I cannot believe I did not remember to write in my blog yesterday. That is the first day in a long, long time. Everything seems to be going well. The biggest new thing is that we got our biggest order ever at Quality Corners. One of our biggest customers has given us a verbal commitment for 63,000 rosettes per week. That is a lot of rosettes for us and we will have to run a couple of shifts. Hopefully, I will be able to add even more to that when the CNC router we ordered has arrived.
Kelly and Christian had their piano adjudication at the annual Fall Festival in Salem. It sounds like it went quite well. Mrs. Hickenlooper (Jill) said she saw that the ajudicator had given Christian and “excellent”. She did not see Kelly’s result, but Lorena said that the adjudicator singled her out for praise for the Sonatina she played. They are doing well and enjoying their playing very much. We enjoy it, too. I am going to try to get full video of their spring recital to share with whomever wants to see it.
If things keep going well with Quality Corners, I might be able to start thinking about the idea of heading down to Mexico for a year. It will really depend on whether I can start adding value to the business by making shaped rosettes, the level of orders stays up, and we can increase our profit margins a little. The thing I would really like to do is run the CNC equipment over here in Oregon for the time being until I can get to the point where I can work full time doing that. It might not take too long, the way we are going. That might allow us to go down to Mexico more regularly, too.