 So, we drained it last week, so that Terracare cleaned it up this week, and let it start to drop, because between the stone and the concrete, it needs to dry thoroughly before we cover it for the winter, and Tate is going to be here today to clean it. The 2022 annual order was pretty much done. We didn't submit it to parks primarily because they don't have any place to order it yet. They were working with, I think, Gully, and like a lot of the big greenhouses, they're getting rid of their little customers, and trying to concentrate on their big orders, and this is kind of a theme that's been happening now for a couple of years. Grown told me about it last year and the year before, and they were having trouble getting flowers because their orders were too small. Now, it's hit the city of Longmont and parks, so we don't really have anywhere at the moment to order them to be pre-grown. So, they're looking to see if they can find somebody, and if not, she doesn't really need the order till the spring, so we're just kind of sitting on it. It's pretty much done, just waiting for her to have a solution. I did put in a few new perennials in the garden. I noticed that there were some kind of empty spots along the driveway as we got into the August, September timeframe, and we were also, we're still having trouble with the roses on 3rd Avenue because of the water. So, we replaced 4th Roses on 3rd Avenue that were just never pried, and we're going to fix the water problem, and we put in three new hydrangeas and a deep purple butterfly bush into those holes along the east side of the driveway that just didn't have anything in them to fall. So, quick first. Water problem. What kind of water problem? We're having some issues with irrigation. It's an ongoing thing. We have an old sprinkler system, and every year there's something new. Probably at some point we need to do, parks needs to do a capital project to actually come in here and completely redo it, but I don't think that's going to happen until we're in crisis mode. So, we're just limping along. We get in and there's issues between parks and the vendor about how it gets fixed and when it gets fixed and who's going to do it. I think in the spring I'm actually going to have Anna do some work on the roads bed, at least the part that's really having a problem. We're going to try and pull the pop-up heads and just put in drip. So, we'll see if we can manage that. If we can't, I might actually just hire a vendor to come take care of it, because I'm really tired of being the punching bag in the middle of the parks' tariff care. Yeah, you don't need that. Yeah. Well, and we just need to fix it. And, you know, parks' concern is money, of course, and tariff care's concern is like trying to do what they do. And Sam made a decision early in the year to just fix things instead of asking permission because she didn't want the flowers to all die, and now they're fighting over the bills. So, it's okay. We are continuing to replace our incandescent light bulbs with LEDs to save energy, but the other benefit to that is they don't pull as much energy. So, on our old wiring, our circuits and stuff aren't getting as hot, and we're not blowing circuits like we used to. So, all of the bulbs in this room have been replaced. Now we're working on the overhead lights in the offices and on the porch, and eventually we're going to have to buy to pull it on the dining room. But we haven't done that yet because it's going to be a $500 adventure at least, and the clear light bulbs still don't have the same quality of light that you can get from the incandescents. They're getting better. They're getting better. So, I noticed the overheads are much better this time. So, maybe next year we can like replace all the ones in the dining room with LEDs. And then for October, I'm regarding a rehearsal on a wedding, and I'm so glad that was over. It was one of those ever-moving targets. And then the rest of the month is close. I just wanted to reiterate that we had a great year, especially if you consider the short timeframe that we did all the events in. Typically we do events all through the year, and obviously we have slower months where we don't do as many. But these events and the time between when we executed one and the next one were very tight. And the other thing you have to realize is that all of the planning fell in that same time frame with only a few exceptions. So, we literally did things in weeks that we usually do in months or years. So, it's been pretty crazy. I looked at the revenues. As of now, we've had almost $52,000 in the revenue for 2021, and that is almost back to what we've looked at in 2019. And I think we're within $2,000 because the 2019 number has clubs in it. It has club dues, and of course we didn't have any club dues this year. So, we're within a couple thousand dollars of being what we've looked for in 2019. On a financial budget consideration, I did do an appropriation for the next cycle. Since we were very conservative in our estimates of what we were going to bring in in revenue and also spend, we're running a little short. So, I did an appropriation out of the fund, which of course we'll put right back at the end of the year. But I have to do that because I can't spend money that I haven't appropriated. So, and that will be in the next cycle. We have a candidate cancellations. We had three drop-offs, four drop-offs booked, and the ceremonies and a luncheon here. Those were all revenue generating events. That's an opportunity to bring stuff for events. Alcohol, food, clothing, guest books, that kind of stuff. So, sometimes they do a drop-off, sometimes they do a drop-off and a rehearsal. It just depends, but we do charge for them. So, they're revenue events. And usually on smaller events, like the memorials and stuff, they don't get booked into a cluster to the event. When we book a wedding, we book the rehearsal at the same time. But when we do a smaller event, sometimes we do a drop-off and sometimes we don't. What's the average price for a no-call? You know, for a wedding, it's $200 because we booked two hours. For the smaller events, it's usually about $100. And I usually book more time than they actually need because they're intrinsically bad about showing up on time with everything they need. So, they come back. They don't show up. Joan Wargo was on Pacific time and she was an hour and 15 minutes late. So, I charged her two hours because I had somebody sit in here. It wasn't 10, and that was that. So, I charged her two hours because, you know, somebody would sit here just for her. So, we charged her $50 an hour. If it's just a little bit of stuff, especially with memorials, I do a half hour, which is $50. It just depends. We charge because otherwise people would probably not show up until hours later and we'd be sitting here waiting for them. Right. I did order new business cards with the new City of Longmont logo. I did get an estimate for reprinting the history brochure from Minuteman, but I think I need to go get a couple more. I need to get the printer information for me that you guys are using. He used it in the last time. Oh, did you? Yeah, we'll go over here. Okay, perfect. Good to know. I think there's a couple other City contracts. So, I may just get a couple other bids to make sure we're not spending too much. And then we also renewed the contract for advertising and the not in the wet and wire for 12 months. Although the way they're doing it now, you can back out at any time. So, it's good to know. They started doing auto renewal, but I circled with them because of the prices, of course, but not just a little bit. But now we have the option of stopping at any time we want to. As you can see on the expense revenue and expense actual sheet, it pretty much looks like we're about $15,000 or $16,000 to the good at the moment. News hasn't completely caught