Tennis starts today and big Quality Corners news

This afternoon the kids will have their first tennis lesson.  We are excited about getting them started.  Like swimming, tennis can be a lifelong sport.  If they really like it, I might just have to get a racket and take some lessons myself.  The problem is that we are rapidly arriving at that awkward age where the kids will not be getting any very stiff competition from the old man.  Maybe I should just stick with the elliptical machine and concentrate on burying poor Bryan in our weight loss cage match.

It looks like our partner, Ron, won a big (big being a relative term for our quite small business) new account for Quality Corners this week.  He and Grandpa Milo are up in Washington today to meet with the buyer and work out all the details.  The meeting is right after lunch.  We really do not know how big it will be, but we do know that they have been selling our competitor’s products to many of the “big box” stores in the Western U.S. and all of Canada for many years.  I can hardly wait to hear how it goes.  Ron has a couple more big opportunities in various stages of the sales process.  With the downturn, we are going to have to have an aggressive sales effort just to stay where we were last year in terms of sales.  Ron is making a stellar effort to assure that happens.