Brettuns Village
Trunks & Leather
Old Trunks, New Leather.
All from Maine.
March 31, 2010
Where did March
go? Here it is, the 31st, and that means tomorrow is
April already. I think there’s
still some New Year’s Eve confetti
stuck in what’s left of
my hair, but all of a sudden the entire first
quarter of 2010 is boxed
up and ready for filing. Wow. Years grow
shorter, not longer, as
you said, Mr. Buffet. At any rate, here comes
April, and in Maine that
means one thing and one thing only: You’ve
only got one day left.When you’ve only got one
day left there are a lot of things you may
want to try to fit in. For
example, if I walk down the hall to the
Sales Department and ask
them what they’d recommend when someone in
Maine only has one day left,
that bunch of drool poolers would flat
out tell you to jump on
the Brettuns Village Deal of the Week
(perforated side leathers,
a buck a foot with free shipping). In the
world of high pressure web
sales that’d be the best they could come up
with. It’s OK, that’s
their job.Out in the warehouse, where
our employees are running around trying to
make sure that if you place
your order today it gets shipped today,
and where you don’t want
to stand in one place for too long or you’ll
get blind-sided and knocked
clean across the aisle and into the
decorative doo-dad racks,
and those racks came out of an old shoe
factory so they aren’t all
that sturdy and there’s a better than even
chance that at least one
shelf will crack and then all manner of
little leather craft decorations
will rain down on you, and believe me
when I tell you that a lot
of those things have prongs on the back;
prongs that are just sharp
enough to make you say ‘GOLLY!’ when they
land on your noggin.
Anyway, that sentence got away from me but the
point is the warehouse crew
would tell you to spend this one day
you’ve got left doing absolutely
nothing but sitting down. Don’t
move. Maybe enjoy
one cigar, but that’s about it.The front office staff, with
their coffee machine that takes those
cool little ‘coffee shot’
cartridges so they can make just one single
cup of Raspberry Vanilla
High Fiber Decaf at 3:12 pm to help round
out their work day – and
this quite a crew let me tell you – they’d
tell you to spend that last
day figuring out how to use our Sole Bends
(which were tanned to be
used as floor tiles) to make cereal bowls (I
kid you not) and they’d
also remind you to go take another look at the
Deal of the Week and just
buy some of each of the items listed there
even if you don’t have any
idea what you’d ever do with it (that’s
apparently they way they
shop up there, based on all the LL Bean boxes
we see flying in the door).Here in the Shipping Room,
where Charlie and I spend our time, if you
were to hop in your pick-up
truck, point it up I-95, take the Lewiston
exit, swing past the metal
recycling yard, take a right at the
National Guard Armory, under
the overpass, and into the dooryard here
at Worldwide HQ, come on
inside and we’ll tell you exactly how to
spend the one day you’ve
got left.This is Maine, after all,
and when it gets to be March 31st just about
anyone with a pair of wool
britches can tell you that the only thing
you need to even think about
doing is to fill out the annual Moose
Hunt Permit Application
so that you can get it delivered to the Inland
Fisheries and Wildlife building
in Augusta before the cut-off time.
Now, keep in mind that this
deadline is only for those who still fill
out the paper application.
These are the same people who have to put
on snowshoes, walk out of
the woods for 3 hours to get to the road,
get the truck running, drive
an hour and a half to get down to an
organized township, find
the post office, and lick that one stamp, and
they’d have to do that today
in order to make tomorrow’s deadline.
For you online applicators,
you’ve got until May 14.The State holds their annual
Moose Permit drawing in late June, and
it’s a big, party-like affair
attended by hunters, moose lovers,
families, guides, old timers,
and kids. This year will be my 21st
year to throw my name in,
but I’ve yet to be drawn. Maybe this is the
year. I’m not complaining
– Amanda (my wife of 21 years) got drawn
back in 1992 and she was
kind enough to invite me along. We put our
little Becca, 10 months
old at the time, in the backpack, put a bullet
in the old 1951 Browning
Safari .30-06, and took us a walk in the
woods up near Moscow, Maine.
A week later we stopped by the butcher
shop to pick up our little
white packages, all 420 pounds of it. If
you haven’t tried moose
before suffice to say it’s lean as can be,
more tender than beef, and
very mild tasting, with none of that ‘wild
game’ flavor. It’s
good. Even after we ate that moose for two and
half years it was still
good.So, consider this fair warning
– time to pay the fee and fill out the
paperwork. Best of
luck to you – I hope you get drawn this year. Oh
yes, one other thing before
I sign off – up above where I was talking
about front office staff
and warehouse staff and sales agents I think
we all know just about exactly
how many people that boils down to and
what, within a letter or
two, is his first name. Just you wait though
– the payroll is growing
and one of these days, as I have often
threatened, we’re going
to get us a forklift.Over and out-
Churchill Barton
Brettuns Village Leather
Lewiston, Maine
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