up with that, but my numbers are pretty solid. I expect, I honestly expect October, November, December to be very quiet. With people back inside and mass and COVID, I'm kind of thinking we're going to be quiet around here for the next quarter. I changed the event breakdown a little bit, which is the next sheet. So, you can actually see the September numbers. So, I just thought it might print out that way and I'm like, oh, that's kind of interesting. Maybe they'd like to know that. It is interesting. So, I will start printing it that way. It's an enormous spreadsheet because I do every month separately. But it is kind of interesting to see what the actual physical breakdown on a monthly basis is. And on the bottom you can see our walk has broken out on its own. The next sheet is the event actual. This is the 31 things we did during the month. It was pretty crazy, like I said. It gives you a pretty good idea of what's going on. And a lot of memorials. And then when you take a look at the expenses, of course, we can do a lot of events. We have lots of expenses. One thing I did start doing for the memorials that I hadn't done in the past is we started doing centerpieces. And we split this from King's Superst as a great job. They cost us about $10 a piece. And I charged $20, so it's just another role to change. Maybe they'll get a little more expensive when we get a feel. But interestingly enough, everybody who had a memorial, at least the bigger one, especially with a recent death, was very interested in doing them as opposed to trying to take care of it themselves. So it's just another way I can help. And it's another way that we can make a memorial, right? Oh, I would love a lot of space in jars. I can't even find them right now, but I want the little ones, because we don't want to set the line to do big ones. And they have to be basic? No. Actually, the first time I did it, King's Superst gave me the jars. She told me she threw them some way out of the time, but she doesn't usually keep them because she doesn't have enough storage. So she said she would start trying to keep them until she ran out of room. But the second time I did it, we could use all the jars first time. And honestly, I couldn't find jars in here. Don't look for jars in August or September. There's a lot of shortage after they were used. Well, you know where I found them? I found them at Michael's for $2.50 a piece. Fortunately, I had four or five already, and I only had to buy like five of them. Aces didn't have any? Aces didn't have any? Turbids didn't have any? Cans didn't have any? Michael's only had individuals? Cobby Lobby only had individuals? King's Superst didn't have any? Safeway didn't have any? Walmart didn't have any? I forgot the colors. Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I mean, this is one that came up one week and we did it the next week. Exactly. I think so. I think so. Okay, the flowers stand out the best. And she did a beautiful job. I mean, I just, I looked at her bouquets and I said, use that one. You know, we paid her two bouquets and she charged me a little bit to arrange them and, you know, $10 a piece and they were gorgeous. Do they have to see if your clients asked if they could take it home? Oh, they did. That's why we didn't have jars for the second one. And I understand. Yeah. I guess they opened my crawl full. Well, they, I mean, they could take them home. So if they want to take them home, they can take them. Absolutely. Yeah. But I think all of them. In 200 minutes of Memorial Day. Oh, no, you can't take those. Right. Exactly. They were there. Sure. No. No. No. Well, and on one of them, they took a few. On the second one, they took them all. You know, but I mean, you took, you took home flowers and you took home flowers. Oh, I can't look the call hole. Otherwise I'd be under their party. I like it. Oh, so you have to. It's all carbonated. Obviously. Yeah. We had a friend to do it. To open up the hole. And I've had a neighbor would have opened up the hole. And I'd like to buy. And then here I was in the back. I'm just like, oh, I can't look the call hole. Otherwise I'd be under their party. Oh, so you have to. It's all carbonated. It's all carbonated. Obviously. We had a friend to do it. I was in the back. I'm just sorting all this stuff. And I'm like, what if I get out of here? Because everything was just. I'm like, I need to take my phone with me. Yeah. That's a good plan. Well, I call one of us and say, hey, I'm going to look at the problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got a few listed on Craigslist, some poor startup catering company with buying from you. Yeah. Oh, definitely. Wonderful. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So moving on. I think there are a lot of rentals, a lot of our regular advertising, my cards, the financials and financials are behind my spreadsheet. Not by a ton, but a little bit. The stuff that goes through right track doesn't usually hit very quickly. So if you have any questions, that's why this report's a little different. That's all I got. Does anybody have questions? So we didn't use any of the Calhoun's funds. I'm sorry, we didn't use any of the Calhoun's funds. No, we haven't touched it. We're ahead. We only touched the fund when we were short. So when revenues exceed expenses, we don't crush the fund. We touched the fund last year for the first time in seven or eight years. Maybe no. Wow. Yeah, we haven't touched the fund. The track record. Yeah, we haven't touched the fund in quite a while. We touched it when we bought the sign. But that's what the money was worth. Okay, so I guess we just need, we'll leave it for submitted for report. All right, moving right along to Old Business Art Walk. Anyone want to talk about Art Walk? You need to answer some first, shall I? Well, my first comment was, it was amazing how many people were in here. I would say probably 70%. I thought it was great to actually open the house and have 400 people come through. Although I got to tell you my head was spinning. I literally ran the whole time, just constantly checking since I was the only one here, you know, by the house, I would see them constantly checking upstairs, downstairs, outside the musicians just to make sure that A, we didn't have people in the attic, B, we didn't have people in the basement, C, we didn't have, you know, a road jam somewhere, the video didn't quit. So I just, I think I did 20,000 steps at it. You were suffering very much. Yeah, and I swore that you guys are just funneling the house to the steps when they came through the front door. I know you weren't, because you tried to get a hole over the place, but then it just caused that people come out of the house. And then we had a couple of sneakers in with drinks that came inside the door and didn't catch right away. Yeah, and went out there and didn't get into the door. Yeah, and then we coordinated as soon as we did. Yeah, we actually had people try to come out of the alcohol. We need a second clicker. We need to put somebody down with this other door that they come through. So that they can be clicking there, we can be clicking in front. Right, clicking in front. We might have missed some numbers because we didn't help. I think we also counted some people twice though, because they came out of the house. They came in this door, went out that door, came out of this door. Yeah, because you don't want to say how you didn't click though, right? Yeah, yeah. I think we did fine. Yeah, I think we did fine. We do an event. And I tried to come out, but they all moved. We didn't have the second person over at the door. So I think that that is definitely good to go over. Absolutely. People that are just going to the garden and don't even come in the house. We don't know. Enjoying music. Yeah, that's great. He not only comes with a guitar, he comes with an audience. Yes, his