The nursery closed Christmas Eve and reopened Monday Jan 4th to news of the impending cold weather expected later in the week. The phone rang off the hook all week with homeowners that needed information on winter plant protection and customers searching for frost cloth. We quickly sold 5 cases Monday and ran out. Sherri ordered what she could from our suppliers. We got a 300 foot roll Wednesday morning. We sold all of that in about 2 hours. Everyone was also out of frost cloth around town. 
         We then realized we had nothing else to sell this week because of the extended freeze expected Thursday evening through Saturday.  No one wants to plant cool weather annuals when they know the weather temps are going into the teens. Consumers feel the same way about trees and shrubs even though the freeze has little to no effect on them. Pottery and hardlines are not much in demand in January so I made a decision to close Friday and Saturday. I know we can't make any money being closed but sometimes cutting your losses is the best plan.
        We had a similar situation in the 90's with a shortage of frost cloth one winter. The next August Kelly brought in cases of frost cloth and puts them out on display with a sign that read  "Frost cloth. Get it while it's hot."  All those cases sold rather quickly. 100 degree weather and we were selling frost cloth!
        I mentioned above that we were closed the last week of December. I had to meet with my accountant at the nursery that week. It was rainy and cold that day. I left a gate open for my accountant about 15 minutes before our appointment. A car pulls up and a lady checks our front door and finds it locked. She starts walking around the parking lot. I open the door to say that we are closed this week. She looks at me and starts crying. I said "please don't cry...we are open for you."  She needed a tree to give to someone that had helped her through a tough time in Houston this Christmas but she had to go back to Baton Rouge where she lives.
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