News

What some of you have read on MySpace and Amazon is true. I am sad to report that Darla no longer works for us. I won’t add much to what she wrote, other than it was very sudden and unexpected. One minute things were normal and the next they weren’t, and she was gone. It seems so strange that she is not coming through the door in the morning. We will all miss her, and that includes the dogs. Pip keeps walking down the hallway to her office to look for her, but she is not there. The thought that she will never be there again is a hard one. She wrote on her message that with the job ending so did the friendship, but that doesn’t have to be true on our part. I’m hoping that once feelings calm down that we can still be friends, but if not, then it is a double loss.

People have asked who will send out the LKH bits, well, eventually it will be a new employee. I have one scheduled to start on the 20th, as planned before all this happened, but I had to scramble around in the last twenty-four hours to find someone to take over the admin job on the forum, MySpace, etc . . . I’m not certain yet which of them will be doing the bits. I was planning a nice cheerful post about the person I hired on purpose,  but I’d rather wait and post it when I’m actually happy and not a little depressed about all this. The new hire is an artist so we’ll finally have our very own in house artist, who is also computer savvy. I don’t hire many people that aren’t able to do the computer stuff since it’s such a weak area for me, I need support staff. Darla, Jon, and I had talked about having an artist on-board for years, someone who was at our idea beck and call. Now, Darla will not be here to see it. Her departure may force me to use our newest person more for computers than I had planned, but the day to day maintenance will be the person I hired yesterday. Jon is doing the posting of the blog to the various sites, but the e-mails are going to pile up. We’ll give you a new e-mail address to mail to, when we have it all figured out. I’ll be having Jon bring people up to speed, and we might be able to get things moving this week sometime. I’ll let you know. I’m a little thrown, so please bear with me. I did not expect to be hiring a second new person in less than a week. It just didn’t cross my mind that it would be needed.

The merchandise will keep coming, give us a day or two and orders will be done. I’ve already put somebody on it here, who was helping Darla fill orders the last year, or so. So, business will continue. But we’re all sad here, regardless of how it happened, it is a loss. We wish Darla all the best, and hope for her future success.