Brick and Mortar
Brick and Mortar In this day and age anyone can start a new business. You purchase a web address, list some item or service and there you go. It certainly is a magical time to be alive where dreams and visions can become a reality without the investment of a physical location and all that […]
Yikes!!!
November 6, 2020 Dear Diary, Today my right eye started twitching from stress. This has never happened before. I was heading home from Parker Lumber in Bradford, Maine-about 3 hours north of Portland. The load of lumber that I had on the truck was too much for the truck to handle(I couldn’t have known this […]
Dear Diary,
September 3, 2019 Dear Diary, I had the most amazing idea today! I decided that I am going to start a new business! I think I’ll call it the Lumbery. April 21, 2020 Dear Diary, I have never been more stressed out in my life. I am nearly out of money, I can’t figure out […]
Pine Trees and Aspirin
Pine Trees and Aspirin Maine is the Pine Tree State. So why are you buying pine from Idaho and Georgia and Canada? Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase said, and I quote, “Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn’t have them, we’d still be living in tents and eating buffalo.” […]
Arachno-Capitalism
Arachno-Capitalism: When a web of people form the words “some pig”…or something like that. “Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider’s web?” “Oh, No,” said Dr. Dorian. “I don’t understand it. But for that matter I don’t understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. […]
Nailed It!!!
Nailed It!!! Last Tuesday we received approval from the Town of Cape Elizabeth planning board! To celebrate we are super excited to announce the “Grand Opening” of our online store!!! Now you can be the first one on your block to sport some fresh, hip Lumbery schwag. Including some sweet T’s! Type in the word […]
Thinking Differently
Saving the planet is going to take creativity. Although I love the standard methods of planet saving that many of us exercise in our daily lives such as recycling, planting a tree or biking to work; I am very much drawn to the ideas that seem far fetched or even ridiculous. I recently listened to […]
Embodying Ralph Waldo Emerson
Touring People, Visiting Mills Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “It’s not the destination, It’s the journey.” Butler’s Cedar Shakes Corinth, Maine You might purchase a piece of wood at my store but the story of how it got there is worth learning and savoring. This week my partner, Ryan Holland, and I went on a journey […]
Onwoods and Upwoods!
For over 15 years I have owned and managed Willard Square Home Repair. It started out as just me. Then it was just me and Mario. Then it was just me, Mario and Ian. Then is was me, Mario, Ian, Rodeo, Chun, Mark, Sean, Bob, Ryan, Jenn, Dustin, Erin, Rick and on and on. We […]