neighbors all show up. There was a little girl that decided to draw a picture of him. Oh, that's so sweet. He laughed. I gave it to him. I took him over to him and said, you have a fan. And they laughed. So he is very, very good. What is his name? Doug Brunson. Brunson. Brunson. We are U-N-S-O-M. Yeah, he's, and he, all I do is call him and say, hey, you want to play for the art block? He goes, sure. He's awesome. Yeah, he's awesome. They told me they'd play in the garage every Friday night. I said, you have to tell me where your garage is. Yeah, that's the neighbors that show up. The ones that listen to them practice. Yeah, Brunson, I told him, you're going to have to tell me where the garage is at. Exactly. Awesome. Well, and I think the artists were all happy. We kind of had a wide range. And I think the gentleman in the background, he'd never shown the art before. Right. That was kind of fun. And he was really enjoying it. Magwell? Magwell. I don't remember his name. Honestly, I just was flying around and took care of all the artists. But they were newcomers to a long art. Were they? Yeah. Well, I think Shanklin saw him outside his house with an easel set up painting. House of painting. And that's how he calls it. It's house of painting. House of painting. I did find another artist. So I'll mention that to Anne. All right. I did have a couple of comments. And there was a couple of requests about pictures of the town. And maybe at the next art walk, you could just put a couple of... I know you said you'd have some. I do. But I wasn't aware of that. And I had to decide if it was Michael. We can set up a little display of the prizes. Hey, we're not out of anything. Yeah, so it's easy. Small area. We're just going to have to have so many watches so they don't walk. Yeah. Sure. I think that's possible. We've got everything started off. So you have some of these prints available for purchase? I have the one that I've been giving to you guys. I have six or seven. So I have spring, summer, fall, and winter. And then I have a combo picture of all four. And then I have the two black ones. So then eight ones. Yeah. Those are available for sale then. Yeah. It just means we have to keep our inventory. So I have to figure that out a little bit. Okay. I just... I know there was a couple of requests. I wasn't aware of it. I wasn't able to ask you until after the people had finished. And so... I just thought it would be a good idea. Even if we just sold three or four, that would be nice. Kathy probably not one of the girls for being the one I came up with. I talked to her. Yeah. She talked to everybody. She was the one with the virtual tour. Her cooter. Cooter. What's a cooter? History. I've got the cards on my desk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I owe her because she did want one. And I got a note on my desk and called her when I had one. I have to get some printed. And that wasn't actually due to the one I was in. So it was a perfect. Perfect. Okay. Are there any other comments? Speak about art walk before in the old business. Do you have dates for next year or later? No. They said they were going to be the same. But they changed it right here. So I don't have much dates in that. So I'm waiting for them to announce their dates. And I've been tied up on her. I think the September date will still be the second Saturday, which next year I think I looked at it. I kind of got them penciled in on my 2022 calendar. The 10th of September, I think. But it's still a little unclear if they're ever going to go back to doing the May art walk. Or it's always going to be this Saturday's downtown thing. So we'll just kind of watch that and see really what happens. It's a way of water. Yeah. Sarah and I went downtown afterwards. Oh, and Jake, did anybody go downtown? I didn't. I went down to so many people. So many vendors. It was just awesome. I love that. I love that. That had a cute hotel. We're big but we're small. My husband went downtown and he came back. And he told me the next day, you had the best art, the best music of any kind. Oh. So cool. I'm not sure how much that weighs. Yeah. I'm not even going to purchase this. So moving on then with new visits, the room by room self guide. So we're working that month. Without that? Yeah. We've been at. Yeah. We got together and we went through it. And what we are focusing on, just so you all know, is identifying the dates of the more, or what's original to the house, what came in the addition. Just because those are questions that are really keep on public people's minds as they're going through. Was this part of the original house? They asked a lot. We're including that in the room. This room by, this is the original house. And in this room, this was part of, what was the original house, the addition. And then the fixtures, the furniture. What? What? West Calhouns. What's the name of the book? The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The book. The walk for our. Or open house. And so just going through and really filling in those little details, Is what we'll focus on. And then all so incorporating the importance of preservation and restoration, which is what properties talk to. Because that educational component is important to have included. In. tool. Some people understand why keeping up with this is incredibly important and that it is costly and that donations are accepted, you know, and things like that. And that history Colorado has been wonderful in helping with those festivities. Exactly. Do you state how how and where to donate because that's one of the big things that they can be included in that final donations are always accepted. And you know, maybe by, you know, I can just, well, I think if we let them know where they can donate, it's possible. And even if it's only $20 in there, it does all that up. So on to the only thing. And, and then there's the other comment I know that I got part of it. Really went off about the wood working whether it was original to the house or not. So I appreciate the details. Yes. So it's going to be a much, much better tour with office. The objective is this, we put it together in what we think is a final draft. And then we provide it to all the board members and we want you to review and make sure you don't have any questions or something that doesn't happen. Did you talk to this? Did you speak about that? I addressed that so that we can really have a comprehensive covering of the content. And it's not just that kind of space that they need to be in. Oh yeah, I just think that part is so important. I was just lucky to have people that are at our office a lot who always work. I like it. People came to see me in my office. A lot. I answered a lot of questions. They were really questions, very inquisitive. Very inquisitive people. I didn't expect 400 people, honestly. I mean I think I had 150 printouts and we went through those in the first 45 minutes and it's like whoa. And they wanted to take them home and read it. Yes. One of the things is they did say, so they did ask if there was a virtual something so they could go back to the rooms. There is areas, but there are some pictures available, plus the room by room tour guide tour. The room the documentary is posted on the website. Yeah. And there's a room by room tour. That's part of the documentary. We shall include in in the detail that we will put up the house. Not only is the documentary available online, but we also have the Roslin's book available for sale, which is also another thing to include along with the sale. That would be amazing. Allow people to purchase those at the open houses. We just need to go ahead and make sure it's available. I think for more information we can include along those lines. It's an opportunity. Yes. By the time this is revised, every board member will know every answer to any kind of quirky question that anyone