Yesterday (28 November), after a nice
Thanksgiving holiday two days before, I mostly hung out at home. That
afternoon, I received in my mail a large envelope from my IPMS/Gateway (IPMS
Gateway Chapter (google.com)) colleague Rick Keasey It had some club flyers
Keasey designed and printed off for me. (He finalized the flyer design after
the IPMS/Gateway business meeting this past Tuesday night.)
I took these flyers,
along with some flyers advertising the 2021 IPMS/USA National Convention (2021
IPMS USA NATIONAL CONVENTION (natslv2021.com)) in Las Vegas, to four St.
Louis area hobby shops. In order of my visit, these shops are: Checkered Flag
Hobby Country (Checkered
Flag Hobby Country) in Mehlville; Schaefer's Hobby Shop (Schaefer's
Hobby Shop - Arts, Crafts, Beads, & R/C | Schaefers (schaeferhobby.com))
in Sappington; North Central Hobbies (North
Central Hobby (nchobby.net)) in Overland; and, Mark Twain Hobby Center (Mark
Twain Hobby Center (hobby1.com)) in St. Charles.
At each stop, I also made a small
purchase--usually of model paint or a paint brush--to support these shops on
Small Business Saturday. Also, making these purchases makes it easier to get
the stores' cooperation in displaying our flyers for their customers to look at
and hopefully pick up. I and IPMS/Gateway's e-board felt it was important that
we get these flyers out to the shops with the start of the Holiday shopping
season. Of course, it will be seen how much foot traffic is in these shops with
the pandemic restrictions in place for the time being.
IPMS/Gateway's meeting
scheduled for 17 November was cancelled, when Affton Elks Lodge 2635 (Elks.org
:: Lodge #2635 Home) closed the hall to us due to these restrictions.
Hopefully, the restrictions will be eased in time for our scheduled meeting on
15 December.
Today, after lunch, I helped my
mother to decorate the Christmas tree in our living room. (The tree was put up
on Thanksgiving.) We installed a strand of lights around the tree, then hung up
ornaments from our collection. Mom and I also put up a Nativity scene and
some other Christmas decorations in our house.
Back to work tomorrow morning.
Later.
