Posts Tagged ‘summer’

Rain can’t stop eHarbor summer party

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

By Robert Lockard

Those of you who read my April blog entry “eHarbor summer party coming in June” know this weekend is the time of this long-awaited event. It will be held in Hobble Creek Canyon, near Springville, Utah. On Friday night, we’ll enjoy a barbecue and outdoor movie. I’m definitely excited for that.

Rainy camp site

eHarbor, Inc. employees will be able to camp out that night and compete in water e-lympics Saturday morning. Here are some of the activities the e-lympics will include:

· Water volleyball

· Watermelon-eating contest

· Water-balloon toss

· Water kickball

· Hula-hoop contest

· 3-legged race

I hope the clouds will begin to part and the rain will stop by Friday. I grew up in the Puget Sound area of Washington state, so I’m used to rain and clouds. But here in Utah, I’ve been trying to get used to the extreme cold of winter and extreme heat of summer. I don’t mind having cool weather in the summer, but it’s starting to throw me off a little.

Anyway, even if it’s not the best weather, I’m sure we’ll have fun. On Monday, I watched a play of “Beauty and the Beast” at the Scera Shell outdoor theatre in Orem, Utah. It rained on us for a while leading up to the start of the play. But I enjoyed that play so much I hardly minded the rain at all.

Before the summer party, each eHarbor department (Support, Marketing/PR, Design, etc.) was asked to create a flag to represent it. There were some really creative designs, and I am excited to see them at this event. I hope to get some great pictures of them and other things for a future blog post.

The photo of the tarp sagging with rain is from Flickr, and it is the copyright of nalilo.

Movie night celebrates eHarbor, Inc. success

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

By Robert Lockard

I keep adding tidbits from movies to my blog entries to spice them up. I’ve mentioned several movies in my blog entries: “The Natural” (1984), “Pinocchio” (1940), “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981), and “Back to the Future Part II” (1989).

This time I’ll focus solely on movies. Indulge me a little as I depart from ecommerce topics once again.

Knowing (2009) movie posterOn March 27, eHarbor, Inc. will treat its employees to a showing of a new movie called “Knowing.” That movie looks really interesting. eHarbor has been seeing exciting growth in 2009, despite tough spots in the U.S. economy, so this will be a fun reward for all of us who are making eHarbor’s success possible. eCommerce seems to be doing pretty well, under the circumstances. Don’t lose hope!

It’s still March, but it feels like summer with the kinds of movies coming out in theaters. Watchmen” and “Monsters vs. Aliens” are two examples of movies with a summer feel. But both of these have March release dates. Hopefully, the real summer movies won’t disappoint, either.

My next blog entry will be the last in the search engine optimization series we’ve been covering for several weeks. There are plenty of other exciting topics to discuss, so stay tuned! The “Knowing” poster is the copyright of Summit Entertainment.