So, yet another Nor’Easter!  I’ve never seen anything like this in all my years of living in Virginia Beach.  I don’t know how many storms we’ve had this winter (I’m too irritated to actually look it up), but I fear it’s been a lot!  Too many for me.  For someone that lives for warmth, winters in the 757 can feel like an eternity.  Although, our sea faring friends up in New England have much worse to deal with…so, I really can’t complain.  It does seem that the older I get the further south I want to go.  South Carolina is looking awfully attractive right now.  Maybe I’m just in a funk right now.  When the warmer weather starts to crawl in, I’ll remember why we love it here.  Soon enough I’ll have my toes in the warm sand watching Harbor and Haley play on the beach, and mommy chasing after them!  Glad Megan isn’t looking over my shoulder while I type this

In the meantime, we here at TommyWants are busy trying to figure out how to create a little coast in every kid.  We’re still trying to pound the pavement so to speak and get our fantastic polo shirts and belts into boutiques throughout the east coast.  We’re making some headway…I guess you have to crawl before you can scuttle   We have so many new ideas for new products that we can’t quite tackle yet (like bermuda britches in khaki and other tropical colors, more shirt colors like drawn butter, morey green, etc.).  But, I feel this is going to be our year, the year of the crab!  What we have managed to accomplish is putting together a cute little product line of t shirts and one pieces that are environmentally friendly.  The initial designs are fairly simple “branding” pieces that are made of 100% organic cotton, printed with water-based inks, and manufactured in a socially responsible way.  People much smarter than I am tell me that 1/4 of the pesticides manufactured in the world are used to grow fluffy cotton, making cotton the most environmentally damaging crops grown.  We have become so intrigued by this fact because of our love for the ocean.  Apparently, all that pesticide makes its way into the ocean…not good.

So, while we continue to plug away at creating a little coast in every kid, we aim to do it in an environmentally friendly way.  We hope that you will be a partner with us to build this into something of a much larger scale so that the amount of good we can do grows as well.  You can do this simply by spreading the word about our website, our facebook page, and our initiative to do good!  Thank you.

Capt. Tommy