Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

A Christmas Tradition

A Christmas Tradition

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Fall Festival

Celebrate fall – the harvest of plenty, the changing of colors, the scary things that a transition of seasons can bring.  Pick up the whole set.  Of just the ponies you’ve missed!
Fall Festival

Celebrate fall!

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Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day!

American Eagle Wolf

American Eagle Wolf

Wishing all of you a happy and safe holiday weekend!

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Year of the Goat

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all our friends!

We love our customers!

True Love

True Love, Trail of Painted Ponies

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Marmot Predicts an Early Spring

After we publicized Stormy Marmot’s Groundhog Day prediction in 2014, Stormy kept us on his distribution list for weather predictions.

Stormy Marmot

Stormy Marmot predicts an early spring. Picture courtesy of Marmot Adventures.

While last year’s prediction was for a long winter, for 2015 Stormy is predicting an early spring. As retailers who don’t carry winter clothing, we are perfectly happy to hear that winter will see an early end. More sunshine and more warmth is good for pretty much everyone except the winter Olympics.

Looking at the news feeds, it looks like the groundhogs across the country are fairly evenly split when it comes to how much winter is left. Weathermen tell us that technically, because Groundhog Day, is a cross-quarter day, there is unconditionally six weeks of astronomical winter left for the northern hemisphere, but this is independent of warm and cold phases in the climate.

Climatologists are predicting 2015 to be an El Niño year, meaning warming of the ocean waters, resulting in warmer and dryer weather for the year.

Historical statistics show that groundhogs are about 40% accurate in their predictions. Weathermen make the right call about 75% of the time. This of course reminds us that as retailers we are deeply focused on economic forecasts and traditionally the economists are only right when using a rear-view mirror.

We would be amiss not to mention that you can order a marmot or a groundhog from us and start your own weather prediction service.

Thank you for your prediction, Stormy! We’re hoping that good weather flows your way!

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Happy New Year!

Closing out 2014, we wanted to wish all of our friends a very happy and prosperous 2015!  We look forward to seeing all of you again in the year to come!

Happy New Year

Hanging Lake, Colorado.

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Cowboy Santa Centerpiece

Cowboy Santa Centerpiece

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Small Business Saturday

As a small retailer we are always left to wonder how we compare to the rest of the country.  How are our sales compared to similar stores?  How are our sales compared to the regional average?  Are we doing as well as the entire country?  Are we managing to stay ahead of the big chains that can crush us if they simply roll over?  Or are we falling behind in any of our critical categories?  In a way being a small retailer is akin to “Keeping up with the Joneses”.

With National Games Week effectively over, a question that we received was how do the games we sell stack up against the list that we published.  That’s a great question!  And the answer is that we’re nowhere near being average.  It seems that a lot of our sales are far more specialized and that’s probably a reflection of the many quirky and eccentric customers that we have the pleasure of serving.

Here’s our list of best selling games. While there are some striking similarities, there are also some significant differences and the order, without a doubt, is very different.

Rank

Game

1

Dice

2

HeroScape

3

Settlers of Catan

4

Monopoly

5

Apples to Apples

6

Ticket to Ride

7

Tantrix

8

GURPS

9

Dwarven Forge

10

Uno

11

Chess

12

Chekit

13

Arkham Horror

14

Power Grid

15

Carcassonne

16

Railroad Tycoon

17

Munchkin

18

Trivial Pursuit

19

Cranium

20

Politicards

Our goal is to serve the needs of our customers.  Often we will will go on a hunt to find the right vendors to deliver the products our customers are looking for.  After all, we are here specifically for our customers.  Thank you for shopping with us on Small Business Saturday and on all other days of the year!

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