Knitting in Winter Wonderland

Its a very snowy winter Sunday. I had a very busy day yesterday at the store. A group of 6 knitters came up from a knitting retreat camp weekend that they were attending about 25 miles south of Mercer. They came to visit my store as part of their weekend. It was fun to meet them and watch then enjoy seeing all the yarn and being at the store. They also bought a lot of the yarn I had on sale. I am clearing out my Rowan Felted tweed at $5.00 a ball and MarLa from Classic Elite at $6.50. They could not resist the sale. My total for the day was over $800. Who would believe that on a cold snow winter day this would happen. I needed this to make up for loosing two days $$ last week because of the snow. The shop was packed with knitters all afternoon. We had 6 regulars around the table for Sat. afternoon knitters support meet up from 2-4. The store filled up around noon and I did not clear everyone out till 5:00. I was supposed to close at 4:00.
Last week we had some really slow days. I did not even bother to go up town to open the store on Feb.14, Wed due to the snow and cold. I usually do really well with gifts on Valentines Day. Our schools and Courthouse was closed. I went up around 3:00 and stayed and unpacked yarn I took to the show in PGH. Thursday and Friday I continued to unpacked and rearranged the store. I moved yarn and shelves and free standing displays. The store looks so much better. I will post some pictures.
Their are several knitters that volunteer time to help me at the store. Some teach classes, some just hang out and help customers with their knitting, some watch the store when I cannot, one designs and changes my store front window displays, they unpack boxes and tidy up the store putting yarn back on the shelves after customers leave, they listen to my problems and help choose yarn. None of them want to buy the store but they all want to keep it going. They are part of a very loyal community that has grown around the store. Without their support I could not continue to run the store by myself. Just this week , Marlene showed up on Thursday with homemade lazania for me to take home for supper. Abigail came in on Friday to buy some yarn around 11:30 and stayed all day and helped unpack and move yarn. My customers are so good to me. I really do have a good life. I will post pictures of the store. It looks great. I have to go to the Penns Woods Craft Festival and help with the Chinese Auction this afternoon.