On the production end of things: June is finished for the most
part. All that is left is prep and packaging for a few stragglers.
July was started on Monday, as far as production goes. The mats
are also mostly finished. Again, they will be waiting on prep and
packaging.
An aside note: Preparation involves cleaning, cutting, and
trimming the mats. This process can take some time. We don't use any
machinery to do this. In fact the only one that can do this process
is Jim. The man has the hands of a surgeon—or perhaps even better.
Each mat that you receive has been hand trimmed by him. I have never
met anyone else that can do what he does. (It is impossible for me to
do, due to an illness from childhood that left me with shaking
hands.) After the prep they are packaged and sent to the shipping
department, where I box them up.
Back to our update:
Most of July should be ready to go out by the end of the week and
the beginning of next. August production will be in full swing by the
weekend. As I recall August is a fairly large month. It most likely
will not be as quick a turn around as June and July. They had mostly
been finished when all hell broke loose back in November. September
through December purchases dropped four fold, so production on these
months should also be relatively quick. But I will revisit this in
the days to come.
To get this far we have used one quarter of the order of latex
that arrived last Friday.
I should be giving you another update at the end of the week.
Thanks again for your patience.
Best Always,
Kevin and Jim
