Yes, it’s finally going to happen. We’ll be opening our doors – very soon now. No fanfare. No ribbon cutting. No airplane smoke-writing in the sky. No paparazzi. No videos on Youtube. No publicity, except my words on this blog. And, despite pleas from our children, no giant inflatable gorilla or rainbow colored balloon festooned with a “grand opening banner”. We’ll be doing all the fun and fluffy stuff in mid- to late-September, after we’ve ironed out any operational issues and when the weather is rather more forgiving, which for me is below 85-90?F!

We’ve been working around the clock recently on a myriad of different items: exterior sign up, computer hardware installed, Vonage service up an running, wireless configured, printer connected, document filing installed, fixtures for point-of-sale hardware set-up, small refrigerator delivered, storage for small supplies put together, bathroom supplies cabinet constructed. My thanks to IKEA for providing many of these well-designed components and fixtures at very affordable prices.

Tomorrow, it’s time to install our track and cable system for hanging our 2D art. This will save our walls from incurring trauma whenever we have to display or move paintings and it should save us time. Then, the rest of our fixtures arrive, hopefully, by Friday.

And, while all this goes on around us, and consumes us, we are continuing to accept and pickup art from our artists – 10 or so this week. Our space is actually starting to look like an art gallery! We’re worn out, but this is so cool!