is probably posed and we'll also be really well prepared to answer questions or how to point out where it is in the guide. Yeah, this is it. I don't hear anything about that. So, I mean, you don't have to memorize things, but if you do remember how to reference it on the guide, then you're covered. I'm just waiting for the poppers there. No, I'm not. I am not cruel. It's a lot of history, but just knowing and being able to read through it is going to be very enlightening, very informative, and then also just helpful for to prepare everyone for the next week's house, that you have a point of reference. Oh, yeah. There's an answer to that. Let me show you where that is. So, are we working on having it ready for the Christmas? Yeah, that would be the plan. So, in order to be able to review for the November, yeah, the November is the difficult. Okay. And it's going to include the floor plan, too, which makes it easier for them to look at. Okay, I'm on the first level. Here's what the room's on the first level. And then you go through each room description. Oh, what are you thinking? Wonderful. Wonderful. It's so much fun. That's what we're helping. Maybe even change it from just the page format that you have to just crank out all the time, which is easy, but even like beginning to look pretty. That's a lot of work. If you guys would be interested when you have your completed information on kids, we work with the graphic design who does their recreation brochures, and they do other one-offs for us. And I don't know that it would be, he's generally under $200 to transform it into a beautiful finished product, but he can give a price and then he'll at least be able to just to see what it might be. It's been time late, too, to do that for 10 years. But do we have a date for it all the time? We do. Okay. Well, that's scheduled for the first Friday in December. Yes, I believe it's the third. And I guess my concern at the moment is in the current format, it doesn't fly very well. I don't see without vaccinations for little kids that people are going to be very happy putting their children on Santa's lap right after 20 other kids. So I'm a little concerned about whether or not in its current format that works. Or if we should just change it to a Christmas open house without the Santa component, or with a different way of doing Santa, if anybody has some ideas, as opposed to this expectation that everyone of the kids that comes is going to sit on Santa's lap. And so I'm really all the time. But you still touch things. I've seen the caution that my kids have with their kids at the moment with no vaccines. Right. And the prediction that they're not even have approval for vaccines for kids until November, for maybe early November, but not till at least November. And I'm just wondering if it makes sense. Even our tables set up with crayons and markers and everything. What if we just have just been off the house and show off the pre-decorations? Why would the board not do that? I think it's something nice to have some here. And I think it can be pulled off with a bit of a distance. And we've known that setting probably, but more of a stand by group. And just talk for a moment. So I think it's doable. And kids obviously are preschool age even, are gathering together in groups. With masks. And it's okay to have that. And then if you're taking a quick picture, you can take the mask off, just quickly run it and say, just take that and then move on. And he did look in with Santa and make sure Santa's okay with that. Right. But I wanted to have a discussion first before we approached him. He'll get the most of it. The ones that are whole-body kids. Right. Exactly. I believe it's four to eight. It's the same day as our lunch. I think it's doable. Yes. It's a full day of calhandouts. Right. Any other thoughts? Concerns? I mean, I'm concerned that the salmon aspect just went on. Yeah, well, I think it's probably not doable because you can have all these people kids, you can't do the six foot thing. We are going to be on social distance. That's right. It'll be real. And if the weather's bad, there won't be a place to do it with garden food. So I'm just, I'm pretty okay with it. I'm just not sure how okay the people with kids are going to be. I think that that's just the parents' joy. First of all, yeah. I mean, we just put through 400 plus people in this house in Ottawa. And yes, they're working for it. And so, I think this is doable. I don't want us to just shut the door on this day. I think modified. You know why? Yes? It's doable, doesn't it? Can you talk to Santa about what he thinks he'd like to do? There is a lot of that. I think Santa's, Santa who are Santa's out as a BQ. And I also hear what parents can find. People want to go out and do this. They do. Like I said, it was a great experience for me to just point to the valley and people would worry about it. We're in the ramps. And again, we're requiring people to show their vaccination products or anything else that can be in the door. It's just we ask why can't we wear the mask? It wasn't revealed. They came in the door. You know, it's just, I hear your point on the back of kids not being vaccinated. I also think we have to think about how many people we allow upstairs at the time. And I think we need to modify that a little bit. But I think to just kind of shut that off for families and children, I don't want a different approach. I don't either. I just, I'm just concerned. It's going to be a family choice and what they're doing in the holidays. And if they choose to come, I know that it will be a little bit more limited. And I'm sure everybody is going to be fine with that. And some people will just be, you know, they're just having fun and just take the chance and this is very big. They've had too much unrest and disruption in their lives to take this too. So I'm not, I want to allow it. I want to have it available in a modified way. So that, I'm not taking Christmas away. I think it's to just up and say, no, we can't do it anymore because COVID's going to stay around. We need to learn to modify and live with that. Okay. So how and where do you want one for us now? Because just right here in the area, Santa's up pretty little around him. We can just do expansions. We'll figure it out. So what if we speak with him? Reservations. All I can think of is last year. Excellent. And the huge number of people that were downstairs. There's no way we can do a tour. No, there's no way people can meander around and look at things because there's so many people just packed. What if we did a reservation plan? We may not get as many by hours. Then we have more control. Yeah. And they would feel it's going to have more people up without reservations. How hard is that to do? Thank you. If they do their own reservations, they're going to have to follow us. Well, we were very practiced from recreation in 2020. The ice pavilion is reservation this year. So they can do it online. They can do it at a recreation site. They can do it over the phone. We can do it in person. So maybe those options are all there. As a link is pretty easy on the site and you did email or that and then we're giving you the pass-through link. So I'll need to just click that for two minutes to go. I think most people prefer to have it. Particularly the kids having sex time when they're coming. They have it scheduled with their family and they do it. I think they'll appreciate that. Because they were disgruntled people. They were very, yeah, that's a very long way because it was a big event and it was. So I just need the time frames, the not really have fans who would allow the reservations to occur and how many can go in once kind of slow. So with those details creating that can be done pretty perfect. So sad. And you guys are pretty well set on how many people can fit in that in certain time frames, correct? You