A Day At The Abbey

So today marks our first full day of production at the new workspace and boy what a day it was. Here, in no real order are some of the reasons why this place just rocks.

1) Having a blacksmith for a neighbor who not only plays great music, but hammers steel in time to ‘40’s swing tunes
2) Trains rumble past not 5 feet from the windows.
3) Having neighbors whom; when you tell them that you make bondage rope, ask excitedly, “Cool! Can you show me some?”
4) Having these same neighbors look at one of our time-consuming hand process and then dash off to their shops to make a tool that will do it in a fraction of the time.
5) Boil kettles big enough to cook an entire human… or 1200 feet of rope at a time.
6) Free Wi-Fi access at the nearby coffee house, and they make a damn fine Americano too.
7) After they craftspeople leave at the end of the day, the rock bands come in to practice across the courtyard.
8) Listening to live music pour out of a dozen different practice spaces as you walk to the bathroom.
9) A motorcycle club has their clubhouse across the courtyard as well as a custom chopper shop is located around the corner.
10) New lunch destination, “The Georgetown King of Curry”, Griffin and I have a date to try it out on Wednesday.

We are at home amongst the artisans who craft things from steel and cut stone, the musicians, the rebels, and of course the motorcycles too.