2020 Shareholders Report

10 Years shareholders, it’s been 10 years.

When my co executive and I decided that we wanted to send out a report on the last 10 years' activities of the corporation that you invested in back on September 18th 2010, the idea seemed too big for a boutique firm like ours to handle. Many meetings, over video and in person, were held to ensure that the major milestones were acknowledged, and inventories taken.

Over the course of this after action, many events that had drifted out of memory were rediscovered and the items that were taken for granted were shown to have much more dramatic effects than we had previously thought. Slowly, we came to the realization that doing a tongue-in-cheek ‘Shareholder’s Report” was not the best way to repay you, our friends and family, for bearing witness to our commitment so long ago. But rather we decided to give you an unvarnished, non-satirical look at some of the biggest and best moments of our first decade together. Things we have done and ways we’ve grown. It is our hope that we have lived up to the expectations that you placed on us and that by combining our lives we have become better people and a positive influence in the world we all share.

I like lists, so here you go, in no particular order…

• We started raising chickens and keeping bees. We sell both eggs and honey in our neighborhood
• We remodeled the dining room and kitchen, creating a pass thru bar
• We finished a documentary called The Booker which screened at the Atlanta Film Fest among others
• We got out of debt!
• We bought a hybrid car
• We stated making wine, pretty good at it now
• We closed Studio 5
• We added a 400 million year old fossil to our collection of artifacts
• We became a godparent (again)
• We sold the process serving company
• We started a new career in renewable energy
• We traveled to Italy, New Zealand (twice), China, Ecuador, Belize, Panama, St John, Argentina, Iceland, Aruba, Chile, Canada and criss-crossed the US.
• We went to college, got our GED, and a degree in welding
• Celebrated 50 years of marriage by one parent company and 45 by the other
• We started investing in stocks and bonds
• We became a vice president
• We went to a coding academy
• We put solar panels on our home
• We rode the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon for a week
• We sponsored 2 children in Mexico from 8 to 18 and are on our second set of kids now
• We started taking piano lessons
• We contributed to our neighborhood and watched it finally become the place we wanted to live
• We joined a rowing team
• We got tattoos
• We went paragliding and parasailing
• We rebuilt our front porch
• We became a cross fitter
• We grew vegetables of all shapes and sizes
• We learned that we can be quiet and still
• We released a new record
• We raced numerous regattas and placed 2nd at Worlds
• We went to a lot of weddings and became shareholders in other companies
• We lost loved ones and found new loved ones
• We bought a boat
• We flew a plane
• We hosted a stranger in our home on Christmas Eve and he later sent us the money we needed to buy a kiln
• We threw some awesome parties and had many celebrations
• We went “over the hill”
• We created art and built furniture for our home
• We shared our home with 5 wonderful cats (at different times)
• We realized that being charitable is a growth strategy
• Many drinks were had, and meals enjoyed
and we thank you for being a part of our lives

Year Over Year Results