Madame! The snow is falling and falling and falling. We have not had one customer in two days. We have sent our crew home two days in a row now. We are all aching from the need of work. We know the flood gates will open soon, as we get close to tax time, we get very busy. Can we hurry it up while we are still open?????

Not much crazy stuff going on these days to share.....The cars are coming out beautiful the Italian booths are worth what I spent on them. My corporate rep was here this week and gave us a few ideal to get more cars, but first they have to walk in the door! I called my largest used car lot and he told me he has not had a shipment of cars in two months. I do not know enough about Obama to blame him like everyone else is, so, I am holding tight and keeping faith in Our Lord. He did not bring us this far to fail now.

We awarded our employee of the month today. It was Greg the estimator. He was quite surprised. Now the pressure is on him. EVERYONE is looking to him to get the work in the shop.

I have been thinking for two days of buying a second shop. (If any of you are sane, shoot me!) There is one I know of for sale and I am not sure I really want another shop to compete with. It is a dump and would be a full renovation like this one was, but Hugh and I were not sure we were up to that so soon after this one. I shall continue to ruminate. Since I have no life, why not. It would just be less time between getting into bed and going to sleep. You know, that 15 minutes!

Lets all remember how hard it is on some of our brothers right now while we get annoyed at our bosses or jobs. I promise to share the next story I have that will make you laugh.

WAIT, WAIT! got one, I took a man home the other morning and he gave me $50.00 to give to Abby. He said two years ago, on December 30th, he gave a waitress a $20 tip and told her to go buy a lottery ticket. She won 1.6 million, so every December 30th he gives a gal a tip and tells her to go buy lottery tickets. This year it was Abby. She did exactly as she was told and won $2. She split it with him, and he promptly bought another with his one dollar. They have had a great laugh and a fun time buying lottery tickets. Who knows................

Lynn Moore