Dinner and Color Street, Mama’s travel, the weekend

Mama and I spent the evening with Red and Joanne yesterday. Red is a former colleague, now retired. He and his wife are delightful people. Red is a professional Santa Clause. A part for which he is certainly type-cast. He has the beard, the belly, and the laugh to be very convincing. Anyway, we were invited to dinner partly to just visit and catch up, but also so that Mama could apply one of the new Christmas nail sets from Color Street to Joanna’s nails. Since she will be accompanying Red to a couple Santa gigs this weekend as Mrs. Clause, she wanted to look the part down to the manicure. Mama even donated a pair of Christmas earrings to the cause. Both of them enjoy the Santa moments in various homes through this season, but Red enjoys it significantly more than Joanne. While she enjoys Christmas, he enjoys the performance. So much so that he stays in character all year long. He even has business cards that he passes out to little ones who stare at him with that wonder of recognition. The card has a picture of Santa Clause and simply says, “Yes, I am.” to answer their unspoken question. We had a fun, relaxing evening and Mama made a great sale to Joanne. Hopefully, we will get some follow-up as Joanne wears the appliques to the appointments Santa has over the weekend.  

We squeezed the evening into a very busy schedule for me and Mama. Busy for Mama more so than for me. Mama is meeting up with several of her upline in Color Street this morning to travel as a group to Austin. Mama’s second consecutive weekend in Austin. They will be attending a marketing seminar. I believe all but two of her Color Street team will be attending as a group. Some of the ladies are traveling from Idaho and Colorado as well as Michigan to meet each other face-to-face and participate together in the motivational session. It will not be cheap, but the costs are being shared among the team, so we are getting off pretty easy on this weekend-long training.

Mama will be driving the North Texas part of the team down in our vehicle, so we had to take the time before our evening with Red and Joanne to get the Sequoia washed and vacuumed. Mama has been softly complaining about the state of the exterior of the vehicle for a few days now, so she was greatly relieved to have a clean vehicle to provide to her group, several of whom are millionaires from their individual Color Street businesses. Obviously, Mama is a little intimidated to cruise around with her wealthy upline, but they all love Mama, and this will be a great chance to adsorb the strength and confidence these ladies have to share as they converse and interact through the weekend. I am curious to know how much they live out their business without thinking about the way they interact with people around them. How they create interest. How they collect contact information. How they sell themselves as well as Color Street.

I am prayerfully confident that this is a business in which Mama can succeed. I am convinced of the worth of pursuing a successful business with Color Street. The operating philosophy, the largely Christian focus and the attentiveness to the stylists actually working the frontline for the company are all indicators of a great company. They routinely give to worthy causes (several million dollars this year alone) and have a heart for those in need. I am impressed by the leadership in Color Street and want to help Mama succeed. At present, she is beginning to see her part in making that success happen and the Lord is blessing her continued efforts to help others make money through Color Street. Presenting this company, this product, and this opportunity to others so they can join in the success is the foundational principle of the overall business model offered. An innovative product in a virtually untapped market. Now is the time to get busy and grow with this young company.

I have some chores lined out for tomorrow, not the least of which is to attend an estate auction in Bridgeport. I am not sure why, but Mama is very concerned that I attend. There are some items I could identify from the pictures posted on Facebook that would be of interest to me, but we do not really have the money to buy “stuff” that I mostly already have. But I will go as promised and see if anything grabs my attention and is bid below the price I set for the item. Other than that, I will continue to work through a small projects list I have for the farm. Since the little bucklings are going to be in the pig building for a time, I will place the glass door we have over the walkthrough entry and put up a wind block over the animal passage into the building in the hope of limiting the wind blowing through the small enclosure.

Working the hives and cleaning the goat areas will round out the remaining hours of daylight I have available tomorrow. I do love this life., especially sharing it with Mama.