know, that's hard. That's the part you need guys and your sad experience. That's the part that's going to be hard. Okay. You may not be as popular as the other one but we have a news data. We do. I think you'll actually be quicker. That's my, but I don't know how much quicker in a different format. I think our field for how many people, I mean, I have all the numbers for how many people we put through here in the past. But I think it's going to be a little different. So I need to write some thought into it. And particularly if they're not sitting on these landfront, he's going to personally get a bunch. I'm going to go and stand and stand and I'm going to figure it out. And my guess is by the first November, we have to have the refrigeration system up. You know, refrigeration is a two-week, it's a two-week window. So you, it's two weeks. Okay. So you're going to register? Sure. Yeah. We have to get the work done for that. Well, a lot of the advertising is already gone or not gone. So we did not put it in the city line because we thought there was at least a chance it was going to fly. And we didn't want to advertise something that may not happen. But we'll, I'll work with Rochelle and we'll figure out how to get up on Facebook and the refrigeration system. And first we got to figure out the refrigeration system and then we'll figure out how to advertise it. Well, I think the first thing is, first we've got to make sure we're working the same. Oh, we have same. And he's going to work with us. Yeah. He's on my list. He'll be able to help. And he looks like he knows right. Hopefully. Yeah. Hopefully. I mean, he doesn't, I'm going to talk to me about our setup because he was on vacation and I was on vacation. So he's, he's, we've got a my list. I'm just letting you know that it's not a lack of space between the advertising but rather a whole incident. We'll see what he's comfortable with. See what he thinks about that and also just kind of bounce off of him. Each time you make a take to email for a child, for example. Well, and if the others, that might help us. The refrigeration system. Yeah. The other difficulty with the refrigeration system is people come in families. So that's going to be, that's going to be, you have to think how to do that. Okay. Yeah. Put in half hour time. Yeah. So we can do nothing. I was going to ask for a quick, if we could just say, if you could tell me in the holiday that there will be, I would like for work. So I think we're deciding. I'll send you a note. Okay, please do. What's your availability? I'd like there to be a day. Well, of course. Any day not good for you. Any day for me. When? When you say it's not good. Yeah, for sure. Thank you very much. All right. So we'll, we'll sit down. Anybody want to sit down with me next week? Have a meeting in that open house and just kind of How about later this week? I can't do Friday. I have to review. So I won't know until Monday night if I actually have to review or not. And then when they say Thursday and Friday, I'm gone. So, we'll have fun the 25th, maybe? Okay, to put it off too long because It's because it's so close. Well, because we need to get it up. I can meet tomorrow morning kids. Right. But I heard. Not in the morning. So it's at 10 tomorrow. At any time after one, two o'clock is too short. Okay, if he wants to be included, how far do we go? How would we need to do that? Carrying morning and coming. All right, we'll work on it tomorrow. And I'll dig out the numbers this afternoon. I think that's going to be the trickiest part is trying to figure out how to set up the reservation so that we don't end up either empty or hot. It's doable. Sorry. All right. Yes, two o'clock tomorrow. All right, so one idea is you can be fairly conservative to save some quality for your drop-in. Just to say, I don't have the opening now, but in 20 minutes, we can put you down for that spot so that you have some flexibility in the moment to either do that thing, do either accept somebody or say, I am sorry, we are looked up. All right, so the next question is when we're going to decorate. We usually decorate the week before Thanksgiving. We could do Monday. Tuesday doesn't work with it. We could do Monday. We could do Thursday. We could do Friday. The week before Thanksgiving. So November 15th, 17th, or November 15th, 18th, and 19th. That would work for me. I just tried to pick a day where we don't have anything going on in the house. Now, honestly, I can't have an extra pizza. He's moved, what? Oh, bring Chloe? Uh-huh. Cool. Because I know she's up. Aww. So what was the answer? 11.19 on Friday of the 19th. So we're going to do any of those things. Yeah, we could do the Friday of the 19th. 9 o'clock? 19th, 9 o'clock. I'll set an invitation. Does that work for everybody? Mm-hmm. Okay, and it usually takes all morning. And then if you want to, we can go watch. And we'll try to preset trees to expedite things. Yeah, 9 to noon-ish. Candy, do you want to own the library tree? Sure. Do you want to do something different? Or do you want to just use what you have? I can't always do things. Okay, that's what you want to do. Why the library tree? I mean, you can use a lot of those instruments and stuff, so you can do the instrument thing again. But if you have something different, you're always the one that wants to like switch it up. So that's a lot of experience. Like I want to. So we do a tree in the player. We have like a nine-foot tree in the player. We do a small kind of paint tree in the parlor. Then we have a fruit tree in the music room. And then we have, it's been kind of a red and green and white tree in the library. But Candy's done some different things with that. She brought us instruments that I don't think we'd use, so should I. Well, we used to, we took the most of our last years. We didn't decorate last year. So I mean, before you're born. Before you're born, I hope you found what I did. Yeah. And then in the dining room, we have little trees that go up on the teacup shelf and a couple of Christmas cups. And then in the rides room, we have a tree. And in this room, we have kind of a peach and off-white tree. And then we probably don't need to decorate the house this year because nobody's meeting in there. So I think we can pass on that. Or we're going to have to change the decoration a little bit. We're planning on having to say that was the best. Well, I'll figure that out. You know, we have lots of space in this room, so we'll figure it out. But it's nice to have a tree behind it. Yeah, for the pictures. So, and I have a talk to him. I'm sure he's got a chair, but we need to, I need to figure out the logistics of him of what he wants. Right. And so you just do a different thing for your room. So, I don't really know if you can kind of... She should be switching it up. She just has lots of decorations. Right. She kind of switches it up. Sounds good. You know, we also can get rid of this chair. I knew that. Let's be honest. What can I do about it? Wilder tree. All right. And it's a hundred tree. I do have a children's literature team tree as far as, you know, Alice in Wonderland. And they're just ornaments and things that are from different children's books. That's kind of fun. That's kind of fun to me. And I think that would be good to say another five. I don't know that it's so cool. Sent to read the book or... What was it, honey? Storybook characters. You know, Winsurebots, who... We did one. Madeline. All the golden books. I'm sure... It was sons of Chuck, the books. And the tree. Oh. And toys and stuff like that. That would be great to have up here. I think it would be wonderful to have as that front of Santa. Yeah. Bring all those things. You know, you grab it and put them on as Wilder step to the wall. All right. A little tree for that. Wow. