A year has passed.

It’s hard to get my head around, but I will have soon owned Llama Hardware for a year!

The first thing that needs to happen is that I need to thank my fantastic wife, Lynn for putting up with me for this first year. If it were not for her putting up with all my long hours, and sometimes short temper, this would have ended before it started!

While I have not added to the line as much as I wanted to, I have maintained the quality that Flaming Star and Llama Hardware is known for, and that is something to be proud of in today’s climate of instant gratification.

Things have changed a bit, but only in that my speed at producing the Flaming Star products has increased. My hours are no longer quite as long, (although I do hate to take weekends off when I have orders on the books), my temper is no longer short and I’m really settling in to the process.

Second is I need to thank all you, my customers for all the purchases you have made over the last year. Thank you! Without you, I would not be where I’m at now and could not have visions of where I want to be a year from now. While I did about the same in business as Barb did in the last couple of years, I did not do the amount she did the few years previous.

To make that happen I must as for your help. Please pass word along to everyone you know, even if they are not llama owners, you never know if some of their friends might be llama owners, or friends of their friends, etc… the say word-of-mouth is one of the best advertising methods around and I hope that saying goes along with FB and with all of you helping me I can increase this coming years sales.

I Will make time to add in some new products over the next year now that I’m getting faster at the products I already make.

Again, thanks to all of you for helping me realize one of my dreams!