Wednesday, April 7, 2010

spring excitement in Bayfield

How life changes while you are gone! There is a buzz in town about all the new things going on this season. New shops, coffee shop expanding, babies on the way, fresh faces in town, new controversies. It seems like when we left three weeks ago, a season was at its end. Now a new one has began.

And our thoughts turn to boats. We have been talking a lot lately about how kayaking has taken off in popularity, which is really cool. We just spent a fair amount of time on the kayak in Florida and while it it great, I kept thinking I would rather be on a sailboat! In a future blog, I want to get into why sailing is not increasing in popularity as fast as it should. Maybe readers can share their opionions.

Usually boating is all I think about this time of year. This year, we have a new shop to finish and move into. This will be our fourth season of having an office in Bayfield. Last year, we were on Rittenhouse Ave (the main street), but the building sold. This year, we are creating a new space just around the corner on First Street, across the street from the Bayfield Inn. It is going to be our sailing/dogsledding office as well as a retail outlet for the Wolfsong Wear that we make here in Bayfield. Last season was our first year as a retail store and we sold a ton of Wolfsong Wear. This year we are talking about what other products might compliment our business if we wanted to increase our retail sales.

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