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. How would you feel about a Tiffany tree? Oh, I'm generally... Tiffany boxes and... Oh. Rideshow would be great. Or all of that. Yeah, it's a great tree. That's a great idea. Yeah. That's a great idea. Or is it getting too commercial? Well, we do have a Tiffany lamp downstairs. How's it going? How's it going? How's it going? Oh, it's going to be a question. How's it going? A Victorian. And the tree that people see the least is the Brides room tree. Ah. I mean, the Brides room is more about having lights in the window for an outside. Yes. Yes. Well, I used to put it in the library. That room does a follow-up. That might be kind of fun. I mean, I don't know. Yeah. I'm just thinking a little more. I'll think about it. We'll think about it. Yeah. That front door to the tree is huge. You have to have a lot of decor for it. And I kind of like the muted Victorian mobs and goals and rust so that when you walk in, it still fits the house. Right. Yeah. So that's kind of been the rust. Kind of important. It's a good traditional tree. Yeah, a tree. Yeah, a tree. Yeah. And it's huge. Yeah. And I can fit some of that. Yeah. All right. We'll think about it. Let me know what you think. I'll just show up with that. And I'll show up with food and drinks. Well, you have to promise to eat them. Right then, you know, two bites of a pastry thing doesn't fly when you bring it to Cali. Yeah. Yeah. It's a huge tree. Yeah. Only before you get here. Yeah. All right. Right. So I'm still on the holiday decoration, because we took the stuff down right there. Right. Some of the decorations were getting a little tattered, you said. Are we going to have to consider replacing anything? For sure. Let's not do anything for the share, but let's think about it when we take them down. OK. So just take note on the stuff, because I did know you had said something when you were bringing stuff down there. We're slowly getting rid of the really old stuff, so that's at Jacqueline's, like an artist, at getting rid of stuff that we, A, don't use, or B, get broken or tattered. So let's just kind of keep in the back of our heads that we might have to think about. Got something to add here. Got something. And it's always nice to do that right after Christmas, but honestly, it's very hard to find things that are appropriate. OK. So if you find something, and you think it's great, give me a call. I'll go scab it out. But most of the decorations that are out there right now are just too plastic-y and too modern and right. So that's the real issue, is how we find things to replace them with that are appropriate. OK. And on the note of the kids books, I have some really great hand-wound glass ones, a pia pan and baked stuff like that. If you treasure them right with it, it's a time that you have to treasure them. Yeah, you treasure them. I wouldn't wear them. You have to wear them. Or not, I wouldn't put them up here. No. I have a bunch of felt, like, three-row, it's pia-row. Yeah. Yeah. They're less than millions. They're getting the less of the pia-row. Oh, the pia-rowing? Oh, that's good. They're felt. That's what I was thinking, too. More like felt. And I do have a lot. I do have balls, you know, the glass balls that I also have, ceramic ones, you know, characters and things like that. So we can just, if you want to, I don't know. So we're in tag, who's, you know, right there. Well, I mean, you have seven trees to do. So I think it's great to have a fancy one, but we still have to decorate the other six. OK. So I just don't know what all the other six are. Just bring your stuff on, too. Like I said, the one in the foyer is kind of muted. Reds, golds, rusts, rings, with some kind of fruity ribbon. The one in the parlor is kind of a pink thing, because the ribbon is pink. And those are probably the least Victorian things we have. The tree in the music room is fruit, so pears and apples and grapes and with bows. And then we've been doing kind of a red and green, white. And the library was music, a music theme. And the room was really popular. It was pretty gorgeous, because there were violins and saxophones and trombones and music. It's really, it's really, it's pretty expensive in that room. It's crazy. And then the bride's room is just kind of a white theme. And then in here it's white, and going to peach and gold. So this would be a complete change up. But it's just perfect. Right. It's perfect. It would still work. I did do it. I did do it. I did do it. I think she probably took a new dress room. Yeah. I've seen it, either. Maybe even the dress room. I'm, yeah. It's only for a bride. It's not even right as Sarah along on this. Like Sarah, she's a Tiffany, she is an equino. Well, and you know, probably the most tattered decor we have is the stuff we put in the dining room, which are those little trees with kind of mom ribbons. So we might be thinking about something different to do on the shelves in the dining room. Yeah. Just because that's pro, people don't get close to it, so I don't worry about it very much. Right. Because they're up here, but those are getting kind of sad. Something we need to buy some little trees and redecorate them for the dining room. Okay. Something like that. So keep your eyes open. Yes, that's my favorite right hand. And especially for sales, you know, I think I'm trying to think of the, I think I probably need to replace the tree in the library because we've had a lot of trouble with the lights. And I usually do that around black writing. Yeah. I'm gonna get tired of trying to fix it, so I think we'll probably get a new tree for the library. We'll probably do. Yeah. They went right back out. So I, we'll probably get a new tree for the library. I think that's where we're having trouble with. I just think that if we're worn this forearm, that we have an idea and we can see something, then we could, perfect, cool. Perfect. All right, moving right along to the board recruitment. All right. Board recruitment is starting the 4th of October and it's gonna run through the 12th of November. I think at 5 p.m. in the Bay. Karen and Kandy are expiring this year, but you're both eligible for a second term. I recently application. All right, well, there you go. All right, so then we should be full up. I mean, we might get some other applications, but I don't really wanna go out and recruit. So, but I just wanna make sure everybody knew that the deadline's coming. Okay. So, I know in the past, we've had, we're depending on who wins the mayor's race, the mayor's wife, as honest, but it included or spouse, it should be spouse. Is that going to be something that's going to be thought of, too? Well, they're not on the board. They're just not voting. Yeah, they're not voting members. So, but if Tim does win the race, then we will reach out to his wife, Janine. The other name, Janine. Janine. The neighbors, she works in. So, I just thought I'd just pass by. Okay. And she's very involved. She was crushed by our house guards. Oh, yeah. I used to live in Janine's house, Janine and Jim's house. Really? Oh, my house. My kids were right there. That's cool. Yeah, just to fill you in a little bit, we reached out to Kristen, she was here for a year and she went, this is ridiculous, I want to vote. Yeah. So, she actually applied for the board and was on the board for six years. And Brian's wife declined, we had her to team and she declined, so she was too busy. But we'll reach out to Janine if he wins the race. Of course. I just thought it doesn't, and honestly, I'm just not sure how this part would work, but we should consider that it doesn't matter what gender they are. Exactly, you're absolutely right. We just, we reach out to whoever the census is and then we just, the only one who is, I'm sure, there, has been a dirty living on the drill. Yeah. Very, very, I know, but still, as a president, I think that she just kind of, stays spouse. Make it, make it more than the way it's done. All