Well, I never had a chance to do the final post for my week in Virginia. I finished the week with a call on a customer with an Amish furniture store in Farmville, VA. They really are into the traditional lace and do a good job with it. The buyer is willing to try a couple of our new US Made linens that are reversible to add to her lace assortment - I hope they are successful for her. I stopped into a local bakery to get a coffee for my trip through southern Virginia and on home and low and behold was a neat glass case full of classic lunchboxes where I found a lunchbox just like my first grade barn lunchbox. Wonder if that could be the one I had? I wanted to take US 15 through the backcountry and do a little prospecting on the way home. I found a nice herd of Bison in Red Oak, VA contentedly grazing and also an old general merchandise store, long closed down, with a 'Vendors Wanted' sign in the front - I am pretty sure this isn't a good match for us . . . I did stop in Clarksville, VA and spoke for a long while with a woman in a design and home decor store who may be interested in both our Heritage and Provinaire lines. I will have to go back for a presentation when her husband is in the store too. Overall it was a good week last week for learning, laying groundwork, starting relationships, finding potential new accounts and I even wrote a few orders. I am hopeful as the weather warms, store-keeper's wallets will thaw and they will have money to spend. Right now, more want to keep the money there, safe, or don't have any in the first place. But there is hope with these folks, that things will get better and people will once again shop. Buy local!!