From Vision to Reality
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The next morning - thanks to Andy - my coffee was ready at 5:30 when the alarm went off . I grabbed a cup and a sandwich and headed for the barn to feed the animals and do the chores before it got too warm. While breakfast was cooking I made a few calls on the cell I kept for emergencies. I left a message for Kevin and Amy to call me when they got a chance and returned a call from the manager of Alberton's Market over in Dover, Colorado, the closet large city to Oakgrove and about 200 miles up I 76 then I called the bank to talk to Sarah. My last call was to the vet's office to have someone come out and check on the mare. By the time Pete got here I had finished with the house work and was writing at the dining room table. "Yo, Ms. Jo you home?" I walked outside to greet one of my oldest and dearest friends as he walked up on the porch. ***** "So it's true Sunflower is back; don't you think we're all a little old to be taking our 'Hippie' lifestyles back up?" By the way how are the plans for the AUTUMN GATHERING and Sanctuary going?" Pete and I talked a few minutes then he went on out to the barn while I went back inside to check on the bread I had in the oven. By the time he finished up David was there. "And here I thought those cows and pigs she asked me to get and have butchered were for the Gathering - now I see she's just trying to keep you fed." "What can I say, I'm a growing boy" David answered putting down his fork long enough to shake Pete's hand. "I called Meg and told her you were staying for lunch Pete." I said, putting a plate in front of him. After lunch David walked out to the truck with Pete while I cleaned off the table and put the food away. "Mr Banks said he'd drop by on Monday but if anything happens before then to call him on his private cell - here's the number. He also says to tell you 'even if you've decided to become Momma Sunflower again he refuses to be called Chicken Man'." "Got any of that cake from yesterday left?" "Are all 'Men of The Cloth' as Immature, Gluttonous, and Evil Hearted as you?" I jokingly asked putting the cake down in front of him and handing him a clean fork and plate. ***** We discussed what he had gotten done that morning and he handed me the receipts along with four temporary debit cards and the envelope he had stopped by the bank to pick up before going by the Post Office to pick up my mail and the packages that were waiting there. "I met with Ms Corbin at the Thrift Store like you asked and it's true, she is planning to sell out and move back East to be closer to her family. She had planned to put an ad in next week's paper announcing a 'Going Out of Business Sale' with 1/2 price off everything and offered to sell us the entire inventory including the pieces she has on consignment and in her apartment for $5000 which she said would cover what she needs to pay and has tied up in the business if you would agree to let her out of the lease without any penalties. I gave her a check for $6750 like you said - 25% above what she asked and $500 to have it delivered and unloaded. She'll take care of everything and call one of us with the details later in the week." When he got ready to leave I handed him a basket with a pie and the leftovers from lunch in it. "Just make sure you bring my basket back or you won't get anymore." I said sending him out the door. ***** Once the house was quiet I opened the ledger book I had bought in town the week before and picked up the receipts that were lying in front of me. On the first page I wrote;
SANCTUARY (NON PROFIT)
- FOUNDED May 1, 2013
-INCORPORATED July 6, 2015
The second page was labled Expenses:. By the time I'd finished entering all the receipts and tallying them; the total was already over $15000. I laid everything aside to make copies and enter in the computer later and began transcribing the notes from yesterday's meeting with the attorney and the discussions afterwards. In the middle of this the phone rang - the power was back up. "Mom, it's Amy. Kevin's at the Hospital tonight but he told me to keep trying to call you back. What's up?"
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