As I sit at the computer to write my feelings and reflections on what the close to thirty six years of a labor of love means to me I get overwhelmed by the sheer variety of products manufactured by the shop and myself. The shop succeeded in every way in its mission of meeting or exceeding our customers' expectations, with exceeding the expectations being the rule, not the exception. I can count on one hand in the thirty-plus years that a project left the shop that was not up