. Trying to grow the business has all new challenges but were plugging away attempting to all get in sync. The silver suburban name the silver burb had the alternator freeze up leading to the belt also get smoked. Once we got everything done it was dark when we got her to shore. We also pulled the belt tensioner and top radiator hose. So, my mission was to track down the parts on saturday. Saturday evning while installing the alternator we fried out a connection that had to be troubleshot as we had no power going to the ignitions after a few hours we got her back running. We then fired up rusty trusty to go out and get the help ashley and justin house set up. I have always tried to not move houses in the dark, but this was good training for the kids. After I got the kids set up, I attempted to clean up our new road system. Only to have a wheel barring lock up on rusty trusty we got her home where Jonny boy tore into so Elvis could go find the parts yesterday. Jonny got her back together.
Running all these houses has the whole team hopping yesterday as we attempted to move, clean, reset 9 houses. all before 2 pm. With help from our friend Mike of ice castle outlaws jumped in to help Jonny boy with plowing new spots and getting all the skid houses moved. Dusty worked on all the wheelhouse while Justin and Ashley cleaned and helped set up the houses. We did have a couple no shows do to flu and weather, when someone cancels do the weather it drives me crazy what do you expect when you book an ice fishing adventure in Minnesota. Of course, the fishing shut down with slower fishing for most but that’s expected sometimes. The fishing did get better last night. I’ll be making rounds a bit later.
Running our own access this year has also given us new challenges, so far so good as it is a work in progress. Our road crosses hillmans road close to shore if you go out of our place, please respect buddy Hillmans Road and only use our landing for coming and going off the lake. We still will help buddy hillman if ever needed as that’s what neighbors do. help each other.
Meeting customers and checking them in has also became more of a challenge as my memory is just not like it used to be. Getting old sucks.
The god news as the convenient store will be reopening at some point this month under new ownership. The hammer plans on trying to work there again as she does miss seeing all the locals.
We have fishermen in quite a few of the houses so I’ll be making some rounds in a bit as half the team is again moving a couple houses this morning. Jonny boy is guiding a few customers in a snow bear today looking for the elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappie. They did find a school a couple days ago. Dusty also got out and found a few not sure if any were kept. Custom Chris found a big school, then said 3 portables moved in next to them. What I see is potential customers some have other opinions on a grand lake that owes us nothing.
Yesterday I think I had well over 60 phone calls which make things more challenging as ever. By the end of the day, I’m shot and it’s hard to get that second wind like I used to get back out in the evening to visit. The team has been doing a good job of checking on them also. Remember if you ever have a issue please call as a text does not alert me like a phone call.