It has been quite a while since I have made an entry, but the fall season is busy and the time to start traveling to restock the store comes at the same time…
The first three weekends in October are extraordinarily busy every year, and the attraction is easy to understand. In the last week, the colors have exploded. We enjoyed an extended summer through most of September, but once the weather turned to fall, the leaves responded on cue. Hundreds of shades of yellow, orange, and red now color the peninsula, and the cool weather has brought out the scarves and stocking caps, as well as the hot cider. It is a nice time of the year to be here, and the presence of the crowds reflect that fact.
The winter-long process of filling the shelves back up with books begins for me in October every year as well. These are the first weeks of the year that I am able to break away from the store to attend auctions and sales and to otherwise travel for inventory. Not even halfway through the month, and already my truck has twice been filled with new stock. There are also short trips planned for each of the following three weeks. By the time May arrives, I will have packed the store full, plus built up a back-stock to feather in throughout the season. Like every previous year, I should also manage to build some more shelving units before the the next season arrives. Every year it becomes a bit more tricky to find more space to put things, but there is still room for more. Always more.
So here we are, in the midst of the last few busy weeks of this year’s season, and planning for the one to come. October at the bookstore…
