How many times have you walked up to a store door, tried the handle and found it locked ? More than a few times, I'll bet, if you are in Borrego Springs in August!
You know what I'm talking about. August in Borrego is different from any other place! Shop owners have a delicate balancing act to perform...Will the air conditioning costs exceed revenues - will the store have customers or has everyone gone on vacation to cooler places? Each store has come up with his very own solution: Some have what they call " summer hours", some stay open, some close for the week end, some are open only on the weekends and others close for a month or even for the entire summer!
This can be rather confusing for the Borrego Springs resident who stays here all year! For example: The Fudge shop usually is closed during summer but I passed it and noticed the umbrellas were up. I stopped to talk to the owner and he told me he had only opened because Calico's had closed for a few weeks, but after the owners of Calicos return, they would go back to the original summer routine. He said the best way to gauge is this..." If the umbrellas are open, we are,too. If they are down, we are closed." Well, in the time it took to go to the hardware store and drive past the shop on the way home, I noticed the umbrellas had been lowered!
The shops that close for the summer are easy to spot...they have sheets covering the windows. The others? I guess it's just up to us to read the signs in the windows!
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