Once you are in a project with your goals and your strategies, you often need to step back and look at where you are going and what you’re trying to accomplish. After about 2 1/2 years of steady work with Mandarin’s Retreat, Mrs H and I have come to the conclusion that our initial goalContinue reading “Big Change”
Category Archives: Thoughts and musings
Saturday Musings
It’s been a busy and frustrating week, with some successes and failures. Biggest frustration was being bounced off the DAFDay website and having no idea as to why. It’s all fixed now, but man. Sometimes it feels as if we’re just floundering around in this fund raising effort. I sat in on a marketing webinarContinue reading “Saturday Musings”
1st Year Anniversary
23 July is the first anniversary of our approval as a 501c(3) organization and the “official” date of the founding of Mandarin’s Retreat. If you’ve read through the material on the website, you would know that as a cat rescue, we’ve been caring for cats for much longer. Mrs H and I got our firstContinue reading “1st Year Anniversary”
Incidentals
Last week was busy and I didn’t spend much time on social media. Having eight kittens chasing their tails and falling off of counter tops at Kitten Day Care (KDC) in the office kept us on our toes. In addition, we’ve been dealing with two fairly sick cats: Cody and Carmello. Cody is not quiteContinue reading “Incidentals”
Odds, Ends & Asking for Help
Rather than post a Caturday Cat this morning, I thought I would catch everyone up on the happenings around Mandarin’s Retreat. The Retreat has had to spend a bunch of money – into four figures – fixing the HVAC system in the Retreat’s Office. We remodeled our back porch into a home office and ITContinue reading “Odds, Ends & Asking for Help”