Mary Lee and I wish you all a very Happy, Healthy and Pros­per­ous New Year.… As we look back at 2009, we’re glad to see it end, it has been a very stress­ful, strange and sad time for us.  Busi­ness has been less than robust, but like many, we count our bless­ings that we are still here and work­ing.  The chal­lenges we faced were over­whelm­ing at times, but we shrugged them off and con­tin­ued to try to move for­ward every day.  Strange is the only way to explain the sit­u­a­tions we encoun­tered and had to endure through­out the year.  It is times like these that bring out the absolute best and worst in peo­ple, we were con­fronted with sit­u­a­tions from peo­ple that had no regard for any­one but them­selves and blind­sided by their sheer lack of com­pas­sion.  Then aided and com­forted by oth­ers whom we would never have imag­ined would pitch in and help.  Sad­ness was the main theme through­out the year as we both lost very close fam­ily mem­bers, which by itself is very dif­fi­cult, but also found our­selves in the posi­tions of being pri­mary care givers and hav­ing to watch them slip away on a daily basis, while still try­ing to main­tain our own lives in the lit­tle time that was left.  Thank God it is over.  We look for­ward to 2010 with renewed vigor and know that it only gets bet­ter from here.

The bright spot for me this year was the project car that inspired this site.  I am thank­ful that I had it to occupy some of my time and enable me to for­get things going on around me as I immersed myself in it.  We have made amaz­ing progress in a short period of time and very much look for­ward to cruis­ing in her this com­ing Sum­mer sea­son.  With only 10 days left before we move South for an extended break from every­thing here, lit­tle else will be accom­plished until we return some­time in March, but rest assured we will ramp it up dra­mat­i­cally when back.

For us, 2010 will see us trav­el­ing more than we nor­mally would as we try to make up for this past year.  We both agree that we deserve it and will use our time to max­i­mum advantage.

So much for the depress­ing stuff.…  These two denizens of the deep are about to take the plunge and will be the cen­ter­piece of our New Year’s cel­e­bra­tion start­ing tonight and con­tin­u­ing through out the weekend.

See ya next year!!!

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