A crazy soggy week week helped along by a last minute notice from the freight company that the ship carrying the Chesapeake book had docked in Philadelphia and that my copies would arrive in less than a day. Rain all week from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee destroyed the schedule for several shoots, so everything was in flux. The original idea was to drop the pallets in my driveway and I would split the packages for delivery to a few books stores and an environmental group. The torrential rains put a stop to that idea. I had the books diverted to my nearby storage unit.

Of course, Murphy raised his ugly little head and the delivery truck broke down. The battery died and the lift would not function. The driver managed to get the truck started for a few minutes and we tossed the pallets of books onto the loading dock with the help of a pallet jack. 700 books does not look like much until you look at the pallets that are shrink-wrapped in plastic and belted with tin wraps.

The good thing is the orders are starting to come in – even though I won’t have the paypal page set up for another day. I’ve sold or delivered close to 200 copies so far. Grafik, the primary designer for the book took a delivery of signed copies and a major environmental group just purchased 116 copies.