Dog Days

We are in the dog days of summer. I love summer, I love the hot humid weather, I also love the periodic heavy summer thunder showers. We haven't had one for some time and we are due. Things are a little too dry for my liking. The last two weeks of August are the slowest of the year for business with the first two weeks of the new year coming in a close second. It's this time of year that Peggy and I always freak out looking at the dailies($$) thinking what's wrong, what happened. Then we get a hold of ourselves and remember it's the last two weeks of the summer. September comes, school begins, new staff and schedule and all cranks right back up again. It's always in the fall that I also think of new ideas, try new things. Through my life I always changed living situations in the fall, moved away, traveled. It still resonates in me. I have lots of ideas and really want to get them out so keep your eyes open things may start happening, time and money are my obstacles. My kids are getting older, moving on to bigger and better I can only hope, this is weird time in my life. We have been in business 15 years come this October 15th. We signed our lease, began work and opened the doors for day one December 29th 1995........Crazy!.......A guy came in the other day selling some kind of internet ad thing. I obliged his sales pitch and he asked me how long we have been in business. I said 15 years, he continued with his pitch. I politely moved him along and he said as he was leaving, he wished me success with my business. I chuckled, 15 years I would say we are established/successful(?). He won't be getting my business, not paying attention. So with September approaching I hope to bring all my Black Cow folk some new fresh ideas to carry us into the next 15 years.........xo