Hey there, and welcome to Manatee Pants! Thanks for digging in to the About page to find out more. We’re Dick and Vag, the proprietors. We’ve been married for nearly 30 years, so we’ve been around the block a time or two, and we launched Manatee Pants to share some of the things that make us happy (and also because we weren’t good enough to form a band). Our motto is “Make the world you want to live in” and we hope to inspire you, or at least encourage you, to find joy in the act of creation.
Dick has been prowling scrap wood piles and playing in his grandfathers’ shops since Gerald Ford was president. Vag is a fairy princess who digs bugs and seashells and anything with whiskers (she’s also into landscaping, design and gardening, and unlike Dick, she’s a former pro).
We’re glad you came by, and we’re just getting started, so we’d love to hear what you think.
— D. and V.