day two: happy halloween!

we got colors picked out and had the enormous deli cases demolished and readied for their egress today.


thanks to our friend Meg who was an enormous help with the colors. she's a color whiz.


talked about the lighting too, I grabbed some bulbs on my way home- we'll try them out tomorrow.

we called it quits a little early today, Mike had something this afternoon and I have a Halloween gig tonight. I dropped dead into bed for a nap soon as I got home. pooped.

oh, when I got to the shop I made a cheesesteak and egg sub for breakfast. holy mother hubbard that was a breakfast and a half.

day one: over

still working on the colors.

the lighting needs attention. once the sun is down the place is difficult to inhabit. this is our most immediate and most transformative opportunity at present.

we tasted a dozen wines today with a rep from a niche-y wine distributor. funtimes. hi-q stuff from off the beaten paths.

took photos, I'll get some up later.

heading in for day one...

ok, grabbing paint rollers, pans, deck brush (the floor in there is a SIGHT.)

I guess today we'll be cleaning out the huge deli cases and getting to know the employees we're keeping from the previous owners' staff. And painting. there's a lot of painting to do.

I need to learn the micros POS system and how to run the ATM... If I chip away at the operational stuff as we do the physical labor I might know how to make the place go by the time we open.

We own it.

Mike and I had a roomfull of lawyers and a broker and whatever this afternoon. thanks to Tom and his smooth professional handling of the deal.

we have the keys and the paint samples in hand. work starts in earnest tomorrow. we have several days worth of corned beef and a handful of pickles to run through. once the tongue is exhausted we'll open the shop I s'pose.

plan is to get the place rejiggered and open for business ASAP. we have experience building the plane as it's taxiing toward takeoff, but this is our biggest challenge ever. meatballs.

Hey All.

Mike and I are s'posedly closing on the place tomorrow. we've been putting in a lot of time this week. Mike's been meeting with vendors and I'm putting together our team. never hired barstaff or a chef before, this is pretty interesting. the available labor pool is a good indicator of how rough it is out there. I'm excited to be offering work for folks. the resumes are impressive, and we're in a spot where we can get rolling with an amazing group of folks.

It's been daunting sitting in a place with so few customers. We have our work cut out for us I s'pose.

Here we go...

Here's a start on a work in progress...

the falls is a prospective bar/restaurant in the works for the mt. washington village neighborhood in Baltimore, MD.

I'll be working on this and publishing later once things are moving toward. after closing p'raps.