Hi Heads, We're celebrating around here. Tomorrow is our 25th wedding anniversary. Lynn and I got married on Saturday April 17th 1976 at 10 am. We went grocery shopping that afternoon. It was a small ceremony, just family. Lynn was divorced, my parents said it would never last. ( I think that was a plot, raised my stubborn streak when things got a little shaky in the early years) After 25 yrs Lynn is retiring and selling her Pre-school and coming to work for Bethel Hill Signs. This ought to be fun. I'll get to be the boss once in a while!! haha I hope. What a long strange wonderful road its been.
------------------ Bill Dirkes Bethel Hill Signs Butler, Ky. Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
Posted by Ricky Simpson (Member # 1318) on :
Bill....congratulations!
God Bless
------------------ Ricky Simpson Simpson Signs South Central VA, USA "railroader aspiring to be fulltime SignArtist."
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
congratulations !
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
Oh, for the faith of a spider! He begins his web without any thread.
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Congratulations from me too!
(sounds like the interviewing process for your new partner was in the making for 25 years! Now how could you find a better partner than that?)Good luck in years to come!
------------------ Deb Creative Signs "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Congratulations Bill & Lynn! And much happines as you begin to work together in the shop too.
For Janis & I (27th anniversary this June) the secret was to make it official and name her president of the companies we own. That way all decisions are made together as you shouldn't make decisions on your own without at least checking with the president of the company. As Janis was in charge of all things financial and I handled the creative stuff with her input of course this little change worked wonders as we worked together. It is a little thing that has changed my thinking process after working alone for many years. Good for my ego too! We now discuss everything properly and two heads are way better than one any day.
Works for us.
Congratulations on 25 years. May you have 25 more.
-dan
------------------ Dan Sawatzky Sawatzky's Imagination Corporation Cultus Lake , British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.ca
"Isn't it great to do what you love and love what you do!"
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
Congratulations Bill and Lynn and many more wonderful years to come!!!!!!!!!!
------------------ DrQuill - Mural Woman PEACE SIGNS logodesign2@icqmail.com Georgia, USA
[This message has been edited by Linda Silver Eagle (edited April 17, 2001).]
Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
CONGRATULATIONS BILL and LYNN!!!
I know what a road that can be as Dora and I will be 28 this June. Everyone said we would never last, and I always say we stayed together this long just to prove them wrong. heh heh
I wish you all the best as life partners, and now as office partners.
BTW... Thanks for the e-mail about Dad. Sounds like you and your Dad had one of those days like we used to have. Enjoy every minute you can with him.
------------------ Don Hulsey Strokes by DON signs Utica, KY 270-275-9552 sbdsigns@aol.com
I've always been crazy... but it's kept me from going insane.
Posted by Bill Dirkes (Member # 1000) on :
Thanks a bunch 'Heads! and thank you Steve & Barb for the e-mail "toast" We're having a quiet evening at home tonite. Saturday we're headed for Pompillio's Italian Restaurant for a stuff yourself feast courtesy of our daughter, Kim. ( If I eat too much, I'll have to susidize sp. her rent next month!) BTW Steve, ya skeered me with that picture. That was the grubby end of a grubby day when ya stopped in! Thanks for the advice, Dan. Lynn is incredibly organized, while I am scatter-shot. I'm looking forward to her help! I've made do on my own while she has been busy with her own business. Thanks again Y'all!
------------------ Bill Dirkes Bethel Hill Signs Butler, Ky. Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :
congrats bill and lynn!!! susan and I just celebrated our 18th.
That way all decisions are made together as you shouldn't make decisions on your own without at least checking with the president of the company. As Janis was in charge of all things financial and I handled the creative stuff with her input of course this little change worked wonders as we worked together. It is a little thing that has changed my thinking process after working alone for many years. Good for my ego too! 