right. That actually kind of fell under other business, but did you have other, other business? I do have a little bit. I did put together a QR code. Oh my gosh, how can it be so exciting? That it's not a little logo in the middle. I thought you were gonna try to do this. I squeezed it in. I squeezed it in. Right now it goes to the website, to the main page on the website and it would get counted with the website statistics. It's not gonna come in any different than somebody who clicks on the link for the house. But what I don't know how to do is I don't know how to display them. I'm still kind of trying to figure that out. We did hang a couple of signs on the outside of the house for the masks, mask signs. And I think I could take down the one now on the south, south door and put this so they would be under the porch and protected. But I am really looking for suggestions on how to display it or where to display it or. Well, our hope goal, or at least one of the things that I'm hoping for is that we can not just have it counted with the website but eventually that we could count it separately. Separately. So we have accounts and accurate accounts and also how it listed that if you wanna do a monetary donation at the time, if you're using our gardens and you're coming in and taking pictures, would you like to donate monetarily to the town? Is it city doing that? Yeah, there's a way on our on our web track website to have a pass-through link which is the same thing that this essentially is as a pass-through link. And then you go directly to a a donation thing as I'm going to do as a guest. That's what I was thinking for the web track that we could do count it that way and then they can make a donation that way. That's what I'm saying. And I'm hoping that we could get a donation for using the gardens. I know I have to use the gardens. I've been here and taken pictures and used the gardens. I would have donated donations. I would have just because it was just a great time to find out if you know any monetary amount of whatever. And I just think it's a good way for us to keep track. I also like to be able to keep track of numbers because it helps in our grant writing and everything else. So we know it's six people or eight people or four people or even two that have come into gardens. That's another count that we are missing. Thank you for doing this. I'm not as excited about this. This is just one of those things that you've made a pretty rigid thing. Yeah, that's really nice. So here's the question, what is it said if you'd like to make a contribution to the preservation of the Cali-Cat House if there was another just another little QR code? Which went to the right track link? Well, or you could just take it to the website that they're supposed to, you know. They would have to look though because if they're on a mobile device it has all those sub-menus and yeah, we can get outwards. We could have this to web-trap and in the description of web-trap they could click and go to the Cali-Cat. That would be good. So it could be an order, it could be a order like donation here, learn more about Cali-Cat. That would be amazing. So, and I think what we have done that for a photo is we're going with it and we can get that set up with the revenue and how we're going to do it. Oh, okay. Don't you have a revenue account for donations? Are we just, we have a revenue account for donations. It's just not set up in our truck. Yes. And somehow it needs to be mentioned that people can make monetary donations in memory of something. That's because people don't always take a bow. But how do we, how do we water that? Yeah. Because honestly. We don't have a platform. No, and we don't want to. You don't want to. I don't know. I do this all the time when it's not historical society. I send a cheque. This is in memory of song, song, song. So they send a little note card that says, thank you. Thank you. A donation has been made in the memory of your love for me. That's a cool idea. And then we don't have to, and see, I think that's a problem in your video because not every person wants flowers that they would sure like to have a donation in the memory of a love. Yeah, that's what I'm going to do and say to anybody that that's the way it is. And I could put just three or a long note or whatever. I just think it's for people that I know it's just for this. Now, I'll send it to them. No, it's not for spending money. I know you. You've got, you've got to buy it. Yes, she does. OK. All those are great ideas. Well, in there, you can pay money to track statistics from the QR code that I don't know how expensive it is. And I also don't know. I haven't reached out to Susan to see if there's any. I thought the city approved. I thought we could put one of the cities somehow. Don't. Isn't there some way that you guys keep track of how many people attend that it's rhythm on the river and other things like that? Isn't there ways that we do camps that we aren't making up? There's no way to do camps. Even in the trade show business, it's very hard. And some of the availability to grasp those metrics that you're looking for, the marketing group within the city and within community services is doing some reformatting, reorganizing, coming up with a master plan for themselves for the next five years, hoping to add a few more bodies and a little bit more resources to the table. And those things would fall under that piece as we're moving down. So there is a desire to add more geo-venting or some other more technical ways to do camps, or do pop-up surveys, or to say, hey, you're here at the gardens, we do academic donation. Those things are coming, but they're on the year five wish list. Yeah, year five. They're not here right now because we can maximize what we have, put forward future goals and maybe that would allow other departments to have some good things so that they can jump up on the. Yeah, well, I think that's great. And just knowing that it's on the pipeline, that's fabulous. Is there anything now that counts how many people open to this? Yes. It would count. It would say anything but as to happy correctly, it would say if it came from the QR code or whatever. But you would be able to see comparison from last year to this year, if all of a sudden it's a huge job. Yes. So there's ways that can. It wouldn't count how many people, unless they all got out their phones and clicked on it. Of course, the other thing we could do when the room, except it's not a room by room tour guide, but if we could put up a truncated version or something and link them to the document, and that might encourage more people to click. That's another thing that I was thinking because if the door, if I'm a nosy person, I am. I'm just going to be furious. I'm furious. I like to go wherever I'm visiting. It doesn't matter. And I always check out the historic homes and the history and the area. I find it fascinating. And I will be the person that will click on this and want to see how we can get in the house. It would be nice to be able to take the tour and look and have an idea from looking on the outside and look at this is the type of thing that I find interesting. And then I'm also more inclined to donate to because, OK, if I'm spending time here and I've looked at this and I find it exciting, I'm going to give you the money. And I think that that's really important. And like I said, it may not be a huge amount, but it's still money that we're not getting in otherwise. And we're not, if we could just have the connection, that's the big thing. So is there a way that we can do that? Just set it up to so we can click and then click to the pictures and do it, short film? I don't know. I'm going to have to preach about it. Well, my understanding is that it's the website that it goes to. You have the tour on the city website. Oh, you have the documentary. So I think a lot