Volume 7, Issue 36
December 26, 2007
In This Issue:
Holiday Reflections
Special on Best New Product of 2007
Holiday Season!
Holiday Reflections
It is the day after Christmas. I look out on Glen Lake from my In-Law's house. It is dead calm with low clouds rimming Alligator Hill; the top of the hill is above the cloud bank making it look like a mountain. I find myself reflecting on the past season.
Top 6 highlights of Christmas 2007
6. Our Cherry Republic gift exchange when the male staff discreetly rummaged around our offices and looked for things to wrap up. The women finally got tired of our thoughtless gifts and threatened to kick us out.
5. A Christmas Eve walk enjoying the quiet and lights around Glen Arbor. In a half hour, only two cars passed by.
4. On Christmas Eve: watching two female loons swim by the house and their mates swimming behind.
3. On Christmas afternoon: opening the store to get a last second gift for eight-month-old Kiera Bishop. The stereo was still playing holiday music and I took a minute to enjoy the empty store.
2. Steph and I presenting our moms with a reading by a psychic. They were so excited for something just fun and frivolous.
1. Our one-year-old eating stuffed mushrooms, sauteed shrimp, brie, and pate' on Christmas Eve. He finished it off with duck for Christmas day. Colebrook was just as proud as Daddy.
Special on Best New Product of 2007
The border of the Cherry Republic is a peaceful place, sans a few smugglers trying to bring the banned fruits into the Republic. When we take those banned fruits, we reintegrate them with cherries to create this sweet and salty mix. This product, the Confiscated Fruit Mix has been dubbed the winner for Best New Product of 2007. Enjoy these savings in the twilight of '07; normally $9.95, on special for $9.45.
Pits!
We continue to strike out on our worst product ever-- Chocolate Covered Cherry Pits. Even with our Christmas sale and a special card to go in the box, we still had no takers. I think many of you thought we were joking, but we were serious. When I invented this product, I thought it would be a great hit. Send it to the good people around you because it's chocolate. Send it to the bad people, because it's the pits. We had everything covered...
Bob Sutherland
President, Cherry Republic