United Supermarkets Marketing Department at Go Away!

Go Think! hosted and facilitated the United Supermarkets three-day FY09 Marketing Planning Session at Go Away Farm this past week. Katie Mullins, Senior Partner at Go Think! helped with the facilitation and presented Branding and Retail Trends.  

The team got a lot of work done, and yet had a little time to sit by the fire. The cuisine was "off the charts", as is the usual for Mikki and her team. What a great way to kick off the New Year! And what a wonderful group of people to get to work with. 

The United Marketing Team. From left to right: Randy, Seth, Michelle, Jeff, Tyra, Jerry, Eddie, Lori, John and Dawndi.

Randy and Jeff chatting outside the conference center.

Seth by the fire pit during break trying to get the shelf tags moving for that new store!

Randy holding court over dinner on Wednesday evening.

Around the firepit on a cool evening.

Michelle being chased by Coal.

Eddie found a good place to work.

Seth, Jerry and Randy in deep thought over that design.

Jeff, Michelle and Lori in the conference center.

Loaded with a batch of home made buttermilk / lemon cookies, ready to board the plane and head to Lubbock. 

Winter time at Go Away Farm

The Peruvian Posse of miniature donkeys was on guard at Go Away Farm. Especially if you are a varmint looking for a baby calf. These are some of the sweetest, yet swiftest killers of small varmints that you have ever seen. They are big pets. Yard ornaments, so to speak. 

We've had four "baldy" calves born these past two holiday weeks. A baldy is a cross between a Hereford and an Angus. They make beautiful calves.

There is a strange beauty about the wintertime. Seems that the trees turn to giant sculptures. The monochromatic tones of winter are comforting. And there isn't anything that comes close to the smell of burning oak in the fire pit to signal the arrival of winter at Go Away Farm.

Galen tries out the new Beretta Silver Pigeon 20 gauge over / under shotgun. It is light and tight. Nice gun. Can't wait to hunt quail with it this year. Supposedly a banner year due to all the rain we've had in Texas. Here, Charles Ingram manned the trigger on the skeet machine as I (Galen) took out a few clay pigeons. 

The addition of the rock posts on the new Guest Barn & Conference Center is a nice touch. It ties the facility into the house real nicely.