of what you're looking for is available. Is it easy or is it very easy? No, it's easy. Well, it has its own page. It doesn't look like that. It's not both devices. It's not very friendly. Yeah. It's much easier. So if you're trying to house about the property, so is that the site? It's gorgeous. It's not bad. About the property or everything. Cool. Callahan House photos. And if you go to the Callahan House about the property, the first thing is the documentary. Beautiful. And then the right below that is the information about the family, the house, the business, the house features, the garden, the auto house, pictures of the Callahan's. And we could go to that page. Instead of going to the main page, but then they would have to navigate backwards to get to other stuff. So I wasn't real sure where we wanted to go. Because we also have to think about people who want to book the house. We have a business here that's as important as the history. So where do we want to go? Oh, I think that's. But I like the idea of going to breakfast first, and then go communicate with the donation aspect. Just talk about, do we have statistics on that track? OK. I'm a little afraid that people will see us trying to get money from them before they get information. And then stop instead of getting information and then saying, oh, I'd really like to donate. Well, could we add to the page? The donation button. I think that might be a better one too. Could we just do a donation button on the main page? Yeah. Do you want it on the main page or the history page? I guess we could put it everywhere, right? Jesus. If you want to create the button, it can go to the button. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And maybe you have different QR codes and different parts of the area. If you find a way that you appreciate how they're displayed, you know, the QR codes. And if they're, you don't have the same QR code in every area, like if you think that over there, they think they can picture us for purposes. Thank you for joining our party, just for making a donation. Your code. You know, that could be somewhere different than the ones around the house where people are enjoying their passion. I have a little question. Signage is very expensive though, so we have to think through where I am. Signage is very expensive, especially if it's got into our weather. Anyway, we started to do the steps. Well, yeah, that piece we're all against. This is great. I'm just so excited. I've mentioned last month that we were here about this auto and website that had bumped into another museum of things. It's called AutoCast, O-T-O-Cast. And it's, they've got very buggering tours, but you can see everything that you can go and visit. And I just downloaded the app. And then, where I am, you can check auto and see if there's any tours available of the museum. So it's called AutoCast, O-T-O-C-A-S-T. And yeah, it just comes up with a, it knows where my location is. So it's like Highlands Ranch, Art & Founders, and Foxboro Art & Founders. So they've got Jim Parker, a lot of different things going on. And even the art walk, you know, the stuff, down to the college rooms. Maybe it would reach us further out to Nebraska and stuff. So there's nothing locally? Nothing. Because if it was on a ride, you would be pulling it up along on its way. But really, it's mostly the same. Right now, it starts to just turn its back. Anyway, but I did go tour, you know, some places and different places. And then in the museum that I got the app from, they had a wonderful room-by-room tour of their old district museum, and you know, how to get there and all of that. So it's just really nicely done. I had no idea what cost, or you know, how much you could pay. So anyway, that'd be good for the city to get into. Well, thank you very much. And that is amazing other business. So, all right, we've been on. Do we have any other business to discuss? I just have one comment. I'm going to start sending out a note about a week before the board meeting for agenda items. So if you have anything, would you just get them back to me? And if I don't care anything, I'm just going to move on. OK. So I do appreciate the posting. I can peruse it. And then I'm not taking up a tremendous time of writing. They're going to be like, OK, if I'm having issues, it just gives me a chance to bring it forward and do what I need to do. Well, it was like, yes, three afternoons soon enough for you. I'm trying to get them done earlier, but it's kind of difficult. The meanest stuff doesn't tighten up until the end of the first week of the month. So the financial stuff is hard to do any earlier than that. Sure. I thought it was helpful that I just read it last night, I skimmed over it, and I didn't even read it. Yeah, and I saved paper, and the museum will write to peruse it. And it's earlier, it's better than later in the evening, but if we can get it in the afternoon, then it would be great. And then that way I can just give it to me a better opportunity to do it. Cool. I will keep trying to get them out on the afternoon of the day before 2 o'clock. Sooner if I can. The weeks where the second Wednesday of the early in the month gets harder. It's the financial stuff just doesn't tighten up. It moves, sitting it moves, I get almost all the before and after vacation, and then it was all dessert. So I had to do it. Yeah. You're not your head. Yeah. I get it. OK. So on the future agenda items, does anybody else have any comments to add? Yeah, can we go ahead and add them actually on here? And I think probably you know, you can just add those back on it so that we keep them on there as on our radar. OK. So we can put the house manager pictures. House manager pictures and scrapbook. We can include the planting of the other on-permanent sign. We'll occur in May at 7.22, and we can even list it for the annual present passport member's teeth. It's scheduled for May 1st at 7.22. Planning for that will begin in February. I mean, those are things that it just kind of puts it out there on our radar. It looks like the gift has come. And oh, let's get to that. Do you want to have some time to talk to them? Yeah. I'm sorry. So let's actually keep that as our. That's very helpful. Thank you. In the minutes that we talked about earlier, that's probably a future meeting agenda item. How long should it be written? How do we incorporate the house manager's report in minutes without? I've got it in my list. I'm not sure it needs to be in the future, but I've got it in my list, so I'll cycle that. But I'll forward it. I'll email this to y'all, just so that y'all can take this. It would make for a session as easy as this. Incorporation can have your report without the full information in the minutes. Yes, you can. Oh, do we have an update on the paper, sure? I mean, as I come up, I know that we have that you're getting the pricing line. I'm sorry, I didn't hear anything on the left. There's a pink brochure. It has to go, sure? Yes. So it's going to be printed out as we put it together, right? I was going to call you back about the car. Karen and Clay, and I continue to do research. I found it, too. I'll send her the link on the follow-up. For the car, when it's first, it is. I know I did all that research, too. Karen loved it, too. And it's like, no, it's not a confirmation of the price as an earlier model. So I will, I'll send it to you. It said they used the reverse gear to slow it down or something. I'll find it. That's what you're taught never to do. Well, they didn't test cars. I know. I know. I know. So I forget exactly what it said. I did all fine to throw first. With respect to the car or with respect to the calendar? No, with respect to the car. Yeah. Yeah. It was doing it. It was doing it. I forget exactly what it was. They were using it to do something related to driving it. Oh. All right. OK. So we're good? All right.